I may bring this website down for a bit of spring cleaning this weekend.  It’s been running without problem for somewhere close to six years, and in that time I’ve let it get a bit messy, as well as nearly filling the 60gb drive that it’s got in it.    I’ve got a cheap 160gb drive sitting on my desk, and have been intending to upgrade for some time, and I might just get around to it soon.

The webserver itself is running FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE on a mini-itx motherboard with a 1ghz Via Nehemiah processor with 1gb of memory.  I’d consider a hardware upgrade except that there is no real point:  the server loafs along with loads of well below 0.10 most of the time.   Providing web services simply isn’t that big of a deal.  The main question that I have to answer is whether to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.2, or to just continue the trend that I have towards running Ubuntu everywhere and just go to that.  I’ve kind of got a bug in my bonnet about running my webserver in either a FreeBSD jail or perhaps a Linux VServer to provide some degree of isolation and protection, but I haven’t got a strong feeling one way or the other.  Opinions?

[tags]FreeBSD, Linux, Upgrade, Downtime, System News[/tags]