Server Hardware
- Apple Power Macintosh G4 ("Quicksilver" model, 733MHz, 2001)
- 1 GB PC133 SDRAM
- 60 GB 7200 rpm hard drive
- 1000 Mbit/s uplink to CWRU backbone
- 45 Mbit/s uplink to Internet (shared with 12,000+ users)
Server Software
- Mac OS X client (10.3.3)
- Apache 1.3.29
- PHP 4.3.2
Site History
This site was first created in the Fall of 2001 for a class in Multimedia Systems that I was taking. I had toyed around making web pages before that, but I had never made anything I considered to be worth keeping. For posterity, I've also preserved the original design.
The original version of the page was designed primarily to satisfy the requirements of a class assignment. It was plain vanilla HTML with very little in the way of unified site design. My primary usage of the site over the years has been to host my extensive photography collections, which are generated by an AppleScript that came with the system.
Lately I've been exploring new ways to make my site a bit more useful and a bit more modern. After taking a class called Web Systems Integration, I am more aware of how Apache works under the hood. Since then I've become extremely interested in learning about the role of web standards. All of my new pages use proper CSS-based layouts, avoiding tables except when appropriate (like tabular data!). I now run four sites from this server via Apache's virtual hosting and some CNAME voodoo care of the Case DNS guys. I'm comfortable writing with HTML (and SHTML), CSS, Perl, and PHP. I've played with two blogging packages for other sites I've built, including Moveable Type and pMachine. One of these days when I get time I'm going to replace the front page of the site with a blog of my tech nerdiness and get rid of the current four-image scheme that's left over from the original design.