About the site

2001-09-05
This web server is a Libretto 50CT sitting on my bookshelf at home. It has a 75MHz Pentium Processor 16MB RAM and is running FreeBSD. The Internet connection is a 2.5/0,7Mbit DSL line with a premanent IP address.

The libretto sufferd a minor disk crash, it went into hibernation mode over my /usr partition, resulting in a rather messed up filessystem. So the machine is reinstalled but this time on a IBM Thinkpad 560 with 133MHz and 40MB of RAM.

The IBM has long been retired and has been running on another laptop for over a year

%uptime
11:36AM  up 370 days,  6:08, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.02

But time for change again, we needed more disk space so the new system is a Linux box (I will miss BSD), running on a Via C3 1GHz (cool processor) with lots of disk.

2005-02-25 Well the Via died, I still have not worked out why. So it has been replaced with a Smaller and cooler system, now a 600MHz Via MiniITX system. The internet connection is still the same but has been uppgraded when my old ISP was bought by Bredbandsblolaget.

Still a Via MiniITX but with RAID-5 disks instead.

2007-01-25
Time pases and of course it is not RAID-5 anymore, the HighPoint raid card died and created lots of misery. Finaly gave in and went over to software raid instead. The Internet connection is around 15Mbit downstream and was 1.2Mbit upstream from TDC, due to lots of errors it has been downgraded to 800Kbits Speed and the margins are here.

2007-04-29 Upgraded the OS through yum upgrade

2007-05-12 Well it seems that the adsl line is back to 15Mbit/1.2Mbit, was not that a pleasant suprise.

2007-05-23 Upgraded the disk to 2x500GB to get raid redudnace on all pratitions.

2007-06-11 The via mother board died of heatstroke... Never buy a via moter board again. Running on a trusty old Dell Dimension XPS 800 until new hardware can be found

2007-06-24 Upp and running again in new clothes, this time a Core 2 Duo and 2GB of ram on a Intel G965 chip set. In my opinion running a little bit warm Uppgraded the os again with yum

2008-06-04 To fix the coming virtualization the disks have been upgraded to 2x750GB

2008-06-18 Changes again, this time we have moved over to virtual hardware, the web server is running on a kvm based virtual machine. Still the Core 2 Duo as base.

2009-07-26 Disks ae full, moved to 2x1,5TB disks. Changed from Seagate disks to Western Digital. I must say they are a loot cooler and quiter than the old disks. The virtual machine runnig the mail and webserver was moved to the new disks with dd. Added more memory but he stupid motherboard could only handle 2.8GB of the 4GB.

2009-08-26 Updated the bios, and remapped the PCI devices, and now it has 4GB of memory

2010-08-10 Gigabyte - Socket 775 - Intel G41 (GA-G41M-ES2L)
Crashes getting more frequent, though it was a new centos version causing kvm to crash. Started upgrading fedora to get newer kvm versions, but then the whole machine died. moved disks to another machine and tried to investigate what was broken, CPU, memory or motherboard. Moved the CPU to another system and it worked, so I concluded that the mother board was bad. Bought a Gigabyte - Socket 775 - Intel G41 (GA-G41M-ES2L) mother board, it only had two ram slots so memory is down from 4GB to 2GB. Also bought a new disk Western Digital Caviar Green 1,5TB to replace the segate 750GB disk that was getting bad secotors, nearly all my seagate 500 and 750GB disk have bad sectors, have replaced them with WD disks. I guess the old Asus mother board could not handle the warm summer.

2012-07-06 Asrock Nettop ION 330HT - Atom 330 / 2GB
Time for change...Moved the mail and webserver over to a old Asrock Atom based machine. Moved the disks over to a Synology 212+. No redunancy on the Asrock, but I will back it up to the Synology.

2017-01-05 Upgrade to a Intel NUC NUC6i3SYH 2,5" i3-6100U with 8GB of Ram one M2 250GB ssd and one 700GB HDD.
Due to needed for a smaller footprint.

10:06:40 up 885 days, 22:50,  1 user,  load average: 0,00, 0,01, 0,05
2009-12-01 Times changes and site moved to a Raspberry Pi 3B+ booting from 1TB HDD.
Footprint more or less the same but very energy efficeint. Host has been running for over a year before moving to it.
10:11:07 up 377 days, 21:15,  2 users,  load average: 0.49, 0.41, 0.37
2020-11-30 Time to move home again. Now running over dynamicDNS @ home
The hardware is a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB with USB-C 500GB SSD. The Internet connection is 250/250Mbit
Last modified: 2024-03-03