Well, the server move is complete, at least for this site. I still have yet to move Serverwiki to the new machine, but both this site (if you’re reading this) and War Ensemble are live on the new box.

I’m getting the hang of Debian, and I quite like it so far. What’s really impressed me though is the latest version of Webmin and Virtualmin. For the longest time it seemed as if both projects were really stagnant, but the last couple releases have made server management quite a bit easier, and are even comparable to control panels like cPanel, Ensim, DirectAdmin and Plesk.  It of course took a bit more work and some configuring as Open Source things usually do, but over-all the experience was quite enjoyable.

Over the course of the next week I’ll be working on something that those of you who’ve owned a computer for more than 10 years may enjoy. Yeah, that’s right, I’m setting up a BBS. A bit of nostalgia, and something to waste some time on , eh?  So far I’ve got Synchronet up and running. I just need to spend the time getting DosEMU working, and certain enjoyable door games running properly.  Then I’ll hook myself back up to FidoNet, perhaps find a few newsgroups to import, and we’re good! It’ll even have a web-based system that’ I’ll also spend time working on and making pretty.

Finally, I added some more ads to the site here.  Due to the fact that I’m now dishing out a hefty chunk of change for a server, I’m going to at least attempt to make back a little bit of it. We’ll see how it goes.

So, I spent a whole bunch of money at Softlayer on a new server, then spent 30+ hours setting it up, moving websites, coding, and tinkering with my BBS.  What did you do for your 4th of July?