Matt "Rossie" Rose (Pyroskankic.DrQue.net) thought me a little about CSS and some things I can do to bring out the look in the Story Board.  It's been on my list of things to do, so I'm pleased.  Rossie has gone to school for web design and he knows a good deal about putting together sites.  Thankx Rossie! 
    Together with our good friend Zen, Rossie's latest project has been BananaFunk.com and it looks pretty good.  We've discussed using my story board script for BananaFunk.

    Sitting at 90,000 hits for this month-- not too bad for the halfway mark :)  For some reason, traffic has increased noticeably in the last week or two.  We went from just over 4,000 hits a day to over 5,000 hits a day.  We're not sure why all of a sudden, but it's interesting.
    I went and added individual log files for each of the virtual hosts on DrQue.net, which includes some 20 or so sub-domains and 4 root domains (DrQue.net, Phucker.com, MMSof.com and Pluvius.net).  We had added a log for the King's Quest walkthrough earlier and discovered it accounts for around 50% of all the traffic on our site-- partly because it is a larger site (i.e. a good deal of pages involved).  It also generates a large number of unique visitors.  Some other areas of our site draw more return traffic.

    The Green Dragon got some runtime today.  It's been one of the first days cool enough to boot this dude.  We did a lot of playing around on the experimental Linux box.  Learned how to use NFS so the Green and White Dragon could talk; got Samba working so the box talked to most of the network; and started to build Apache.  The original idea was to have the Green Dragon take the job of a backup server.  We've had some things we want to experiment with on the White Dragon, and the non-Linux machines don't do a great job of being a backup server-- no dynamic content.  Unfortunately, we realized a little latter the Green Dragon has a 1.5 gig hard drive, 200 megs of which were free.  Presently, DrQue.net's public side is sitting at a cool 1.5 gigs.  The Green Dragon just isn't going to work as a backup box.
    Parted out is a donation from our good friend Pluvius-- an AMD 400MHz motherboard with RAM.  He have a power supply and hard drive to go with him, but lack a case.  We're thinking this may become an other Dragon in the near future, and become the officinal backup box.

    Although not quite finished, the simi-functional Story Board script is running on DrQue.net.  This will be a place I post a bunch of my own work, as well as allow people from all over the web to post as well.  The script is my latest creation in PHP/MySQL.  I'm pleased thus far with the table layout and how the script allows itself to be embedded in a layout template.  More work is needed to complete the script, but the story core components are there.

    Worked on the Secure.DrQue.net.  It the moment, it's just a script to display some information about the encrypted connection used to secure the page.
    Worked on creating new certificates to get rid of the error specifying the certificate didn't belong to the sub domain.  Initially, I created separate certificates for each sub domain to be encrypted.  However, it isn't possible to run multiple domains on the same port with the same IP address.  The problem is, you have to do the encryption before information about the page request is sent.  So, we made one certificate with the assigned domain "*.drque.net", which serves for all sub domains.

    Playing around with Cron, I created some scripts that will back some of DrQue.net's vitals, such as the config file, databases and even the log files.  We regularly symphonize the Iron Dragon (the laptop) to mirror the webpage directory.  But since the addition of dynamic content, some of the data needed to have a complete backup of the website wasn't included.
    We made a shell script to archive (tar) and compress (gzip) data and place it in a directory inside the website directory structure.  Naturally then, when we symphonize with the Iron Dragon, these backups will be included.  Then, we setup Cron to call this script once a day.
    We also had Cron run Webalizer which generates statistical information about the usage of the site.  After the minor disaster on 8-23, we lost out log file (silly me forgot to copy that-- although it was on the list of things to copy!!).  However, Webalizer was able to continue it's incremental session and still give stats for the month of August :)  Good program Webalizer.

    The White-Dragon's time is now synchronized to the atomic clock.  We had been doing this on all the machines here for quite awhile, but we just figured out how to get a SuSE Linux to do it.  Using Cron and a simple shell script, we now have the White-Dragon synchronizing with the atomic clock.

    A strange annoying disaster takes down the White Dragon (operator error).  DrQue.net switches over to the Azure Dragon with all dynamic content dead.  Basically, something got screwed up on the White Dragon.  We decided to had to do a reset, but the system wouldn't come back-- it's just hang during the boot process.  Basically, we ended up having to reinstall everything.  Took about 4 hours, but everything is back and functioning.  We're going to have to look into have to recover from these types of crashes with something other than full reinstalls.

    We finally finished a script long in the working for the member's area.  It includes a secure login system and provides a database for hundreds of thousands of files.  Searching, sorting and downloading was all incorporated into the script.  Unfortunately, none of this is visible to the public.

    Statistics for the month of July are in with a grand total of 145,211 hits for the month.

DrQue.net daily averages Hits/day 4,684.23 Byte/day 96,755,877.16 Visitors/day 157.39

Our busyest day last month was the 28th where we received 11,438 hits.  On the 20th, we sent out 957,045,760 bytes. Have a look at the graphs