ChrisCodes.com

This site gets quite a bit of traffic, lots of spider and bot traffic.

Pretty much any given time of the day I can login, tail the log, andsee one of Yahoo Slurp, MSNbot, Googlebot, Ask Jeeves, and more suckingdown the many many Amazon content pages here.

Previously I hosted the site on a shared server, which was so so. Lastbig chunk of down time, I moved the site home to a little P4 2.8gzrunning Debian. It was my development server previously, but since I've been working at the office, or on the iBook lately, I figured why not run my site on it.

Unfortunately, a few days before I decided this, I had decided to upgrade from Sarge to Sid for that same reasoning. But my site was down, and had been down for a few days, so I bit it. That was the reason for the new design, I had been working on a new layout on my test server, and didn't feel like reverting back, so if you're using IE, you're probably thinking the layout sucks. I think IE sucks, so we're equal. ;)

So all was well. The great EveryDNS.net was translating all requests for chriscodes.com to my beefy Comcast cable internet connection, the site was back up, and the new layout had an advanced push out.

Then came the CPU temperature errors. Something in SID was living up to it's name (unstable).

Long story short, the site has been moved temporarily to an old 400Mhz iMac G3 running the latest Ubuntu PPC.

Not sure how it's responding for you, but in my limited testing, it's been quite responsive. Some of the Amazon API pages can take a minute, but most locally driven pages are quick.

I'm going to copy my logs off, and reinstall Sarge on the P4 to hopefully rid myself of CPU temperature messages in the syslog. That is, unless this little guy seems to keep up to speed.