Last weekend I spent most of my free time revising the configuration of the server. This time my sole intention is to further improve the allocation of resources (mainly memory) to the various services. This involves a lot of testing, graphing and note taking as some of the currently used software needs to be fine-tuned or to be replaced by other similar software, which I expect to perform better on the server’s old hardware. As most of these changes take place directly on the server that serves this website, you might experience random periods of downtime during the next 1-2 weeks. Do not worry; that will be normal.

This time I’ve decided to be a bit more radical than the other times I modified the configuration of the services, but I expect good results. Time permitting, in the upcoming months, I will share my findings by posting articles containing information about the changes I made and the results I got. Also, during the last three years, I’ve written numerous scripts that automate every operation that happens on the server, including backup, log archival and analysis, notifications, maintenance tasks, reporting etc etc. I feel that it is about time I start releasing them. As usual, they will be released as FOSS under the Apache License version 2.

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