About 3 years ago I migrated from FreeBSD to Windows 2008, because I was unhappy with the manageability. Most of this dissatisfaction with the manageability was due to my own lack of effort and interest at that time. Last year I switched back to FreeBSD with a renewed passion: this time I would make it work; and I did!
My server has been running flawlessly for almost a year on FreeBSD 8.2, and I'm very satisfied. There is however always room for improvements, and optimizing stuff is somewhat of a hobby (though some might call it an obsessive-compulsive disorder ) of mine. Recently FreeBSD 9.0 was released, with a couple of new features that really interest me. I could just upgrade to this newer version on the fly, but I've decided to drive to the datacenter and install it from scratch.
The main reason for this is that FreeBSD 9.0 has a big improvement on the file system which I'm very keen on using. However, updating a file system "on the fly" is just something that I'm not willing to do just yet, So tomorrow is road trip-time. If I've got the time, I might take some pictures or maybe record some video while I'm at the datacenter.
With the new version of the operating system I'm also making some changes to the way stuff works on my server. These changes will include switching to high-performance web-server software, tightening up security even further without compromising performance, rewriting some code for the website and adding a decent CMS for my site. I might make tutorials, editorials, etc for each of those individually though.
But first things first: Road-trip tomorrow!
Riddle30Shauna on Thursday May 24th, 2012 at 04:24.“All people deserve good life and credit loans or bank loan would make it much better. Just because freedom is based on money state.„