Date:  2022-11-26
Time:  00:49:14 EST
Title: Rebooting my home gopher server
Hey all! It's been a minute. Well, more than that - over a year! In this past 
year I've moved jobs, states, and, most importantly, servers. It's time to 
retire the old Core2Quad server that used to host my Gopher server. Heck, 
nvidia drivers no longer support it's old, old graphics card. Anyway, in my 
shiny new state of Maryland, I found a shiny new old computer that would become 
my current web server. I found none other than a Core i5 desktop with 10GB of 
RAM (and no HDD, of course) in the apartment trash along with a perfectly good 
ViewSonic monitor with HDMI, VGA, and DVI inputs. These would become the core 
of the server hosting the gopher hole you are perusing now, though thanks to 
upgrades it got two hard drives, 16GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA Quadro K420 
graphics card. By far, it's the best computer I've ever had, probably most 
likely due to the vast RAM space. 

With the rise of yet another new Gopher client (for Palm OS) recently developed 
by the great Cameron Kaiser of Floodgap Systems himself, I thought it was time 
to migrate the old Gopher server to its new Maryland home. Doing so was far 
easier than expected, just requiring the quick install of Gophernicus and 
copying files over SCP. I can't wait to add new features to the server, 
especially news (RSS feeds), weather, internet radio playlists, a guestbook, 
and archives of old computer software, especially for Palm OS. I will focus on 
posting life stuff on the SDF phlog (mainly bike ride stories and previews of 
my weekly radio show) while focusing on tech things here, especially new 
features added to the server and what it took (heh) to add those features.