I have invested some time and money into acquiring my own web platform which I will be using to host my upcoming websites for myself and for my clients. I have called my new system Titan, after the people who bought it, and because a Titan is a powerful deity; Titan is both powerful and omnipresent (provided you have a web connection).
I’ve spent the day assembling my components and installing Debian Etch 4.0. The system is a dual-core, dual-CPU AMD 64-bit Tyan Transport GT24, with 16GB RAM and 1TB RAID. So far, I’m happy with how the system is holding out, although I had a bit of bother deciding on how to handle the RAID functionality. It turns out that the RAID capacity of the controller is what linux geeks refer to as ‘Fake RAID’, because it is not a true hardware RAID controller that presents the seperate disks to the OS as one array; so I was confused when Debain was showing all four disks. In the end, I used a software RAID 5 setup, which is working rather well.
Ultimately, Titan will be handling all of the traffic for my band’s upcoming music website…. more on that soon. However now that I have the capacity to host some extra sites I will be able to take on some hosting arrangements, and I plan to host the websites I will be developing in future.