What is reusch.net?

This server is the brainchild of Jason Reusch and Allen MacKenzie. Both needed a place to host their personal domains, but were too cheap to pay for real service and thought it would be fun to tinker with GNU/Linux.

This is actually the fourth server, the first was a Pentium 100 with a 1GB hard drive. It was repalced after a few months with a Pentium 166 that lasted about two years until the Winter of 2002. From there a PIII 500 with 384MB RAM and a 20GB hard drive took over for just over three years until the current server came into being.

There is also a backup server which has been around since about July 2004. It rsyncs to this server every night and takes daily snapshot backups.

Click here to install our CA cert (click Open then 'Install Certificate'). Installing this cert says that you trust all the other certificates signed by us. This will get rid of the annoying security prompt for webmail.

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Recent News:

Jason Reusch	3:53 pm - Nov 14, 2007
A brief outage of about two hours occured yesterday when the file system went into read only mode. A reboot and fsck brought things back online. The drive logged a few bad sectors. The drive may be on a death march. A new server is available and the plan is to set it up at home with Ubuntu 7.10 and migrate to it.
Jason Reusch	9:53 am - May 4, 2007
SpamAssassin upgraded from 3.1.8 to 3.2.
Jason Reusch	6:01 pm - Feb 14, 2007
SpamAssassin upgraded from 3.1.7 to 3.1.8.
Jason Reusch	9:25 pm - Jan 1, 2007
The upgrade completed on Saturday. If you experience any problems you suspect may be related please email me. This was probably the last upgrade of Fedora. Now that the FedoraLegacy project is defunct it will be necessary to upgrade about every 9 months. That's a little to short a cycle than I'm comfortable with. Practicing and executing these upgrades is very time consuming. Expect a move to another distribution, Ubuntu is the leading candidate at the moment. Ubuntu promises at least an 18 month upgrade cycle and as long as 5 years with an LTS release (see Ubuntu.com). As usual, I'll practice the move on a test server first so the disruption should be minimal. I also expect this will be the last version of the server that exists as a physical server. Future servers will most likely be Xen virtual machines.
Jason Reusch	12:50 pm - Dec 15, 2006
This server and all services will be down starting about 6AM on Saturday December 30th while the operating system is upgraded from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6. I expect the process to be complete by about 9AM, but it could go longer.

For more news, see the News Archive...