This blog (and indeed all of the household computing services) have moved onto a new server. It took much more time to complete the migration than I had planned, but the current configuration should be good for at least a couple years. A few things to note:
- If you were getting services from the knot.org servers, they’re probably not on the new server, unless you’ve already seen them working. I have the data, but I removed the services since they were getting very little use, and I wasn’t in the mood to port over every last bit of data. (What’s the point of cleaning house if everything gets kept?)
- Every service that is still running was updated, and the data porter over. Please check out the services you know about and make sure they still work as expected (this blog included). Let me know of any issues you spot.
- The new server is faster, but our connection speed is still abysmal, so I’m not sure may people will notice any improvement on the speed front. If things seem slower do let me know.
- I’m looking for a good source of secondary DNS — limited funds are available for pay-for-service, free is better :-).
- We’re now running software RAID 1 on the server, so what data we have is somewhat protected against hardware failure. I’m looking into further data protection measures. I’ll probably implement soft-update based snapshots, and if anyone is interested, I’d be willing to do some kind of mutual off-site backup scheme (like CrashPlan).
Thanks, and feel free to leave me your comments…
Hmm, maybe instead of CrashPlan, I should just find someone to trade FUSE shares with?
It looks like Google has released a Mac FUSE client, which is just too useful.
(and in case anyone is wondering, this is mostly a note to myself so that I can find Crashplan and MacFUSE later).