I am very pleased to announce jasonpoteet.com and a few other websites are running on a fresh dedicated Linux web server. It was completely built from from the terminal window by yours truly. Of course if it winds up getting hacked because I did something silly like chmod 777 my config files, you’ll know why.
My main hosting experience has come from Windows Servers NT 4 through Windows 2003. I like Windows but I also wanted to expand my Linux abilities. Linux is easy to figure out from the GUI so I decided that wouldn’t really teach me the proper way. I also wanted to make a server that was blazing fast and as secure as possible. Common sense tells you the less you have installed the faster and more secure your server will be. With that thought in mind, I decided to go with a minimal install that only has what I need installed.
Working from the terminal window was certainly an exercise in patience for me. It was pretty frustrating at times to know what I wanted to do, but have no idea where the file I needed to change was located. That is where the wonder of the Internet came in. The wealth of information on the Internet is just incredible these days. It was very satifisfying though when I finally got the hang of everything and got the website up and running. I am also very please at the improved load times versus the old server. The hardware this is running on isn’t that impressive so it is certainly an improvement.
When I finish up a few loose ends, the next phase will be redoing the design. The old design went south when I updated Wordpress, so I decided to simple start over. The current look is a blank wordpress template from refueled.com. It looks good for a blank template, but it does need some livening up. That will be the next around here.