So I’ve spent most of my free time in the last month migrating all my old code from a shared hosting environment to a virtual server, where I effectively have root control of a freebsd server and manage it from the ground up. This has meant I can now do things like run mod_perl, fiddle with (and bounce, and bounce) apache, and get dedicated static IPs to run SSL (https) from. This has meant setting up these service from scratch (ok, from the very good scratchings on the FreeBSD port’s tree) and porting my code over. Luckily I started writing it with mod_perl in mind (back before my one and only test server died and I moved to a shared host) so there isn’t much work on that end. Then early this week I got another (virtual) server so that I can fully break out production and development, but that means I took a day off to sleep and finish grooming the new production server and configuring everything…

Which leads to me buying ”Practical mod_perl” to have the text on hand, which leads to paying $3.00 for the book, $7.00 for expidited shipping, and receiving a $50, 900 page technical reference off amazon partners. Sweet.

It also raises the question of what to do about a mail server. Poo.