This blog is running on Moveabletype. It is an awesome piece of software. You should read their own company blog they started. It is a nice insight on a tech company.
Moveabletype runs run’s on linux if you didn’t know that already. For me Linux is still the wild west. I need to learn allot. With Gus’ help I got Moveabletype working on a Red Hat box when I first started this blog. For the past 6 months or so I have been running the blog off of Gus’ Mandrake Linux server. I had issues with my cable modem and using 2 box’s for web sites. I needed an IIS box for something and the port forwarding to the linux box was messy. it worked but I didn’t like to see the :port# in the URL.
Now with moveabletype 3.0 coming out this sprint (or so) I want to build another linux box to run my blog on. Gus’ machine is stable, and works great, but I am a tech guy. I should be able to host all my own stuff. I will need to overcome the same port forwarding issues I had before but now I have the resolve to figure them out, or so I hope.
This means breaking out the old dell desktop in my closet out and configuring my KVM again. This means less desk space and a messy living room again, but it also means I can be more flexible and have another server. If I can do this in VMWare I will, but I don’t know if I am ready to do a “production” system in VMWare yet. Hey, it may be my site, but it is a production environment to me. Updates on what I do as I do them!!!
This blog entry was written while listening to 100 Years from the album “The Battle For Everything” by Five for Fighting and Sympathy from the album “Gutterflower” by Goo Goo Dolls