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-Title: New Web Server (2016)
-Author: bnewbold
-Date: 2016-05-01
-Tags: tech
-
-For the past 9 years or so ([February 2007][0] through April 2016), this
-website has run reliably despite being a weird machine: a custom prototype web
-application for archiving and sharing digital "artifacts" of all sorts. I
-remember a bold and sparkling afternoon at a coffee house in Santa Cruz
-agonizing over URL structure and refining categories to collect all the
-material that would (aspirationally) accumulate here over my adult life. All
-things considered I think this effort wasn't wasted: I have indeed collected
-wiki notes, photos, images (distinct!), short links, one-off pages, and longer
-form writing over the years. My enthusiasm for maintaining and interfacing with
-idiosyncratic administrative and upload panels, however, declined rapidly.
-Neither the source code web interface nor the git-backed wiki were ever
-completed or used. I gave up on spam moderating the comment system pretty
-quickly, never actually posted any blog entries, and only ever pecked in a
-couple dozen web links and tweet-like microposts. Even the photo gallery system
-became too much of a time sink to deal with after traveling. Over the years I
-deployed [gitweb][] and [gitit][], and after RSS starting going out of favor I
-even started using [tumblr][1] for random content posts. I was still using the
-Django admin panel's "flatpages" plugin to update my contact info and project
-pages right up through this spring though.
-
-[gitweb]: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitweb
-[gitit]: http://gitit.net/
-[0]: https://git.bnewbold.net/bnewnet/commit/?id=5b31039d4c581048959dc51436f6918f29fbf9ea
-[1]: http://journal.bnewbold.net/
-
-While it's been amazing how simple and low maintenance running everything
-(email, repositories, website, etc) has been, the thrill of being on an old and
-unmaintained release of GNU/Linux (Ubuntu 10.04) has worn off, and I'm cleaning
-house. This website (`bnewbold.net`) is now a simple statically generated
-([pelican][]) site. I've kept `gitit`, but moved to `gitolite` (one of my
-favorite pieces of software) and `cgit` for repository hosting. The server runs
-Debian stable (`jessie` to start with), and SSL/TLS certificates come gratis
-via the Let's Encrypt project, for which I'm very grateful. I've stuck with
-[linode][] hosting for this server, though [digital ocean][] is comparable and
-cheaper for setups with fewer photos and large files. Many of these components
-are deployed in an automated fashion using the `ansible` deployment tool; you
-could fork and edit my [infrastructure scripts][infra] to set up those
-components in minutes if you like (though it would probably take an afternoon
-or longer if you've never done something like this before). Not everything is
-settled yet: I haven't moved email, and I'm not sure if I'll stick with
-[mediagoblin][] for photo hosting.
-
-[pelican]: http://blog.getpelican.com/
-[linode]: https://www.linode.com
-[digial ocean]: https://digitalocean.com
-[infra]: http://git.bnewbold.net/infra/
-[mediagoblin]: http://mediagoblin.org
-
-<br />
-<center>
-<div class="centerize" style="font-size: smaller;">
-<a href="http://bnewbold.net/photos/detail/529/">
-<img src="http://media.bnewbold.net/hosted-photos/cache/2008/02/08/IMG_7232.JPG" />
-</a>
-<br />
-An adelie penguin (the tiny black spot) wandering off alone over the Ross Sea
-ice shelf
-</div>
-</center>
-<br />
-
-The name of my old server is `adelie` (named after a small species of penguin
-that [I saw a lot of][4] in Antarctica), and it's days are limited. Though the
-[`hier`][5] (filesystem layout) of most of my systems are almost identical, I'm
-particularly comfortable on this one. It's seen me through a lot, more than any
-other computer system, and I'll probably miss it in a weird way.
-
-[4]: http://bnewbold.net/photos/detail/527/
-[5]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/hier.7.html
-
-The new server is `adze`; here's hoping it lives even longer!
-
-<br />
-_**Note:** As initially posted this was just a stub; I re-wrote it in June
-2016_
-