We’re finally back online after about 10 days with no website or email for fidean. Our old web & mail server machine died, probably a motherboard failure, after 8 years of faithful service. Considering it spent the last 3+ years in a dusty closet running constantly, it certainly earned it’s keep.
Uncle Peter generously provided the new server machine, a real Sun server that isn’t any newer than what it replaced, but is a whole lot more robust. Since this was a whole new setup, i had to install and configure a lot of things to get the website and mail services back to where they were under the old system. This is also a slightly different kind of operating system, so it took a few days to learn my way around and get it all together.
Let us know if there’s anything about the website that isn’t working. Aside from the e-card system and a handful of movies that we need to replace (i couldn’t recover them from the old drive), everything should pretty much be ok.
The good news about the new machine is that we should be able to do nice things like stream movies, which should help anyone looking at the site with a slower connection see them easier. I’m also thinking of maybe adding an online forum - let me know if you’re interested. If anyone in the family wants space for their own website, just let me know and i can get you set up.
