Jake Savin Posts

In yesterday’s Frontier 9.0 screenshot, we saw a list of sites installed on the server, with some information about the site. Today’s screenshot shows the top of the site-level admin page for a single site. You get to this page by clicking a site’s name in the list of sites on the server.

This page gives server managers an easy way to change a site’s URL, enable or disable a site, or make the site private or public.

One of the most important functions is to configure a site for automatic backups. When backups are enabled, new or changed parts of a Manila site will be backed up nightly, and an email report is sent to the server manager listing the sites and number of parts that were backed up. You can also make an immediate backup. This feature is new in Frontier 9.0.

Tomorrow’s screenshot: Site-Administration, part 2

On 9/13/2001, I received an email through my mom and a friend, which brought tears to my eyes. It was written by a yound man by the name of Usman Farman, who was kind enough to let me and many others re-publish it. In the face of calamity and hatred, he sent a message of love:

My name is Usman Farman and I graduated from Bentley with a Finance degree last May. I am 21 years old, turning 22 in October; I am Pakistani, and I am Muslim, and I too have been victimized by this awful tragedy. The next time you feel angry about this, and perhaps want to retaliate in your own way, please remember these words:

“Brother, if you don’t mind, there is a cloud of glass coming at us, grab my hand, lets get the hell out of here.”

Here’s the first in a series of screenshots of new stuff in Frontier 9.0 — the home page of the Admin Website.

This page lists all of the Manila sites on the server, along with a hit count for today and all-time, and other basic information about the site. You can easily open the site itself by clicking the little globe icon next to the site’s name. To administer the site, you click its name.

Down the right-edge of the page is the Frontier Status Center, which Radio UserLand users will find familiar. At a glance, you can see how long the server has been running, what kind of traffic it’s getting and the resources its using. Below the Server Status section, there’s room for installed Tools to provide their own status messages. The ones you see in this screenshot are Radio Community Server and Server Monitor, which both ship with Frontier 9.0.

Tomorrow’s screenshot: Site-Administration, part 1.