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Welcome To The New Server

written by John Chow on May 5, 2007

How one lazy bum made $176,697.50

If you’re reading this, you’re on the new John Chow dot Com server. I’ve decided it was time to move the blog to its own dedicated box. Before, the blog was hosted for free on The TechZone servers.

The new server was supplied and set up by my good friends at BlueFur.com. The blog is now hosted on a BlueFur Xlite package, a nice little 3GHz Celeron server with 512 MB of RAM and an 80 GB IDE hard drive. It’s no where near as powerful of the Dual Xeon, 4 GB RAM, SCSI 320 monsters that powers TTZ but it’s more than powerful enough to handle the traffic of this blog.

I like to thank Gary of BlueFur for helping me move the site and database over to the new box. If you are in need of some high quality web hosting, give BlueFur a shout. Use the coupon code JohnChowRocks for 15% off all services.

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Bob

For all the Linux Lovers in this thread, can you Digg This? An article on how Linux fanboys seem to bash everything non Linux :)

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TeamTutorials

Same with all other fanboys

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Bill

I'm looking at switching to Bluefur in the next few days, but I can't get John's promotional code to work..is it working for anyone else?

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Gary Jones

I just tested it and it works here.

johnchowrocks

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Bill

Thanks..it works for me now... :oops:

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uncle sha

the 'move' worked out fine eh ... i didn't notice the difference. everything seems fine

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fivecentnickel.com

$170/month seems a bit spendy for that setup. I'm also curious as to why the TechZone servers couldn't handle a site like this. Presumably this was more about creating a marketing opportunity than any real need for dedicated hosting? Maybe it went something like this...

BlueFur: "Hey John, we can hook you up with a free server if you pimp our service for us."

John: "Sure, but you'll have to throw in something more to sweeten it a bit. How about a discount code that gives me a referral kickback?"

BlueFur: "Done."

Is that about right? I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it. Just curious.

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John Chow

The referral code has been around for months. I don't make any kickback on it. The main reason moving the blog to its own box was security. The TTZ server the blog was on before housed other blogs/sites and I want to separate this blog to its own box.

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Henry The Webdeveloper

There're Virtual Private / Dedicated Servers around - cheaper and still pretty secure solution.
Anyways now you have no choice but monetize your's dedicated one))) Good luck.

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fivecentnickel.com

Interesting. Security for the TTZ-related stuff or for JohnChow.com?

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John Chow

For both. It's just easier from a security standpoint to have only one site per server.

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Law of Attraction

Congrats John....You are equipped to handle traffic to generate $100k/month

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Everyday Weekender

$100K/month.. thats what i make.. John can't catch me :twisted:

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Law of Attraction

Weekender...you should start publishing your secrets of making $100k/month...and give johhn some competition:)

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ww-success

Anyone has any experience with Yahoo web hosting?

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Law of Attraction

yes i have tried yahoo web hosting...I would suggest going to godaddy or bluefur

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Marc

It is good to hear positive things about blue fur. I like the idea of supporting a Canadian company and my current host has been rather ho-hum and hasn't really been there when I had questions. That being said, my sites have been working fine off of them for a long time, hence I've no urgency to move at the moment. But I will keep blue fur in mind moving forward.

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Cheap Custom Content

Yeah, it's always good to have a contingency, you know, just in case.

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Best CD Rates

I think you should switch kumiko...

it adds a layer of legitimacy IMO when someone has their own domain name. :razz:

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Marc

Yeah but if she's harvesting in the money anyways does it really matter? At this point she'd temporarily lose a lot by switching in terms search engine rankings.

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Henry The Webdeveloper

I definitely luv BlueFur logo. Looks like they'll raise a bit of cash from this post.

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ricdes

Hey John, what kind of Webserver did you chose? Apache or some MS stuff?

greets from switzerland.

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Linux operating system

If he wants a real "pro" server should get Linux. :smile:

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John Chow

Not only is it Linux, it's Red Hat. :twisted:

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Johan Cyprich

I noticed on BlueFur that you have the option of RedHat 9 and Fedora Core. I hope you picked Fedora. I don't want to start a huge Linux war here, but Fedora 6 is the greatest Linux ever. :grin:

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John Chow

I went with the industry standard - Red Hat. Everything else is just a copy. :)

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Secure Hosting

John, Redhat 9? That of end-of-life several years ago, which means there are no more patches for it. What is your plan to update the OS when there is a security issue? RHEL 4 would have been your best choice is OS. You might want to consider switching.

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Johan Cyprich

I'm not sure if RedHat still supports RH9. I wouldn't want to buy RHEL so I use Fedora, which is a RedHat product anyways. RH9 is the last free version of RedHat.

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Entrepreneur

And how, Linux is the only way to go with web hosting :)

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Chris

I was wondering when you were going to buy a dedicated server for your blog. Because it’s a real inconvenience :mrgreen: everytime the site is down and the in past few months I can recall the site being down 3 or 4 times.

Great decision John !

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MUbin

I think that had to do with hackers and not actually from downtime.

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MUbin

Next Competition. Free hosting from John CHOW! Im sure you could afford to host some blogs on your dedicated eh John?

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Chicago 2016

Geez, I wish I had the need for my own server.

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MillionDollarJourney.com

Why did you switch from your TTZ servers to a slower server? Was JohnChow.com slowing down TTZ?

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think

It is still as slow as before...

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Everyday Weekender

not true at all.. whats with all the haters.

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More than Everything

Well, now that you have a dedicated box, you're easily going to survive the delicious submissions and teh traffic :) No downtime means more money, and I think that's what this blog's mostly about. Keep on the good work.

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Entrepreneur

Yes, a dedicated box definately gives you room to grow!

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OnlineCashFlow

New server is running great! Been re-reading some of the older posts and the content is golden as always.

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bwb

If you get a chance maybe you could leave a review of the hosting you are getting from bluefur?

http://www.webhostingunleashed.com/bluefur

Direct Submit Review Link:
http://www.webhostingunleashed.com/rank.php?host=1...

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Start A Website

Must be nice to have a server for just a blog!

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Linux operating system

Specially if you can afford it!

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Cheap Custom Content

Does your coupon code have an expiration, John?

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BlueFur Promo

If John's promo code expires you can find up-to-date promo codes for BlueFur Hosting at http://bluefur.promo-code.net/.

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Matt

Gary spells him name with 1 "R", not 2. :P

Yes, BlueFur is a great host. Highly recommended to anyone who demands quality. :)

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Secure Hosting

They are offering a 99% uptime SLA on their hosting. Do you understand that this is *3 days* of down time per month?

I am very surprised that the evil John Chow have moved his hosting to a solution like this. Celeron CPU server and 99% SLA ... hmm.

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Cheap Custom Content

I believe Ed Lau has been using it for a while now and he seems happy with it.

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