In case anyone is at all interested, here's the technology behind rainton.com: |
Hardware | |
Erm... this is interesting as rainton.com currently runs on a VPS (Virtual Private Server) under UML (User Mode Linux). What does this mean? Well, basically, we have full root access to what looks like our own Linux box, with which we can do as we like. Actually, the underlying machine is somewhere in the realm of a 2.4Ghz P4 with a couple of GB of RAM. And this is what's great about a VPS - although we only ever get 112MB of that memory (plus 64MB swap - which doesn't sound a lot but is fine for web serving and mail hosting) we're guaranteed a small percentage of the CPU, but in reality can 'burst' up to almost the full speed of the host machine. Of course, when other VPS' on the same box aren't maxing it out. Supplied by RimuHosting and sat in an EZZI.net datacentre BTW... Cool, huh? | |
OS | |
Well, seeing as we're running UML the OS on our VPS is obviously Linux. This originally started life as RedHat 9, kernal 2.41 but a lot of the packages have been removed (sorry RedHat, but RPMs still don't work so well). | |
Software | |
The following are essential to running of this site:
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