Goals for 2010

Task	Status One-liner
Build & Configure Primary VPS	“There's light at the end of the tunnel”
Progress	Deadline
	Soon

• Setup Rootkit Hunter
• Setup logwatch
• Setup Fail2Ban
• Setup batch job for mysqltuner
• Convert 4G Blacklist for use in Nginx ¹⁾
• Move Compression directives in individual Apache VHosts to the Apache config
• Hacks from perishable press's stupid htaccess tricks as applicable

Task	Status One-liner
Build & Configure Secondary VPS	“The quest for perfection never ends”
Progress	Deadline
	Soon

• Add 4G Blacklist to Apache config
• Add Compression directives to Apache server config to try & reduce the load

Task	Status One-liner
VPS Status & Monitoring	“Oh god, where do I begin?”
Progress	Deadline
	In the next few months

• Setup Monit for Primary VPS to cover BIND9, Apache, Nginx, ProFTPd, Postfix
• Setup Monit for Primary VPS to cover Apache, ProFTPd, Postfix, rTorrent, SABNZBd+
• Setup Munin-node on Primary to cover BIND9, Apache, Nginx, ProFTPd, Postfix
• Setup Munin-node on Secondary VPS to Apache, Nginx, ProFTPd, Postfix
• Setup Munin-server on Desktop
• Rsync logs from Primary & Secondary VPS to Desktop ²⁾
• Migrate AWStats jobs from Primary & Secondary VPS to Desktop
• Setup SSH Tunnels from Desktop to Primary/Secondary for Monit

Task	Status One-liner
Migrate balaji-dutt.name
Progress	Deadline
	22/Oct/2010

• Sign up for Cloudfront Account
• Create GLUE record for ns1.balaji-dutt.name
• Add DB for balaji-dutt.name to BIND9
  • Add CNAMEs for Cloudfront?
  • Move domain root first
  • Primary FTP next Creating an A record for FTP IP will mean exposing the IP publicly
  • How to handle Blog & Linkblog FTP Accounts? CNAME's pointing to Primary FTP? Or just rely on chrooted accounts logging into Primary FTP?
  • Blog Testbed to check
    1. If Chrooting the webserver user in PHP FPM, will a softlink to /etc/wordpress/wp-config.php inside the chroot directory suffice?
    2. Plugin install via WebUI
    3. Nginx to server wp-admin static content
    4. PHP APC filtering out specific wp-admin pages
    5. W3 Total Cache
    6. Relevant fixes from persihable press's stupid wordpress attacks
  • Linkblog
    • Update colophon page after the move
    • Add in fixes from various securing wordpress links
  • Blog
    • Take a good long look at the plugins
    • Update colophon page after the move
    • Add in fixes from various securing wordpress links

• Fix mouse in debian vmware (Link)
• Fix vesion info leakage for PHP5.3 from dotdeb (Link)

Get back to reading feeds & posting to linkblog

Finish processing Bali set

• Setup rsnapshot of VPS to Home PC
• Switch to Linux exclusively for couch computing
  • Will StarHub stop dicking around with entry-level broadband customers and give another netbook for returning customers?
  • Migrate to a cross-OS password manager / form filler
• All IRC<->Twitter Bridges rely on Basic Auth for Twitter, which will stop working soon. Hack on one of the scripts to use OAuth instead and maybe add in publishing timeline to the channel
• Get my Game Collector DB upto-date and post the entire collection online
• Get started on the Movie Collector DB and post the collection online.