Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Phi 2:3

About this site

This site runs FreeBSD (currently running v8 release). I have been using FreeBSD starting with version 5 and have upgraded as new versions are released via CVS and buildworld.

The following hardware powers this site

This list is outdated…

CPU

AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+ (2200.12-MHz 686-class CPU)

Memory

1 GB PC3200 memory

Storage

  • 3Ware 8006-2LP controller with 2 Western Digital Caviar RE WD1600YS 160GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb (OS)
  • 750 GB Samsung HD753LJ gmirror array (storage)
  • External 750 GB drive for backup
  • Generic 40x CDROM

Video card

Matrox 16MB AGP card (this machine does not run X)

Network cards

  • Marvell Gigabit Ethernet

Raid level

One for OS and storage

Misc

  • All hard drives are monitored by SmartMonTools
  • UPS duties are handled by an American Power Conversion Back-UPS XS900 and monitored by apcupsd
  • Postfix is set up using virtual domains via PostfixAdmin. I use MySQL for database needs
  • I use ddclient to update my IP via DynDNS custom DNS service

Backup methodology

0 level dumps every day to alternate locations: The dumps go to a different hard drive locally as well as an external disk. This way I always have a current backup should one of the dumps fail for some reason. More info is available here

Services provided

  • Postfix + PostGrey
  • Apache 2.2
  • Amavisd + SpamAssassin + ClamAV dspam + ClamAV
  • Dovecot