Stéphane Lee

I have more than a couple servers and use more than a couple of megabits (less than tplus main pipe, but certainly more than the cybertower). The hosting bill is therefore not a couple hundred of dollars. For months, I’ve been thinking how to rationalize this and cut back the costs. On the other hands, with more visitors coming, there is a need for more powerful servers. Specifically, I want to boost the performance of two big sites. I find they have become too slow to my taste. As a rule of thumb, if you need more power, you should go with colocation (you buy your own hardware). For more bandwidth, rent a dedicated server. But with more power and bandwidth needed, how do be solve this?

In case you did not know

• Think Mauritius launched
• Kot Zot: Kot toi? (MrJ says: Kot zot? Moi mo dan mo linze)
• Moris.Net revamped: Are you in yet?
• Radio Moris: 3 years old in August

I have been following the news about Pas Bliye Nou Rasinn symposium. I must say that I fear that it is all about blabla and not actions. I agree that there is a time to discuss but concrete action plans is better. What are the next steps? Where do we go from here?

The Mauritian Diaspora is helping in its way the Mauritian economy while being abroad: sending money to their families back home, local tourism industry (hotels, Air Mauritius…), telecommunications (calls to Mauritius, Internet access subscriptions)… The Internet has been a great way to gather the Diaspora together. Ten years ago, there was not that much information available. Today, for example, you can know that there will a mass for Père Laval next month in Montreal through AQIM (Association Québec-Ile Maurice) website.

I have a domain name that has been wiped from the main index and gone in the supplemental index for over a week now. There have been numerous reports about other websites being yanked. Google, get you act together with your bigdaddy thing now!

Cyberspace: Did you know that this word has been coined by famous sci-fi author, William Gibson?

“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts…A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the non-space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding…”
–William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)

I read this book some couple years ago. It’s a classic scifi book to read.