Long awaited(?) updates

I really should update this thing once in a while or give it up altogether. But b"H life has been
busy. Between the 9-5 and the evening/other work, plus a family life, things are kind of crowded.
I know, excuses, excuses. But the other factor is that honestly, other than work and day-to-day
living, not a lot has been happening.

I've been getting settled in to the (still) new 9-5 (hah) job. I've been making long term plans
to make life easier for Tzirel when she takes over more of the other business. Both are sort of
fun.

In my day job, I'm starting to see how I will fit in long term. Rather than being involved at
this point in new development, I'm more on the operations/client side, responsible for cleaning up
mistakes made, whether by us or by the clients, gathering information for reporting to the client,
and in general being responsive to short term requests. The whole thing is kind of exciting. I
can see where I will be an important part of the team as time goes on.

In the home business, I'm strongly considering moving to a more clustered approach in web hosting.
Rather than consider each box almost as a self contained web hosting service, I'm thinking in
terms of a mail server or two, a few web servers, a couple or three database servers, all working
together. I think this concept scales better. I'm also considering moving to FreeBSD, but that's
a little far fetched from where I sit, considering I've never even seen it. But the plans are
long term, so maybe I'll look at anyway. I downloaded the ISOs from the Internet and may install
it in place of RH 9.

Anyway, more later if I can.

Ta ta!

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