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Brohaz

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YACTF
« on: January 22, 2007, 02:16:03 am »
I'm probably an oddball fan, I started a buddy icon site almost four years ago at Geocities and I eventually found Freewebtown after maybe a year or so. Then I spent the next two developing the site into something much larger. I started getting into wallpaper and even my own series of fiction, which is kind of a blend of Captain N and Stargate with some Die Hard-style attitude for added seasoning.

Anyway, back in late November, I discovered the Abyss Web Server and am now running my web site right off my secondary hard drive with No-IP as my dynamic redirector. So if nobody can access my site, my computer is shut down.

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« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2007, 09:00:56 am »
Oh? The Compendium used to be hosted off an old PC running Linux and Apache + MySQL and connected via cable service back in the day. Now we just use cheap shared hosting, since most of the development and experimentation on the site has stopped, so we don't need as much freedom with our hosting options (and I don't have any time).

Future development will probably be done with CherryPy, Django, or even UCW, probably running behind Lighttpd, so we might switch to a custom server placed in colocation (depending on what other projects I have at the time). It'll be a while before I'm free to work on anything like that though.

Hmm... I think four years ago I was cutting my teeth helping some friends admin their dedicated server, which they were using to resell shared hosting to several people. I can't believe it's already been that long. In fact, this site's getting kind of old...

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Re: YACTF
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2007, 08:38:06 pm »
That's cool. I'm new at this whole web server thing. I got fed up with the fact that whenever my wireless disconnected from the internet, FreeWebTown kept my connection alive and I couldn't connect to my account for a while and I didn't want to dick around with someone else's server, paranoia that something horrible might happen on their end and I'd lose everything there.

I guess that's me, I like to keep things within spitting distance. :)