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After 15 years my good old server finally gave up on me and broke down. Not completely sure what pushed it over the edge because all the hardware still works perfectly and I was able to pull out all the data from the hard disk. But a week ago it just became unresponsive and refused to come back up after a reboot. I’ve been thinking about replacing it for years but I’m also a firm believer in “if it ain’t broken don’t fix it” … also I had a lot of more exciting stuff to do than to rebuild a server completely

I decided to start all over with new hardware, different OS, new mail system and new webpages instead of trying to recover the old stuff. The new hardware is a bit overkill for my needs so I’ve installed VMWare ESXi and made my new server a virtual machine. Not that I really need it but the snapshot ability is great if something breaks when I fiddle with things. The new OS I picked is CentOS. Gentoo Linux was my favorite for many years but I had one too many problems with Portage / Emerge and CentOS seems much more mature and well established. I’m also trying out Dovecot as my new mail server. It was recommended by a friend and so far it’s looking very promising.

After a week of setting up a new mail system and restoring all the old emails and accounts I had a few hours to set up a new Wordpress Blog and a few other of the old web sites. So consider this my return, hopefully I’ll be a bit more active on blogging this time