// There is no place like 127.0.0.1
I have decided to host my blog myself and thought I report about some highlights ;). The reason why I haven't bloged for a long time was actually a configuration issue of the old setup which confused <myDomain>/myBlog with <myBrother'sDomain>/myBlog. Selfhosting is also a nice opportunity to play with enterprise software at home in a regular basis.
I initially evaluated OpenSolaris since I was really eager to try out ZFS. But I decided to stay with Ubuntu 9.04 server edition (aka jaunty jackalope) since I already use the desktop version for my workstation. The other reason was the lower memory footprint of Ubuntu (256MB) compared to OpenSolaris (512MB) which is relevant if you run your site on over 10 years old hardware like I do.Ubuntu has great software repositories which just provide everything to get started (e.g Sun JDK6.13 and in theory also glassfish, netbeans, eclipse, your favorite database etc but I prefer zip files in some cases ;) ).
Installation with gimmicks like Software RAID (RAID 1), firewall configuration went flawlessly. The combination GlassFish2.1 + Roller 4.0.1 + hsql 1.8 worked also on first attempt.
a few thing I noticed:
- 5 years ago the whole process would take far longer than two evenings
- -XX:OnOutOfMemoryError=<send me a mail command> (since java 1.6) is really cool
- Cloudcomputing is overrated (web services should always be weather independent)
- There is no place like 127.0.0.1
don't worry the upcoming entries should be more technical - this is mostly a test ;-)