Sep 11, 2009
New Server
Site was down for almost a week, due to my provider being DDoSed. Email was broken more so as SMTP was the target, but it was rather odd that the data center decided to block outgoing SMTP connections from a block of IPs, where my VPS is unfortunately a member of.
I've since switched to a new provider. This makes my third OpenVZ VPS, though I was meaning to move on to Xen. At 6 US dollars a month though, it seems quite a bargain, so I'll have to see where this goes.
The move also afforded me to change some stuff under the hood. Apache is gone, replaced by nginx (although this required having blosxom running under a thttpd backend, until I can whip up a FastCGI equivalent.) BIND gave way to maradns, cutting down significant memory usage. And dropbear replaces the OpenSSH server. Exim 4 and dovecot remain though, as they seem to quite big (or small) enough for my purposes.
I'll document more about the changes in later posts. In the meantime, I need to catch up on emails and packaging...
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