The contact page system was revised to use PHP.  It makes it much easier to display errors and also gives you the option to post your message using SSL encryption.  I still had to use CGI to send the e-mail.  PHP has e-mail stuff built in, but I couldn't get it working.  It's okay though, the CGI system still works fine.

    This June 3rd makes Andrew Que quarter century.

    Over 98,000 hits in May... not bad.  Have a look.

    The setup of MySQL went smooth.  PHP took a bit to get it into Apache, but both are now running on the White Dragon.  Our by line now read: "Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.3.2 mod_ssl/2.8.14 OpenSSL/0.9.6a".

    Today we dug into PHP and MySQL again and produced some PHP file to take over the Garage profiles pages.  We had spent a day or two working with MySQL before this, learning the basics of SQL commands.  Now, we work on the PHP side and created a script that basically allows entries to be viewed, added, edited and removed from the database.  And wow, how easy.  Quite painless.  But then again, getting information in and out of a database should be no problem for MySQL!  Hey, we did it though.
    The test server runs on the Black Dragon, using MySQL 4.0.3, PHP 4.3.1 and BRS WebWeaver.  We proxyed it with the White Dragon at Test1.DrQue.net.  So far, everything looks good.
    Our next task will be installing these system on the White Dragon.  That means the MySQL, PHP and the Apache Mod.

    Well, with the Linux server up and running the web side of life, we've been working on web sites more then the server side of life.  We've written a few CGI script for some of our website's, including a "wall" (super quick guestbook), a simple guest book and some photo gallery scripts (of various flavors).  With that happening, we haven't done too much with the server hardware-- the Linux box "just works" for now.  He serves web pages, has network access, and that's good enough for now.  We've got more things to do on that server, but it'll happen when it happens :)
Stuff we've worked on this month:
   DrQue.net - E-mail script on contact page
   Dencker.DrQue.net - E-mail script on contact page, added more music and picture changes
   Crystal.Phucker.com - Tons of work.  This site basically just came to life.
   Garage.Phucker.com - Added picture gallery script and more cleanup
   PHP and MySQL work - We've been trying to learn PHP and MySQL in hopes of adding some really cool database image gallerys to our websites.

   Our ISP, TDS metrocom, when down for 3 hours at starting about 11:30pm yesterday.  It was probably due to the fairly strong electrical storm we were having.  This is the first bit of down time we've had in probably 8 months, so we're not complaining.  Everything is back and running prime again.

DrQue.net daily averages Hits/day 1,083.29 Byte/day 40,188,673.96 Visitors/day 46.55

DrQue.net monthly averages Hits/month 32,498.64 Byte/month 1,205,660,218 Visitors/month 1,396.52

Data previously posted was inaccurate.  The averages are forward weighted, meaning data from more recent months have more effect on the results.

The White Dragon-- SuSE Linux and Apache

    At long last, we have moved onto a Linux platform.  The White Dragon ported to SuSE 7.3 in March, 2003 and now has reached a point where it can take over webserving functions.
    It was a longer road than expected.  We encountered what may very well be a bug in Apache 2 that prevented us from performing host name lookups in the log file.  This made thing undesirable for our console monitoring, which watches a log file.  Unresolved IPs don't tell you much just looking at them.

DrQue.net takes on hosting for MMSof.com and Pluvius.net.  MMSof.com is home of Master Minds Software-- the long time project of Andrew Que and Tyson Mohr.  Although a bit dormant, Master Minds will one day create some killer software :)
    Pluvius.net is home of Tyson "Pluvius" Mohr.  He has tempoarly moved Pluvius.net to our server while he is moving.  Pluvius.net was once the domain DrQue.net used, so it seems we have come full circle :)