I have decided to retire Whitefall, and replace it with all brand new parts, the last couple of versions have been my old gaming machine.
This new server is going to have a quad core phenom, with 4GB of DDR3 RAM. The primary OS HDD will be 2 500GB Western Digital HDDs in a RAID 1+0 (mirrored with striping)
The OS im choosing this time round is Ubuntu Server (9.10 at time of posting). But the main difference this time is that i will be using virtual machines to sepeare things. This will mean that apache will be runnning on a VM, with all traffic forwarded too it.
I intend to write a rails app to control most of the server performing tasts like starting and stoping virtual machines, configuring virtual machines. Configuring apache and adding of new vhosts and most importantly performing system updates.
Of course this rails app will be up on git hub but i will be posting bits on here so anyone can repeat parts of it.
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