marknbev.com officially dead!

Well certainly an end of an era for me. With a touch of remorse, I turned off my server today. It had been parked behind my desk for the last three years, and when I powered it off, my head started to throb as it had to adjust to the missing fan noise.

I've been on the path of simplifying things for a few months now, mostly driven by the fact that we were moving. But even though we've decided to stay, I still recognize that it's well worth continuing the effort.

I hadn't been doing anything with the server for quite some time now, I moved my email off of the domain a few months ago, and I stopped doing software updates increase my own risk to vulnerabilities. It was time for it to go, and Igor letting me "borrow" his unused Netgear wireless router was just the excuse I needed.

The mess behind my desk... marknbev.com!

Three years of uptime, it was seriously sad to turn it off.

I managed to replace all of this...

...with this.

Sometime in the future, I plan on replacing our desktops with laptops. I'll also buy a raid 1 disk enclosure with print server, so I can have central storage and move my printer into the garage. That'll let me get rid of two desks, which are only around to stick a computer next to!