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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_
+