The 10-year-old PC that I’m currently using to host this site seems to be going through an end-of-life crisis. If you’re reading this then it must currently be up (or you accessed Google’s cached version), but there’s no guarantee it will stay that way. So don’t be surprised if this blog is intermittently down for the next few days. If it does go down, Google’s cache of the entire Internet is a good place to look.
And no worries, I’ve already ordered the parts for a replacement box. It will be an Atom D510 based server, with a meager 60 GB SSD, and it should be anywhere from 2-3 times as fast as the current aging server while using less than one-third as much power and running in complete silence. Progress is awesome sometimes.
I had really wanted to wait and build an AMD Brazos based server (would be about 50% faster than the Atom D510 while using a comparable amount of energy), but the replacement needs to be put in place sooner rather than later, and there are currently no Brazos chips/boards available here in Australia. Oh well. I’ll still have a bit of fun assembling, testing, and configuring the Atom box. Maybe I’ll add a quick post documenting the process, as well.