My Web Server
I've found that the best way to stay "with it" on web serving is to
build a new server every so often, so you can use what you've learned
by screwing up the old one. And, it lets you use all that fun new stuff
in your scrap heap...
Sanford Mark I
The original sanford! Online from day one (Nov 17, 1998) until March of
2000.
The Specs:
- Brand X 486/33MHz
- 8MB RAM
- 1500MB of disk, maybe.
- Adaptec 1520A SCSI card
- NEC single-spin (!) CDROM
- Crappy monochrome monitor and card
- Brand X Ethernet card
- 4Mb/s cable modem connection
- Connectix B&W Quickcam
- Slackware Linux 3.4
Sanford Mark II
Online from March 2000 to sometime in 2003.
The Specs:
- Brand X Pentium I 120MHz
- 40MB RAM
- 6GB of disk
- Dual Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapters
- Double-speed CDROM, whoopee!
- Color (!) VGA adapter and monitor
- Brand X Ethernet card
- Same cable modem connection
- Same Quickcam
- Slackware Linux 7.0
Sanford Mark III (OK, maybe that's not an entirely accurate
picture...)
Online from 2003 to the present.
- Pentium II 300MHz overclocked to 566MHz
- 256MB RAM
- 80GB of disk
- Brand X 45x CDROM
- 3Com Ethernet Card
- Slackware Linux 9
- Sitting in a DMZ subnet behind a firewall of undisclosed make and
model :)
