jfrank

I wanted to try out AdSense, so I added it to my site. It was fairly painless, but I needed a clean way to integrate it with Word Press, so I went and looked for a plugin that deals with managing ads. There are many, and I found one, but I had to upgrade Word Press to the latest version in order to use the plugin.

Since it was so simple, I went ahead and added analytics too. It took about 5 minutes to add to my theme and that was that. Thanks Google.

Well it helps to have visitors too, after trying to convince barney to put ads on his site (which he declined), I am still left wondering a lot of things about it. Its more of an experiment right now than anything else. I’m wondering how much it would offset the bandwidth cost of an average blog. Like if someone was to get hits on a blog obviously factoring in images and other ‘heavy’ content, could the revenue from the Google ads offset or even overtake the cost of hosting?

I am using a virtual linux server via free vmware player on my development box, which is winxp. I found several groups who produce free stock distributions packaged in virtual machine format, which means I can run on literally the same stack as my real server locally.

I haven’t got there quite yet, but I intend to use a windows eclipse ide mapped into the virtual box via shared folders.

The subversion usage up to this point has left me with simple tasks to sync the two server’s configurations.

next up…. python or ruby

Hi everyone who isn’t there.

I have really enjoyed setting up my new server, and my first project was to get a blog up and running under my domain name. I have had this domain for years but haven’t gotten around to developing anything on it. So here it is. It didn’t take me long to get it set up, and I version controlled the whole thing as I was doing it. So if someone were to wipe out my server right now, I would still be able to regenerate this ..

er i take it back.

I haven’t set up backups yet… and although what I said was true because I have a blog working copy, I would lose this post because I don’t have mysql backing up yet. What I was saying was, I could regenerate this blog in a couple commands.

Anyway so the first few posts are going to be about server setup, and me learning linux.