My desktop computer, which has functioned pretty well up to now,
has started to shut itself off at random. I think the fan is giving
out and the BIOS is switching the machine off when the temperature
gets too high. Because its been going down so often, I've moved the
web serving tasks over to another machine. Blogs, photos, and
Subversion repositories are now off of my desktop machine, and onto
one running Ubuntu 5.04 "The
Hoary Hedgehog". At the same time, I updated Serendipity to version 0.8. They are now using Smarty for templates, which is
good.
While doing this, I fixed it so that the default page for virtual
hosts that aren't set up is the spacemonkeys one, rather than the
Larson family reunion. I also put our blogs at anthology.spacemonkeys.ca
and rantastic.spacemonkeys.ca,
but the old URL's still work. I also made a virtual host for our photo
albums, gallery.spacemonkeys.ca.
The old URL still works for that one too.
A side effect of this change is that everyone who uses our RSS
feeds probably just got spammed, as all the entries will show up as
being new. Sorry.
Hopefully this change will mean less web server downtime, since a)
the machine doesn't shutdown at random, b) I won't be updating it and
breaking things all the time.
