technology IT Thread

[Kaneki 1,073]

Anyone here big into IT stuff (servers, networking, etc)?

 

I am.

 

For example, I am making an uptime checking website that checks from 2 locations in the USA and 1 location in Germany. If you want to see it, go to http://www.cloudystatus.com/main/. It's powered totally off of OpenVZ-powered VPS servers, and is free to use. Speaking of that, what's your favorite virtualization technology (VMWare, VirtualBox, OpenVZ, Xen, KVM, etc)?

[Planty 1,053]

Wow that site is cool

 

I'm kind of into IT a bit, I make my own pc's (thought admittedly I get some help from others although I could do it myself) and I'm currently in the process of getting parts for a new one !

 

Can i just ask, how did you get into IT?

Edited March 30, 2013 by Happy Plant

[Kaneki 1,073]

  On 2013-03-30 at 3:46 PM, Happy Plant said:

Wow that site is cool

 

I'm kind of into IT a bit, I make my own pc's (thought admittedly I get some help from others although I could do it myself) and I'm currently in the process of getting parts for a new one !

 

Can i just ask, how did you get into IT?

 

I've been a computer guy all my life, but I got into it more when I bought a VPS from a company known as Ubiquity Servers, and man was it expensive ($19/mo), but I loved it.

[~Chaotic Eddie~ 479]

I'm intending to build my own PC once I get into college, as a little side project. Budget £1k, pretty much 100% of which is coming out of my life-savings.

[Kaneki 1,073]

  On 2013-03-30 at 5:54 PM, Otakulord Rainbow Izumi said:

I'm intending to build my own PC once I get into college, as a little side project. Budget £1k, pretty much 100% of which is coming out of my life-savings.

 

My budget for CloudyStatus is around $100 a year predicted. I currently pay $5 for a VPS in Atlanta, $2 to 7 for a VPS in Phoenix (unknown price yet), and 2 Euros for a VPS in Germany.

 

The budget is that high incase of bandwidth overages (since the VPSes are limited to 1TB or more monthly bandwidth), new servers, and/or other updates

[~Princess Luna~ 31]

I in to IT stuff in fact I have a swap server on my lap top and other nerd stuff

I'm on my tablet right now, and I really don't see topics like this on any kind of forum accept for the tech ones

 

_anyway glad to meet you

[Kapi 215]

I'm into IT stuff...

I've built computers, servers, and many other things. I was in a Computer Maintenance class during my last two years of high school, and was an intern in the Lutron Electronics IT department for 2 years.

I mostly enjoy working on the software side of things though. Typically, computer hardware is pretty cross compatible (Like, I can remove the graphics card from my computer and put it in the one in the living room easily, and I'm saying that within reason of course--DDR2 memory doesn't fit in a DDR1 slot, and isn't compatible.) but software can be a real pain to work with. I enjoy solving compatibility problems because it feels good.

 

I've fried several computers in my life, and am mostly self-taught, and I do repairs for friends and co-workers for pretty decent rates--nothing at all, I just ask to get paid back for parts, I ask them to pay me what they feel the service is worth, it helps to build a portfolio and references!