antiprocess.net

One of our biggest and most time consuming projects, our own self managed server, valontuoja.net is starting to form itself nicely.

Originally, parts of our little Hollow13 network was scattered around the internet on various servers. Sites of mine and the co-founder of H13 and dear friend, Jani, has lived on the same server since the early 2003, from the foundation of H13, but now we all, members of H13 and Valontuoja, relax on our own little piece of internet.

The server we are renting is a VPS, but it does the job well. As every new thing, we’ve had our problems, namely memory- and mysql-related, but everything has been running nicely for now as we upgraded the server a bit (we have now the memory and swap capacity × 4, processor speed × 2 and harddisc space × 2).

For me personally this has been an excellent learning tool. I’m just learning system administration, but what better way to learn than being able to run a live server, taking care of all the little things as they come by? Nothing beats the old conquer as you encounter-style.

The amount of websites that reside under the hood of Valontuoja at the moment of writing is 14 and the numbers are growing every month. Mostly the websites are Wordpress-powered blogs, but we’re hosting couple of band websites and artist portfolios as well.

The name Valontuoja originates from a CMX song “Aamutähti” on Discopolis-album. The name “Aamutähti” can be translated as “morning star” and what we are meaning by it is the planet Venus.

We have some community-related projects coming up some time soon and I’m really excited about them. Some of them has been announced a while ago and some that only resemble the original only by name. The projects will be mainly just get better at coding, but doing something useful as training.

As a side note; I’ll try to write something more often, but work and laziness has been keeping me away from doing it. Ok, that’s about it for the day.