After ten years of physical boxes in Telehouse I’m moving to a virtual Linux instance hosted on Debian. It’s an opportunity to review the software I’m running. Out goes Apache2 in favour of Lighttpd. SquirrelMail, you served me well but RoundCube is full of AJAX goodness and more importantly can display HTML emails.
Courier IMAP, I always hated you, and was very happy to discover Dovecot. Postfix and BIND, you remain. Behind the scenes I’m running Samba bound to an internal IP address that’s routed via a VPN to my home LAN. The VPN also lets me forget about securing individual services such as PostgreSQL and Subversion, they’re also VPN accessible only and at home or on the road I can access them conveniently without passwords.
For backups, I’m experimenting with AmazonS3 mounted via FuSE and rsync.
As should be fairly obvious I’m using WordPress to run my blog.