Wanna talk about computers??

Well, okay... The machine you are visiting now is my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server. It runs my two websites and some other things.

At the moment this is a Dell Dimension 5000. Let me tell you its 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 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 harddisk to harddisk, 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-server

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!

So... I'm running a nice and easy to control machine without keyboard, mouse or monitor, by using SSH and Samba. I got my own domain, and run my homepage REALLY from home. Here is an overview of the home network.