So, as I've been saying in recent posts, my server is finally setup and running. Still trying to work the bugs out of it here and there, but for the most part it's good to go from a functionality standpoint. The only thing I have left to do, and this is really just a nit-picky thing is get mail going on it. I've got the DNS working as well as Apache and ProFTP so that's all taken care of, but if I really want a good, functional server, in my opinion, there needs to be a way to receive mail to the website address as well.
Overall though, and yes I'm going to turn this into a Ubuntu Server Edition talk, I am generally impressed with Ubuntu Server 8.04.1. It's not necessarily as light weight as some other distros I could have chosen, but the trade off was extreme ease of setup and maintenance in the future. But as servers go, it's also not that hard on resources either, at least compared to something like Windows Server 2008 which requires a minimum of 512MB of RAM and 10GB of hard disk space. No, Ubuntu server has been installed on less then 1GB of space and I have just 256MB of RAM, which only 100MB at most have ever been used of it at once so far.
So, if you're curious about the new server, you are free to check it out. The new server is hosting www.techmachine.net which is my old blog site but I am now going to be running my business off of it as soon as I get it stablely running using DDNS which is the only difficulty I've had thus far with it.
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