I run this server myself, as an educational experience; I expect that a fair number of posts on this blog will relate to things I’ve learned while working on it. I’ll file these posts in this “Meta” category: blogging about blogging, as well as the other server stuff underneath it.

For now, here’s a list of the mechanisms on this server, many of which will soon be described in more detail in other posts:

• This blog, of course, but also a few other folks’ sites, including Gina’s foodie book club
• My webcam, and the image-processing stuff around it
• A backup mechanism that copies everything to my file server, as well as an offsite location, every night
• A setup mechanism that allows me to rebuild the server from scratch in about an hour, with no interaction
• A mail server, running Postfix, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, etc
• My MythTV backend, which will eventually replace my TiVo
• A Subversion repository (eventually I’ll set up external access to share more of what I’ve made)
• Various other web applications that I’ll describe later (buzzwords: Django & Trac)

The server runs Ubuntu Linux (currently, the Breezy Badger version); it’s a Dell SC-420 Pentium 4 box with 1G RAM and about 300GB storage.