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23.4 Site Logs
The hosting service typically provides a log of everyone that visits your site and what pages they looked at.
This data can be analyzed to understand how customers use the site.
23.5 Email
An advantage of having your own domain name is that email is addressed to your domain not the ISP. This
personalizes your web presence. Normally the hosting service provides one or more e-mail accounts. Email
is structured as [e-mail]. The hosting service can sort incoming mail by user name if you
need multiple mail accounts. You can also run your own mail server to create multiple accounts.
Regardless of how many accounts you create one account is an alias. This is where mail not sorted to
another account is deposited. I did not realize how useful that is until I started creating a unique username
every time a site asks me to register. That way it is easy to determine who sold your email address when
you start getting SPAM.
24 Power Distribution – Wires and More Wires
Creating a home network tends to create a jumble of cabling,
both data and power to feed the computers and large number
of wall warts used by small devices. After struggling with
multiple power strips I decided to try an organize power
distribution.
Power Panel requirements
Multiple always on receptacles
Multiple switched receptacles
Wire routing provisions
Mounting provisions for larger power supplies.
I wanted a large number of always on outlets. Power bricks
tend to take up a lot of space, so the number of power strips
is generous, four strips with six receptacles each. To
minimize power consumption devices that do not have to be
on continuously are automatically switched on/off with the
workstation. An adapter cable plugs into the PS/2 keyboard
or mouse port to pickup 5 Volts. This controls a solid-state
relay that feeds the switched power strips. One note of
caution; some power managed PCs leave PS/2 ports on all
the time to allow remote power up. If that is the case the
power panel needs to sense power directly from the main
power supply.
Two rows of Velcro are used to organize the wiring. The
upper level consists of Cat5 Velcro cable wraps. This holds
surplus cable. The bottom row uses longer pieces of regular Velcro to hold inline power supplies.
The power panel has been used for several years and goes a long way to providing a safe environment and
reducing clutter.
Figure 28 Power Panel