1/18/09

Events of the past quarter:

• collation of current server configuration into scripts for buildout on the new server
• host & test server instances are installed & building on the new server
• 2009 expenses: ~$1000, all for new server hardware in the fall of 2009. Donations not less than $100. Current liquid assets (in savings): ~$600.

Current happenings:

• new site design. Initial pass visible at: http://artifex.org/~hblanks/fex-2010/
• completion of builds for new server

Future (& possible future) happenings:

• SMTP auth
• nginx hosting on top of OpenVZ?

9/23/09

I've updated IMAP/SSL and POP/SSL to work behind a proper IMAP/POP proxy -- so folks using Kmail and the like should be able to access mail, provided they've reset their password and downloaded the new root certificate. You can download the new Artifex root certificate from:

http://artifex.org/certs/cacert_2009-08-30.crt

This past weekend, Mike Hugo and I also got the new, quad-core server booting up on its own. We'll basically be building a replica of the current server on the new machine; once this is done, in a few weeks' time, we'll be able to migrate all services over to the new box with pretty minimal interruption.

The new server's in the rack now, but here's a picture when it was open and on the floor:

Needless to say, Mike will be pretty happy to move from the current 1.2+ amp machine to one that uses 0.6, and I'll be glad to finally run something with RAID 1 and more than 512MB of ram.

Earlier postings are available here.