Stefan Georg DOT Net

In an attempt to drive down costs and maximize profits I recently purchased (well started renting) a third server. Right now I'm paying for 3 servers, but will replace the first two servers, my web and mail servers. They will be decommissioned soon and I'll only have one server running.

I have played around with vmware as a virtualization service both on my desktop and laptop and have recommended it to others to use on their systems. I still think its a great piece of software and I'm sure that if one wanted to get their enterprise solutions there would be a real reason to use vmware. However, today I quickly and easily setup Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) for linux which will offer some speed increases and some nice tools to manage the new virtual machines running on my new server.

So my decision to chroot my important processes on both of my servers has paid of with some great uninterrupted uptime. I just celebrated my 700th day of uptime. The services have all been restarted many times but the underlying system never was rebooted.

In the spirit of continuing education I am learning a new JQuery so that I can quickly improve the functionality of web pages without too much effort. In the past I wrote my own JavaScript and will continue to do so, but its also important to know what you are good at and when you should reuse something someone else already wrote.

In an attempt to move to drupal 6 I made a few silly mistakes and decided at that point that I might as well just recreate the entire content so that it was more up to date. Since I created the original I learned the ins and outs of drupal so I had a new perspective on how certain pages should be done. Now I am happy with all my content types and my views running on drupal 6.