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diff --git a/posts/new-server-2016.md b/posts/new-server-2016.md deleted file mode 100644 index 8f2245b..0000000 --- a/posts/new-server-2016.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,81 +0,0 @@ -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_ - |