Marc Perkel Rantz

Web Server for Sale

I just upgraded my web server and selling my old one. This computer was in perfect working order when I took it offline on 02-12-2003. Its 14 months old - homemade by me - and was serving 1.5 million hits a day (Running Linux) when it needed to be upgraded.

Like selling an old friend.

It's a 2U box - Pentuim 4 processor at 2.4ghz. Has one gig of ram. ntel motherboard. Gig Ethernet. and a pair of Western Digital 7200 RPM 8mb buffer drives. CD and Floppy built in.

Its a good strong computer. It was running Radhat Fedora Linux with a custom 2.6.2 kernel. You can install anything you want.

I'm located in San Bruno and can deliver it anywhere in the bay area. If you need to I can - for a fee - set it up for you and install it in a server farm somewhere. This is what I do for a living so a home made server built by me is built right. 30 day warranty.

I'm in the San Francisco area and prefer to sell it locally.

Spam Free Email Hosting

I'm in the process of developing my Spam Free Email Hosting site. As many of you know - I have a small hosting company called Computer Tyme Hosting. I've developed on of the most advanced spam filters on the planet and I'm ready to start making a few bucks off of it.

My new web server is ONLINE!

My new web server is now online. The old server was just barely keeping up as I am now pulling 2 million hits a day. The new box is kick ass! Its a Dual Xeon system with 4 gigs of ram - and a pair of 250 gig Serial ATA Hard Drives - Western Digital 7200rpm with 8mb buffer. 500 watt power supply is driving this baby! It has 2 ethernet ports. One is a gigabit port. Using a Supermocro motherboard.

I'm running Radhat Linux Fedora on it and a custom built Linux 2.6 Kernel. Large buffers allocated to MySQL and plenty of Apache servers waiting for requests that sometime run 40 per second during the peak times.

This new server is especially designed to GET RID OF BUSH! Its part of my "No Anti-Bush site left behind" policy. If you know of any anti-bush sites that are having trouble paying their hosting costs, send them my way and I'll make sure they stay online. More pics of this server can be found at This Location.

My old server is for sale if anyone wants it. Its in real good shape. Its a 2U box with a 2.4 ghz Pentium 4, 1gb ram, and a pair of Western Digital 160gb drives. Its got plenty of horsepower if you're running under a million hits a day. $1200 takes it. marc@perkel.com

Serious Microsoft Security Flaw

Virus Warning for Windows Users - Very Serious

Microsoft has yet another very serious security flaw that gives anyone with the right know how total access to your computer. I don't know all the details - but it might be the biggest one yet. If you remember the SoBig and Code Red viruses last fall - this one will similar in that it doesn't require you to get email for you to be attacked or hacked. Your computer can be hacked into and viruses installed without you doing anything to cause it to happen.

I say "will be" because right now there is no virus - yet. But the flaw is there and it will be a matter of days before someone writes a virus to take advantage of the flaw. And - your anti-virus software will have no effect. Microsoft has posted a patch and that is how you protect yourself - download and install that patch.

Here's the link to Microsoft's Windows Update:

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

You must use Microsort Explorer to install it.

I am also asking that those of you who have blogs and newsletters and high traffic web sites post this warning on your front page and include it in your newsletters. The best defense to this virus is to stop it before it begins. As you all know - this virus will affect non-windows users in that the new viruses turn windows computer into spam robots and we are still getting the bounce messages from the last virus. Let's see if we can stop this before it starts by first - patch your computer now - then - tell everyone to patch theirs. You can cut and paste this warning into your blog or newsletter.