I decided to replace an older system that was doing this site with a newer system. Of course, its running Debian Etch. That’s about all I do these days unless its a desktop. Then I go with that crazy kid from da hood; sid. I rebuilt things from scratch with a Pentium 4 Prescott system, 3ware controller with two 250g drives as a RAID 1, and even added a primary IDE drive with 250g. Things seem better and I’ve finished rebuilding the box, adding my weblog back into the mix, futzing with php4 and mysql, and adding the packages which now seem to be borked with the etch install. So, now the “Riders of Rohan” have returned to give me VPN (open), NFS (blech…), Samba (necessary), and a few other tricks and treats.
The other thing I am finishing on is a backup server which is a smaller shuttle box that will take backups and generate less heat than all those older PCs I had doing this work before. Things seem nicer. If’n you want to do this kinda work, don’t mess with any of the other flavors of Linux. Debian just does it all in mere minutes.
