Sorry about the extended outage. The remnants of Hurricane Ike met with a pressure front and created havoc where the server lives. My fiber connection was out for about 3 days. Everything should be hunky dory now.
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Inanis.net Server Upgrade
Had some extra hardware come into my possession, so I upgraded the Inanis.net server today. Upgraded the Athlon XP 1700+ to a 2800+, bumped it up to 1GB RAM, doubled the Hard Drive to 80GB and replaced the motherboard (or mobo, to the geeks). I had planned on putting the new CPU and RAM in the original mobo, but I found out the old mobo had a couple of capacitors that were starting to puff up, so I went full tilt. This upgrade was much easier than the last one I did. I used CloneZilla to copy the Hard Drive, and brought the new machine up beside the old one, to reduce downtime. I got the X Server configured correctly and made sure the network card worked properly (which, this time, was not an issue, not like last time), then switched the box over. Total downtime: about 10 minutes.
Life goes on.
Inanis.net Conversion Complete
Inanis.net has finished it’s conversion from Windows jail to Linux freedom. Open Source: feel the breeze.
Enjoy the new layout. It was the toughest part, a labor of love. It took me a total of 24 hours of work to get the theme hacked just the way I want it. My favorite part is the mouseover buttons at the top. Sorry IE6 users, you don’t get to see those. Get Firefox. Or Opera. Or run your damned Windows Updates, for Pete’s sake!
The server setup and configuration was easy. I just grabbed my in-house wiki box I was using for my Computer Museum and SPID, thew in WordPress and some greeblies, and put it on a public IP address. Having the wiki box as my webserver is an added bonus: no more weird dyndns and port forwarding crap!
It’s on a nice fast 3 Megabit fiber connection pretty much by itself, so it serves pages pretty well.
All in all, it was a fun project. Let’s hope it doesn’t break!