About this site
Coding
I primarily used Vim to write this site. With the pages generated using PHP and CSS. The combination of the two is a breath of fresh air, although I've still got some ways to go in using PHP to its utmost.
Hardware
The hardware for this site runs on my Compaq 6400R Server. A cheap purchase on Ebay it came with one CPU and 256 MB of RAM. With a little part shopping here and there I've upgraded it to four CPUs of 550Mhz/1 MB Cache goodness and a whopping 4 GB RAM. A complete waste of electricity perhaps, but it runs every Linux related service on my network with grace.
Server Location
Located in the bowels of my parents house (I'm hardly going to run all 55 dBA of it from my desk!), this server is connected to a high speed internet connection, which thankfully means I can put some images on it without killing my bandwidth.
Technical Specification
- 4x Intel Pentium III Xeon 550 MHz Processors
- 4 GB RAM
- 4x 9 GB Seagate Cheetah Disk Drive
- Intel e100 Pro Fast Ethernet NIC at 100 Mb s-1, full duplex
- Debian Linux (Sarge)
- Apache HTTPD
- PHP
- Exim MTA
- Postgresql SQL Server
- ADSL, 18 Mb s-1 downstream, 1 Mb s-1 upstream
- 22:15:15 up 8:37, 0 users, load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00