As a web host, we needed an automated mechanism for generating snapshots of server filesystems on the Linux-based systems. There are a number of ways to achieve backups on Linux systems including Remote backup using Linux tar/ssh/cron and incremental tar backups on a local file system. One of the drawbacks of using tar to perform an entire filesystem backup is that some systems do not have the ability to create a compressed tarball greater than 2GB in size.

I have been writing technical articles since 2004, but never really thought about monetizing my work until late last year. I own more than a dozen websites, and it really becomes hard to maintain all of them. In the 4th Quarter of 2010, I started selling advertisements on Web Hosting Resources, and IP Location websites and started generating a passive income from them monthly. Due to the time it takes to find quality advertisers, and running and maintaining an Ad server is somewhat troublesome I have decided to convert all of my Ads to Google Adsense. I have been running Google Adsense for nearly 8 months, and I am pretty happy with its performance as compared to other advertisement networks such as Adbrite and 3rd party networks.

Google Adsense is one of the most popular Ad Networks you can use to publish advertisements on your website and start earning income immediately. Depending on impressions (CPM) and click-through rates (CTR), your Adsense revenue may vary from a few dollars to a few hundred per day for high-traffic websites. Optimizing your Adsense placement could potentially double, or even triple your Ad income if correctly implemented.