Hi All,
Very soon the main sifnt web services (Mail and primary Web Server) will be gradually moved to a new server, at a new location. The main reasons for this move are the following:
- Faster server
- More reliable server (Most notably the hard drives are server grade and will be in RAID1 for redundancy)
- Redundant Internet Links - currently two with a possible third later
- Much better ventilation - the server is actually hosted in a properly air conditioned server room, rather than a hot unventilated cupboard
- Less downtime - At the moment if the server or internet connection dies, I have to call my parents' house and hope someone is home or drive 45 minutes out there to fix it. From now on the server will less than 10 minutes drive from me most of the time which means things will get fixed faster
- New Operating System and software versions - The old Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog (5.04) install is now over 2 years old, unsupported and getting a little long in the tooth; the new server is running Gentoo 2006.1 and should be much easier to keep up-to-date.
Bender itself isn't going anywhere, and will be remaining in use at Ridgehaven as a file server and webserver - just not of the main website. The new server has been named 'Nibbler' in line with my usual Futurama naming theme. The specs of the new server can be viewed here: http://lonsdale.sifnt.net.au/sysinfo/
The mail server will be the first thing to move, which will hopefully happen in the next week or so. To ensure that this is a nice seamless and transparent process, please make sure you are using webmail.sifnt.net.au or mail.sifnt.net.au to collect your mail and not any other address, otherwise once the server moves homes you will no longer be able to pick up your new mail.
I haven't turned on authenticated SMTP yet and may not bother, so please use your ISP's mail server to send mail with your mail client (e.g. mail.internode.on.net).
I'll keep everyone informed as things happen.
Sam.
Forum thread: http://forums.sifnt.net.au/viewtopic.php?t=2136
Very soon the main sifnt web services (Mail and primary Web Server) will be gradually moved to a new server, at a new location. The main reasons for this move are the following:
- Faster server
- More reliable server (Most notably the hard drives are server grade and will be in RAID1 for redundancy)
- Redundant Internet Links - currently two with a possible third later
- Much better ventilation - the server is actually hosted in a properly air conditioned server room, rather than a hot unventilated cupboard
- Less downtime - At the moment if the server or internet connection dies, I have to call my parents' house and hope someone is home or drive 45 minutes out there to fix it. From now on the server will less than 10 minutes drive from me most of the time which means things will get fixed faster
- New Operating System and software versions - The old Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog (5.04) install is now over 2 years old, unsupported and getting a little long in the tooth; the new server is running Gentoo 2006.1 and should be much easier to keep up-to-date.
Bender itself isn't going anywhere, and will be remaining in use at Ridgehaven as a file server and webserver - just not of the main website. The new server has been named 'Nibbler' in line with my usual Futurama naming theme. The specs of the new server can be viewed here: http://lonsdale.sifnt.net.au/sysinfo/
The mail server will be the first thing to move, which will hopefully happen in the next week or so. To ensure that this is a nice seamless and transparent process, please make sure you are using webmail.sifnt.net.au or mail.sifnt.net.au to collect your mail and not any other address, otherwise once the server moves homes you will no longer be able to pick up your new mail.
I haven't turned on authenticated SMTP yet and may not bother, so please use your ISP's mail server to send mail with your mail client (e.g. mail.internode.on.net).
I'll keep everyone informed as things happen.
Sam.
Forum thread: http://forums.sifnt.net.au/viewtopic.php?t=2136