Helvensteijn.com

The physical server on which my virtual server runs crashed yesterday around 21:00 CEST. Of course, my host was already on it by the time I noticed, but the problem was apparently somewhat complicated, so he couldn’t get the server back up ’till morning. Now that should have been that, but when the server was … Read more

Since I acquired the Virtual Private Server (VPS) this web site is hosted by, it has run Debian Etch. I know that Lenny is available for over half a year now, but I never felt like upgrading. I do regularly update, though. Wouldn’t want to miss any security fixes. So why didn’t I feel like … Read more

I just took my home server MemoryAlpha off-line. It used to do all sorts of things, but over time, I’ve moved most of it elsewhere. Actually, it was only serving a web site that nobody visited, and running an over-redundant IRC server. So I decided to shut it down altogether. It was just sitting there … Read more

I spent the last few hours copying everything from the old server to my new virtual machine. And a few minutes ago, I updated the DNS entry for the helvensteijn.com domain. It’ll take some time for the change to propagate across the internet, but soon, everybody should have this web site served by my new … Read more

Just two days ago, I received my new iMac. And this night, my new virtual machine went online. It will be running this web site in the near not-too-distant future. Right now, this site sits quite comfortably on a shared hosting account. However, shared hosting has its limits, and with a virtual machine (a so-called … Read more