Category: Sysadmin

System administration is a special are of IT. It also has a special place in my heart. It is an interesting mixture of all the other disciplines, both common across the whole industry, and at the same time unique for each person, company, and geographical location. When I have something to say or share about system administration, I use this category.

HostGator.com website hosting for $0.01

This is not something that I personally need, as I have a dedicated server from RapidSwitch for all my hosting needs, but the offer still looks quite good for those cases when you need quick and simple web hosting for a site or two.  I clicked through the Google ads to check it out and its true – HostGator.com offers a website hosting (not to be confused with VPS), for only 1 cent per month.

HostGator.com : $0.01 website hosting

 

This is not bad at all for the unlimited disk space and bandwidth.  And just in case you don’t trust them with your penny, they promise a 45 day money back guarantee.

rm -rf / horror stories

Someone asked Quora community to share the craziest “rm -rf /” stories.   There are quite a few good ones, including this video from Pixar about Toy Story 2 almost not happening.

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