{"id":226,"date":"2008-09-14T17:01:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T21:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.epkphoto.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2008-09-14T17:01:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T21:01:13","slug":"server-transition-feel-the-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/14\/server-transition-feel-the-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"New server up and running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.epkphoto.com\/2008\/07\/10\/new-server-coming-soon\/\">earlier this summer<\/a>, I built a new server to power several pieces of my network at home as well as my website and email services.\u00a0 After much testing and careful planning, I can now happily say that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epkphoto.com\/\">epkphoto.com<\/a> website is running on this new server.\u00a0 The site is now much more responsive thanks to larger memory and other resource allocations than it had previously.\u00a0 Luckily, this transition happened with very few issues, so most would not have noticed the change until this announcement.\u00a0 Read on for more details about the server.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The new server is not so special from a hardware standpoint&#8230;just another computer built from run-of-the-mill hardware in a nice CoolerMaster case.\u00a0 The software setup is more interesting.\u00a0 The server is running CentOS 5.2 and OpenVZ to provide container-based virtual machines.\u00a0 More specifically, here is a list of major services that run on the hardware environment and in the virtual containers:<\/p>\n<p>Hardware (CentOS 5.2)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>iptables-based firewall\/gateway\/NAT router<\/li>\n<li>DNS<\/li>\n<li>Darwin Streaming Server<\/li>\n<li>OpenVPN<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Virtual Container 1 (Ubuntu 8.04)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apache webserver (for epkphoto.com)<\/li>\n<li>MySQL<\/li>\n<li>Postfix SMTP<\/li>\n<li>MailScanner<\/li>\n<li>Dovecot IMAP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Virtual Container 2 (Fedora 9)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apache webserver (for kerbyserver.net)<\/li>\n<li>Netatalk AFP<\/li>\n<li>BackupPC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned earlier this summer, I built a new server to power several pieces of my network at home as well as my website and email services.\u00a0 After much testing and careful planning, I can now happily say that the epkphoto.com website is running on this new server.\u00a0 The site is now much more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[36,17,10,8,9,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p84xAX-3E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}