Help me if I ever get Dugg. For the past 5 years this site has been running on the same server. The server hardware has changed very little, the OS has gone from Windows 2000 Server to Windows XP to Ubuntu Linux. The hardware specs are kind of humorous:
- AMD Athlon 900mhz
- 1GB 133mhz SDRAM
- 250GB of mirrored hard drive space
- A 32mb Geforce Video Card
- USB 1.1!!!
- ADSL 1.5/128 Connection provided by the wonderful folks at Transbeam
I built this machine from parts back in the Fall of 2000 or thereabouts. It has been running almost constantly since then. There have been several hard drive failures, until I switched to Western Digital drives which so far have been very good. The only other hardware failure was the CPU fan. I had to replace that about 6 months ago. This server hosts not only nothoo.com, but also my other sites (some of which are currently fallow): fairfaxbirding.com, nielsclark.com, and brainonblog.com (remember when this site was called Brain on Blog?).
As far as software goes I have been through the gamut of blogging software. I started on the original blogger but it frustrated me so I decided I needed my own server. I then became an early adopter of MovableType and actually gave them money back when it was not mandatory! Getting that running on Windows with IIS was not fun. I then spent a brief period of time on BlogCMS, and one or two other Java based systems. None of these lasted very long. I finally moved to Wordpress sometime 3 or so years ago and have not regretted it.
There you go, not that you asked or that you care.
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