Blog Moved
As of whenever the DNS updates catch on, my blog and email are now being hosted from my home server, jackscott.homedns.org. Nothing much will actually change, except that’s it’s technically a fresh installation of WordPress.
The rest of my server is a different matter though. I’ve added two 512MiB sticks of memory to my server, giving it 1GiB total. Compared to the 128MiB that was in it before, memory is bountiful. Which is a good thing, because I’ve switched to using the Apache webserver (which consumes a bucketload of RAM). I was using Lighttpd before, but setting up PHP support on that proved to be a pain in the neck. I’m sure it can be done, but I don’t have the patience to sit down and do it.
Configuration of the Cisco router was going swimmingly up until the point where I had to set up network address translation and port forwarding. I’m not confident with any of the configuration as far as those aspects go, and I’m unwilling to pull my server offline to test whether ‘it might work’. I’ve basically painted myself into a corner, but I’m confident with a bit of reading I can get it up and running.
In other news, I’ve left my job at Principal Computers. I’m in the middle of a week and a half doing nothing, and next Monday (the 2nd of February) I fly to Berlin (via Melbourne, Hong Kong and London) for 19 days of sightseeing and wintery goodness. When I come back it will be straight into a science degree at the University of Tas. The units I’ve chosen for first semester are Discrete Mathematics with Applications 1, Calculus and Applications 1A, Economics for Business and Programming and Problem Solving. Sounds like fun…