I’ve been working away in the engine room for a few weeks, which goes part of the way to explaining why there have been no postings here for some time.

We were running a nice old server in my Fremantle office, down the end of a 512/128 ADSL line. The uplink speed was getting a bit too slow for the volume of traffic on the 7 domains it was hosting, the server was getting very old and I was a bit afraid of one of the seven domains becoming popular and then having constant bandwidth problems.

As of late last week, we’ve moved to a new managed server at servepath.com, and I’ve been spending the last few weeks configuring, installing and testing it. servepath.com are excellent, amazingly professional and well organised. These guys send you a warning email when there is going to be a twenty or thirty second routing instability as they add more links. They also offered Debian as a operating system, which is what I was looking for.

So, back to normal now, which means I’ll do one blog entry every week, rather than one every two weeks :-)

Oh, and a few statistics about the old and new servers:

Old server:
Pentium 166MHz with MMX Extensions
64 Mbytes RAM
512k/128k ADSL link to the internet

New server:
Pentium Celeron 1.7GHz
640 Mbytes RAM
100Mbit ethernet connection to the internet