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... and we're back! Just in time for our 8th birthday.
Mindstab.net's been around. It started back in January of 2002 running on a 486 from my bedroom. A few years later when I had some money, I bought a trusty 1U rackmount server, kvasir, and migrated mindstab there. Kvasir started co-located but when money dried up some, I brought kvasir home and mindstab has been living in my room for the last several years.
That all ended yesterday morning at 3:30am when I was awoken by kvasir's PSU fan screaming to death. The writing had been on the wall for a bit that things were going to have to change. I knew the fan was on its last legs, and hosting from home had been getting ever more precarious as both the local ISPs seem unable to provide a stable and reliable net connection. To that end I'd been playing with a VPS at linode.com (recommended in a blog post by Brian Carper) but I hadn't gotten very far. Actually, after a month I was still poking at the kernel trying to get my general paranoid level of security with grsecurity and PaX to work with the Xen virtual host at Linode. Anyways, at 3:30am yesterday I went into emergency mode and acceptable that their stock kernel "might just suffice" and started madly installing infrastructure software. Since then I've been copying over data and starting to bring services back up. So far we have a firewall, DNS, Jabber and I'm just starting to get the websites back up, this being the first.
Lots of work ahead. I need to get the rest of the sites up. Then I have to dive into the mess that is e-mail. I'd previously been using a qmail/vpopmail/courier system but I think I'm chucking that for a postfix/dovecot system, but I'm sure it'll take some kicking to get it up and get all my mail into it. Hopefully not too much. Then onto less crucial systems, then go back and re-vet alot of things.
So yeah, as of now, mindstab.net is coming to you from my new server Loki, in the cloud... or New Jersey more specifically :P
