We’re moved

Except for a couple of problems, we’ve moved all our services off of Brent’s old box onto the new box at “redwoodvirtual”:http://www.redwoodvirtual.com/. So far I’ve been pretty content with the service. All I should have to do tonight is get majordomo setup (hungover is down for the moment), get hypermail setup for the archive and get an rsync backup setup to my new MacLinux box.

So, I’ve also got the Mac booting into “Gentoo”:http://www.gentoo.org/ 2005.0 now. I’ll post up some screenshots of it booting in the next few days.

If any of your mail to me bounced, sorry, I had postfix misconfigured for a few hours last night. So far everything with the move and Linux on my G3 project has gone smoothly.

To give you an idea of what I did:

* Backed up Mel and I’s wordpress databases
* Copied the public_html directory from typhoon.org over to the new box
* Restored the databases and got the blogs working on the new server
* Changed the DNS on globe and stage to point typhoon.org over to met (the new box)
* Setup postfix, spamassassin + razor, pyzor & dcc to relay incoming mail
* Copied Brent, Mel, Doug and I’s email over to the new box
* Setup a global procmailrc for Junk mail filtering
* Ran mb2mh as all users individually to convert their mail from mbox format to maildir
* Changed DNS for mail.typhoon.org to point to met
* Setup irssi and screen so I can IRC from the box

That was about it. It was about weekends worth of work. Quite an enjoyable project for the weekend . I’m sure I’ll have something more exciting to write about tonight.

We’re moved

Except for a couple of problems, we’ve moved all our services off of Brent’s old box onto the new box at “redwoodvirtual”:http://www.redwoodvirtual.com/. So far I’ve been pretty content with the service. All I should have to do tonight is get majordomo setup (hungover is down for the moment), get hypermail setup for the archive and get an rsync backup setup to my new MacLinux box.

So, I’ve also got the Mac booting into “Gentoo”:http://www.gentoo.org/ 2005.0 now. I’ll post up some screenshots of it booting in the next few days.

If any of your mail to me bounced, sorry, I had postfix misconfigured for a few hours last night. So far everything with the move and Linux on my G3 project has gone smoothly.

To give you an idea of what I did:

* Backed up Mel and I’s wordpress databases
* Copied the public_html directory from typhoon.org over to the new box
* Restored the databases and got the blogs working on the new server
* Changed the DNS on globe and stage to point typhoon.org over to met (the new box)
* Setup postfix, spamassassin + razor, pyzor & dcc to relay incoming mail
* Copied Brent, Mel, Doug and I’s email over to the new box
* Setup a global procmailrc for Junk mail filtering
* Ran mb2mh as all users individually to convert their mail from mbox format to maildir
* Changed DNS for mail.typhoon.org to point to met
* Setup irssi and screen so I can IRC from the box

That was about it. It was about weekends worth of work. Quite an enjoyable project for the weekend . I’m sure I’ll have something more exciting to write about tonight.

Move Typhoon.org? Gentoo on a Beige G3?

So I’ve come to the realization it might be best to move typhoon.org. Ash has got business customers setup now on stage (the box hosting this website and our email etc), and our interests have started conflicting. I’m going to start helping out with WordPress-Pg I think, and I need the abliity to willy nilly install different versions of PHP, Apache, MySQL, Postgres, etc. Also, I’m looking to move off of Sendmail and UW IMAP to Postfix and either Courier or Cyrus IMAP to fix my concurrent access problem I’ve got now, and I can’t do these things while our box is supporting production users.

So I think I’ve determined the best way to do this will be to move off of stage and move onto my own box. I’ve considered getting a new box together and running Xen to give us all a virtual machine, but right now I don’t have the time or the hardware. So while I’m searching around for stuff today, I stumped upon Redwood Virtual, which offers UserMode Linux virtual machines for $10/mo for 64 Megs of RAM, 2 Gigs of Space and 20 GB of transfer. This seems like a pretty kickass deal, so I figure at $10/mo it’s worth trying out. I’m also looking to get a box together running Xen that Rob would provide for Dan and I. I guess I’d provide either the install, the admin work or cash in the deal, since Dan’s worked out the bandwidth with Schnur down at FastQ. Who knows, but there’s some viable solutions out there, and I think this’ll be the best for all of us. Maybe if we can get the hardware together I’ll keep the stuff in Arkansas but move it all to virtual machines, who knows.

Anyways, so the other project for the day is getting Gentoo loaded up on this Beige G3. From my initial research, it appears I’m going to have to boot into OS X and run BootX to load up the Linux kernel. This isn’t that bad I suppose. Oh well, I’ll let everyone know about how that proceeds. I need a development environment to play around with and I don’t want to muck with doing PHP, Python and other misc web development on OS X. I’d rather have a box I can trash if I need. Should be an interesting experiment. Need to do something with this hunk of metal that’s been sitting on the floor down here.