New blog
Welcome to the new blog. I have been using blogger, and while I do like it pretty well I thought it would be fun to host my own. It may end up being more of a headache than it is worth though - now I need to start thinking about things like backups, etc. The main part of my website is all in subversion, so it gets backed up (at least replicated) to several other machines regularly. Might have to do something like that for this after I get it all figured out.
I think the first thing I might talk about is how I got this all set up. I've wanted to run my own site for a while, but I've always been too stingy to spend any money on what is essentially a hobby. So here's what the current setup looks like. I have roadrunner coming into the house. That hooks up to the cable modem, and then to a WatchGuard SoHo firewall. I bought the firewall from Landmark when they closed the Austin office. It has a nice feature - it supports 'DynDNS', which is a web service that allows me to have a named internet address even though I don't have a static IP address. What that all means is that rather than having a measly 15 MB of space at tripod, I now have something like 20 GB. Out in the garage, in the heat, is a Dell 420 hooked up to that firewall. Seems to be working well so far.
Well, a bit late. I'm off to bed now.