Virtual hosts allow me to host more than one domain pointing to the server and using different directories. Currently there are two pointing towards this server and I have just configured them so that both black-flag.co.uk and www.cosmo1847.co.uk now work as they did before the reformat.
Monthly Archive for March, 2007
The server was meant to be up and running by this time last night. Within the past hour it has all come together with PHP5 and MySQL being brought online within the past half an hour of writing this. The server is not finished yet but Apache, PHP5 and MySQL are working so I have been able to change back to the main server. My second server has done a good job and I have been updating the homepage with news about the server update. Thank you for your patience.
During the running of the server I have learned much about how programs work and the running of the server. Whilst learning to tend to make a little mess of things here and there and for this reason I am going to reformat the server to do a fresh start. This will be the first time that the server has been reformatted since October because I have found Debian GNU/Linux to be so stable. I will compile the programs and kernel from scratch to give me the latest software. If things all go well the server should be back up and working within a few hours but if they do not go well I will reformat it again and go back to square one.
The server has had a few hardware upgrades to add cooling, sound levels and storage. I have added a Lite-on DVD-RW as I burn large amounts of data from the server that won’t fit on a DVD. I’ve put an 80mm fan on the back to take out the hot air from the case and changed the 200W Seagate PSU for a 350W Lite-on to decrease the sound levels. At the moment there is a ATI 9550 256MB graphics card installed in the server that I’m using to set up the DVD-RW but I may leave it in there as it may come in handy, but normally there wouldn’t be a graphics card due to heat and because I never use them.
There are some planned upgrades for the future which include a SATAII PCI controller and some SATAII hard drives to boost the storage space. Another upgrade would be from 100Mb/s to 1000Mb/s network card that greatly boost the speed of the network when I backup my computers.