Over the holidays, I did a bit of server housekeeping. A few upgrades here, a migration or two there, etc.
The brunt of this effort was moving the last of my applications off of my very old leased server, and onto an openSUSE 11.0 Xen image hosted at Linode.com. Linode enables you to provision new images based on the Linux distribution of your choice in almost no time flat, so all-in-all, this was a very pleasant experience, with most of my pain being caused by forgetting all kinds of things I wanted to keep from the old server (Why did I have so many SVN repositories configured in different places?)
The most visible change for readers will be the migration of the blog to Graffiti CMS v1.2. I’ve been playing with Graffiti on Mono off and on for several months, and, having been pleased with its performance on Mono 2.0, I felt like it would be nice change of pace. It has many nice features, but mostly, it’s just simple. Thanks to the embedded VistaDB instance, deployment was little more than downloading and unzipping the application, and configuring apache to serve the blog.
