I figured someone might be interested in the kind of server that I’m running. It’s an AMD XP 3000+ with 1.5 GB of Ram, 250 GB ATA 133 HD, 1Gbit NetGear NIC, and a CD-Rom drive. It was pieced together from a couple of my older computers when I recently upgraded my gaming computer. This is the third iteration of my server, one was temporary while switching from an older PC to the newer hardware
It’s currently running windows 2000 server with AD. I use IIS with FTP and Web services. I have PHP 5 installed along with MySql for use with my webmail. Which now I’m using squirrelmail exclusively with IholaMail as my backup. The email server is hMailserver a very good open source imap pop3 smtp server. The total cost of all this was the orginal price of the parts and the electricity to run it. Everything else was either free or I somehow obtained a copy of it.
My Server
Updating Webmail
I’ve recently been playing with webmail for my email server here. I’ve been testing out squirrelmail and it seems pretty solid. I’ve created a logo for the webmail and was wondering which to use.
I’m so happy
I’ve had my first real visitor and would like to thank Steven for his comment. Visit his blog Here. I hope that I will have much more traffic in the coming months.
New Toys for Me
The school system in which I work just received a very, very, very large format printer.
This thing will print up to 24 inch charts. Now you could print some photos with that. I was setting it up yesterday, before being interrupted to go to a meeting.
Tech Blog
Technical, don’t you think.
One thing that I have discovered recently is that I love PHP. When I was younger back in the dot com era of the internet, I wrote my own little webpage by hand by piecing html here and there and learning as I went. I would have never imagined that a whole Blog could be written in PHP. Of course alot of things then that seemed impossible are the norm today. I think many of the advances now are because of the recent increase in residential broadband. I can remember 5 years ago when I first had DSL and I thought that I was happenin’ now. Now I thinking of switching to 3 Mb DSL (4 times faster than back then), because I saturate this DSL link I have now on a regular basis. Since I hoping to drive more traffic to my webserver it might just take it.
