New Server

The server that used to host this site, and a few others, has finally had one of it's raid drives fail after over 10 years of use. That's like 100 in server years! At it's age it's time to put it to bed, so I've moved this site over to linode. I upgraded the underlying Postgres, OpenACS and AOLServer instances at the same time. There are a few styling issues that need fixing, but if you notice anything actually broken please let me know.

BTW, as well as the same hardware running for over 10 years, the same Linux installation (with security patches which eventually had to be backported after it stopped being supported) has been running that whole time. If I remember right, the maximum uptime was around 700 days - just short of two years. Unfortunately it had to be shut down then to move it to another power rail.

I felt a certain nostalgia poking around it's directory structure looking for anything I wanted to keep. It's probably the last server I've had with /usr/local/playground in a nod to russm. And certainly the last server I will ever run qmail on - it was so awesome, but the massively scalable queue based mail handling just doesn't work with today's spam probes.