the Spacewaster

Thought that I'd do my "walk through" of my installation this weekend, but I've been insanely busy this weekend, not only do "i" have a big launch due on tuesday, we also spent the weekend at my parents place.
It's been a good weekend with good food and good drink, but i have a bad conscience that i've spent so much time in front of the computer.

When I got this 256MB slice from [slicehost](https://manage.slicehost.com/customers/new?referrer=77c51813ac9d6ea90520d379bba60bc2) it was just to host one site (this one), and to act as a sandbox for me to excavate and build castles in.

But after a while, [Arctic Kelpie](http://arctickelpie.se) (our dog blog), [Igår Idag](http://igåridag.se)/[Yesterday Today](http://yesterdaytoday.org) (dormant) entered the scene, then my brother asked if I had some spare room for a couple of hes projects...

Since this wasn't the original intention, load was getting the better of this small slice, I had too many experiments running amok, and on top of that I was running Gentoo.

I still would be running Gentoo, but compiling large packages from source caused the server to swap out, and now I do not want to risk that, so I took a safe bet with Ubuntu - the overhead I can take.

Now I've been a tad more foreseeing and thought ahead, leaving room (and making it easier for me) to expand, my brother pitching in helps a lot too (it's now a 512MB slice).

I've taken notes along the way, and I thought that I'd share my install...

* Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
* nGinx, PHP, MySQL
* Munin
* PHPMyAdmin
* PostFix

Oh, and about the bad person thing... I nuked the old stuff, knowing that you should never delete things published to the intarweb, but I'll do the rewrites at a later time (shame on me!).