After many years of faithful service, I’m retiring my server beethoven.  I got Beethoven back in 1998 and used it as my desktop system until 2001.  In 2001, I turned beethoven into a server and used it to host my website and some other sites/services.  It also served well as a router/dhcp server until recently.  Now, after almost ten years of service, I’m getting ready to lay it to rest.  For the time being I’m going to keep the system running, but only until everything is verified to be working on the new system.  After that, I’ll probably shut it down and keep it around as a backup server.

Keeping with the composer theme, my new server is named handel, and is a lot newer and faster (System Specs here).  I got the machine for a real bargain at a United Way garage sale at work and set it up with Ubuntu linux.

Anyway, I’m pretty excited- I’m hoping to be able to do a lot more with this system.