Intro
This is a page of past and present servers that have been owned by me.

Virtual Box

Host	Unknown, out of buisness
Processor	Unknown, felt like a dual 3.0 Xeon with HT.. Hehe.
Memory	Virtual, 256 MB
HD1	20 Gig Virtual, Networked Drive
OS	Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
Make	Unknown, ran off VMWare
Usage	January 2005-March 2005
Software	IIS6, PHP4 ISAPI, mySQL4, MS DNS, hMailServer, Terminal Services

A server which was really a virtual process within VMWare virtual machine software, which generally pretends to be a PC on a pc, so you can run linux, windows, etc, all at the same time.

Was really fast, except for hard drive writes. Using mysql cache and zend accellerator helped overcome the problem. This was perhaps the best host we ever had. Unfortunately, backups were made only localy on the machine, and then the server went down one day, never to return. No e-mail was ever returned. Lost a month worth of work on NDC because of this.

MICKSAM7's HP PC

Host	micksam7, on Comcast
Processor	900 MHz Intel Pentium 3, ran at 600 MHz due to mainboard limitations.
Memory	256 MB
HD1	80 GB
HD2	80 GB
OS	Windows 2000 Professional
Make	HP Pavilion 8650C, Upgraded
Usage	March 2005-May 2005
Software	Apache2, PHP5 Apache Module, mySQL4, Posadis DNS Server, hMailServer

After that, and waiting a week while me and spling were planning on what to do to replace it, we decided to do a dual-server setup. My computer served NDC, and my own site, and spling did NDC's images and the like.

Obviously it was slow, but we did manage to setup the BP v3 System on ndc during this.. eventually. The servers couldn't handle too much, and we looked to alternatives. Soon, we ran into Sagonet, which I paid for entirely except for $100 spling sent so I can actually have some money to spend on other things. [It was $150 originally spling!! -.-]

The B00x

Host	Sagonet.com
Processor	2.0 GHz Intel Celeron
Memory	1 GB
HD1	80 Gig - Per-user partition
OS	Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
Make	Unknown, Dell
Usage	May 2005-September 2005
Software	IIS6, PHP5 ISAPI, mySQL4, MS DNS, hMailServer, Terminal Services

Ahh, the B00x, a nice first dedicated machine that we used for quite a while. This was a awsome little server we got from sagonet for only $85 a month. spling was suppose to send $150 at the end of the summer, which I planned on using for my own purposes as I already have dedicated most of my money for the server. Anyway, eventually due to my promise to myself to cancel the box if spling never sends that $150 [as it was already 2 months overdue], the box was canceled and replaced with my next server. spling did eventually send the money, but he was 2 days too late as I already built the replacement and wanted to use that.

MIB00x

Host	micksam7, on Comcast
Processor	900 MHz Intel Pentium 3, ran at 600 MHz due to mainboard limitations.
Memory	256 MB
HD1	20 GB
HD2	8 GB
OS	Windows Server 2000 Standard
Make	HP Pavilion 8650C, Broken Apart
Usage	September 2005-Current
Software	ISS5, PHP5 ISAPI, mySQL4, MS DNS, hMailServer

This was the replacement. My old pc as I finnally decided to build a new one. Things I took out of it were replaced with older parts. It works, except for the occational failure of some random peice of hardware. At first we got tons of server crashes, and we wondered why. Turns out Googlebot found my kahvi mirror and was eating all the 6 MB files on it which generally killed my bandwidth. After placing a robots.txt file up, the crashes stopped and the server was pretty stable. I also had NDC's images moved off to another server donated by Extremer from neoextreme.com. The server currently resides in my laundry room, trying to be nice to the limited bandwidth comcast gives us. I hope to replace it soon with a more powerful server, but it will work for now.


Windows??
Yeah, I'm a windows fan. I find it very stable if you know what your doing. :) Most of all, I'm use to it and know how to keep things secure. And belive it or not, I find better performence on Windows Server 2003 then any other linux server I have used, even with mysql and php. I admit, older MS server systems were extremely unreliable, but Windows Server 2003 is down right awsome. I do use Linux, but I'd rather use windows. :) I know how to use Apache and all too, but I perfer IIS because it's quite simple to configure, more use to the GUI, I guess. And for those who think Microsoft is some strong, corperate monopoly.. well.. you may be right.. but I don't really care much at the moment. :)