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Wed, 13 May 2009

19:01 – Now on faster hardware

The machine that used to serve this blog (an aging Sun Netra T1) had been starting to show its age for a while. Rock-solid hardware though it is, it really is no match for the bloated scriptware running websites in the 21st century.

It has now been replaced by a shiny multi-core amd64 machine from iXsystems.

As part of the move to new hardware, I decided to replace Apache with lighttpd and move some more stuff into jails. This should ensure that the beast continues to be fast even if stuff gets even more bloated.

This was a remarkably smooth ride.