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I’ve been working on re-designing UzziSoft. I’ve found a nice design layout and have been working on changing most pages to the design. I hope you all think it’s better than the old design :P. The new design is up.

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The Random Sig Script Large Sigs redirection is now active. All requests will go to www.uzzisoft.net/randomsigscriptlargesigs.
I think that’s about all the redirections I need to make before moving the whole domain over to Dreamhost which won’t be for a few months.

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I’ve been looking at lots of userbars around so I decided to make one for UzziSoft. There are three UzziSoft userbars available below.

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As I knew there would be some missing MySQL entries and files which I didn’t transfer. Looking through the analog 6.0 stats helped find them. Only 5 jpeg files missing with some directories missing as well. Luckly they are all fixed now.

#reqs    file
390    /randomsigscript/m.jpeg
220    /randomsigscript/faint.jpeg
63    /randomsigscript/Sengoku.jpeg
46    /randomsigscript/pioner7.jpeg
19    /randomsigscript/dustin.jpeg

Well that was quite easy. Just edited the .htaccess file in the randomsigscript/ folder and added this line:
Redirect / http://www.uzzisoft.net/

And now all requests redirect to www.uzzisoft.net.
It was that simple 🙂

After deciding it was time to test moving all the directories, files and MySQL Database of the Random Sig Script from UzziSoft.com to UzziSoft.net I went to work on backing up the folders and files from FTP.

It took a very long time, mainly because of all the FTP connection timeouts I was getting and all the names which contained symbols that made them not copy over. So after about 2 hours I managed to get most of all the directories and files. Next it was a simple PHP MyAdmin Export Database procedure and I was done.

Things were going fine so far until that is I decided, hey instead of uploading all these files and folders, I can .tar.gz them and upload that file onto the DreamHost server and un gzip and tar from there (if you don’t know DreamHost give you ssh access). After uploading the .tar.gz file and extracting all the files I thought everything would be fine. But I didn’t expect there to be just files and no folders. Turns out that no directories were created and all the files were just dumped into the main randomsigscript/ directory.

I was in trouble. I’d either have to remove each file by FTP or do a rm *. I choose the rm * option and then had to quickly restore the users who were using the UzziSoft.net’s jpeg files (only 4). Lesson learned, don’t use .tar.gz again without knowing that the directories are included.

Now I’ve just .zip’ed up all the files instead since I know that works and have extracted the zip file. Directories were created, woo.

Last thing to do was grab the .sql file from the backup and upload that to the server and that was that! All users Random Sig Scripts should now also work from www.uzzisoft.net.

Next step is to redirect all the randomsigscript directory requests from UzziSoft.com to UzziSoft.net which I’ll work on later.

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I’ve decided to change most of the UzziSoft font from white to greyish, so that it doesn’t look too bright to read. I’m hoping to change the text colour in the Random Sig Script some time later this week.

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As you may or may not know, we recently started mirroring several site downloads such as www.autopatcher.com since we are hosting www.uzzisoft.net on another webhost (Dreamhost) and we are allowed 1 TB in bandwidth transfer.

There were some unusually large requests by a few IP address which ended up taking 285.57 gigabytes on the 12th, 73.27 gigabytes on the 13th and 223.93 gigabytes on the 14th. After that I had enough and decided to remove the entire mirrors directory to get rid of these ‘download abusers’.

Right now UzziSoft.net has done 870 GB out of 1024 GB. I’ve re-enabled the mirrors directory but only allowing the autopatcher folder to be accessed and only files under 30 MB can be downloaded. I might think about re-adding the other files next month.

Stats from analog 6.0

time                                     #reqs  #pages
Apr/12/06 4:00 AM– 5:00 AM 1160   1139

#reqs %bytes  host
1326  56.76%  202.179.28.225
771    33.49%  202.5.194.25

#reqs  file
1523   AutoPatcher_x64_Beta_Mar2006_Full.exe
889     AutoPatcher_x64_Beta_Feb2006_Full.exe

time                                       #reqs  #pages
Apr/14/06 7:00 PM– 8:00 PM    1485   1456
Apr/14/06 10:00 PM–11:00 PM 1451   1330
Apr/14/06 11:00 PM–12:00 AM 1178   1128

#reqs  %bytes  host
5178   20.13%  83.142.17.99

#reqs  file
1661   AutoPatcher_x64_Beta_Mar2006_Full.exe

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