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This afternoon around 13:00 GMT, NAO will be moved to a new server. Expect some minor outages and a maintenance period which (hopefully) won't last too long. You'll be informed once the move has been completed and everything should work as expected again. If after that you still encounter any problems, please let us know.
Further details will be posted when available.

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

If you can read this, NAO is up and running on the new server.
If you cannot read this, see an optician.

PS, I bet my connection to the new server is faster than yours. :-P

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

This post was edited by null on Dec 26, 2004.

Congrats on the switch-over!

Of course, if your connection truly is better, you have to understand that you'd be outdoing Americans in something, which means that the Department of Vaterland Homeland Security is already sending over a strikeforce to deal with the situation.

I'll believe in anything if you'll just believe in anything

Congrats on the switch-over!

Thanks. :-) I suppose the fact that people have successfully logged since the switch is an indicator that it works.

Of course, if your connection truly is better, you have to understand that you'd be outdoing Americans in something,

Well, the main reason my connection is better is that the new server is part of my apartment-internal LAN, so unless they bombard my Ethernet switch there's not much they could do. :-) But I'm pretty unworried since there aren't any oil resources worth mentioning in my apartment.

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

This post was edited by null on Dec 26, 2004.

new server is part of my apartment-internal LAN,

How fast is your uplink? I'm curious because I have some websites running from my own personal server on a DSL connection. Since NAO gets alot of hits per day I'd like to know how much bandwidth you have for the uplink. I planned on putting a message board on one of my sites but haven't yet. I'd like to first figure out if the bandwidth I have could support the kind of hits that NAO regularly gets.

Is this server running FreeBSD?

Since NAO gets alot of hits per day I'd like to know how much bandwidth you have for the uplink.

At present I have 300 'real' kbps, i.e. 37.5kB/s, which could be upgraded to up to 800kbps with the current modem. For speeds above that I'd probably have to order a fiber connection. Since most of NAO's traffic is text, mod_gzip achieves compression rates of about 66%, effectively doubling or tripling the actual bandwidth. So far it's more than enough to for NAO and a couple of other (low-traffic) sites hosted on the same server.

Is this server running FreeBSD?

Of course. :-)

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

At present I have 300 'real' kbps

Cool, that's what I have currently. And it's reassuring that this will be plenty for now. My websites are extremely low traffic at the moment and have no online forum type stuff. Is mod_gzip installed by default in Apache? I need to look into this.

Is this server running FreeBSD?

Of course. :-)

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FreeBSD is awesome but I don't know the first thing about it. I'm thinking of moving my linux server to NetBSD 2.0 which I'm really liking from my initial tests of it.

Is mod_gzip installed by default in Apache?

Hmmm, AFAIK it depends on the installation. FreeBSD has this really cool ports system which has built me Apache with tons of modules, but I need to manually enable each module in httpd.conf if I want to use it.
If the extra CPU usage can be tolerated, I absolutely recommend using mod_gzip - even if you have a multi-gigabit connection which doesn't require it, you'll still make low-bandwidth clients happy.

FreeBSD is awesome but I don't know the first thing about it.

Well, first and foremost the choice of an OS is of course a question of religious wars personal preference. :-)
I for one am extremely happy with FreeBSD. I can't praise its firewall or package/ports manager enough. Installation/upgrade and system administration use a central (text-mode) menu-driven utility. There's a man page for everything. It's very secure yet not as paranoid as OpenBSD... and Google has a HOWTO for everything you might ever want to do with your system.
But, as noted above, it's primarily a matter of taste. :-)

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

I for one am extremely happy with FreeBSD.

Which version do you run? I downloaded 5.3 incase I get the itch to install it. Right now I'm trying to learn NetBSD 2.0, the damn firewall software for Unix/Linux is complicated. I spent hours last night trying to tune my linux box. Now I have to spend hours trying to figure out ipf on NetBSD. I really think I have no understanding of firewalls. It's easier to code C++ than it is to configure a firewall.

Maybe we can chat about firewall settings and how to configure it properly. I can't seem to get anything from reading the docs.

Which version do you run?

At present, 4.8-RELEASE (with a custom kernel of course).

Now I have to spend hours trying to figure out ipf on NetBSD.

There's an (IMHO) good tutorial on how to set up a NetBSD box as a router/firewall, including a more or less complete sample ipf.conf. Its only downside is that it's in German... but tell me if you need something translated. :-)

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900