Wanna talk about computers??

Well, okay... The website you are now visiting started off as a personal hobby project. Let me tell you the history :

It all started in 2000 with an old 486 and an article in PC-Active, a Dutch comp magazine.
At that time I was running Win NT 4 on a p233 and WinGate to provide my girlfriends (now my wife) machine with Internet. I spend more time checking out the attacks than doing something useful. The article in PC-Active was about a simple solution for Internet sharing and firewalling using Freesco. This was a nice solution for my problem.

I started with an i486SX and Freesco 0.2.7. Very easy to configure and maintain, although it took me some time to figure out how to get my NIC's to work properly and my IP address released. Once harddisk based, it was very expandable. I got the domain name registration for "roelse.com"  and started hosting my website by myself.  The system, based on Slackware (Linux kernel 2.0.37) ran a primairy DNS, web-, mail-, ftp- and ssh-server for about 12 years without any major maintance. It was moved from machine to machine< and hard disk to hard disk, but the OS was never reinstalled.

2000   i486SX/16Mb, Freesco floppy disk based, as router

2002   iPP200/32Mb, Freesco  hard disk based, HDD 850Mb and 10Gb as router, DNS, web-, mail-, ftp- and ssh-server

2003   iPP233/96Mb, Freesco  hard disk based, HDD 850Mb and 10Gb as router, DNS, web-, mail-, ftp- and ssh-server, and NAS

2005  P3-550/192mb, Freesco  hard disk based, HDD 10Gb as router, DNS, web- and ssh-server

2008   P3-550/192mb, Freesco  hard disk based, HDD 12.7Gb as router, DNS, web- and ssh-server

2012   P4-2800/1Gb, Freesco  hard disk based, HDD 12.7Gb as router, DNS, web- and ssh-serverFrom Freesco to Ubuntu: I received a new modem / router because I changed the ISP subscription (60/6Mbit/sec).

Time for some changes.

After   12 years running Freesco, I wanted a different setup. I upgraded the Dell with a 80Gb and 3T disk, and changed the 3 10/100Mb network cards for 1 Gigabit card. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, hustled some ports, messed up some scripts and I was back online!

2013   P4-2800/1Gb, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server, HDD 80Gb and 3Tb as DNS, web-, ftp- and ssh-server, and NAS . Updated to Ubuntu 14.04 in Sept. 2014

2014   P4-3000/2Gb, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server, HDD 500Gb and 3Tb as DNS, web-, ftp- and ssh-server, and NAS . Running 'roelse.com' and 'photoberto.nl'

2025    Pff, that's along time without major maintenance! But yes, times, they are a changing and so are my websites. After changing ISP (went from cable to fiber optics), I couldn't get my websites up and running due to the restrictions of the ISP. Finally, I decided to not host the websites myself anymore and have the web hosting done by a commercial party.

Some details from the past (2014): Dell Dimension 5000 Pentium 4, 3000 MHz 2 Gb ram 500Gb and 3Tb Realtek RTL8169 Gigabit Ethernet card Onboard video Onboard NIC (disabled) Onboard sound (not used) CD/DVD player