This week has been an interesting one for Mac Mann. First off I built an AFP to NFS gateway using a Raspberry PI so my old macs running apple talk can share with my other systems via Samba. Also this weekend I moved the mac mann website “in house” on my own private proxmox cloud. Proxmox is a versatile virtualisation product at a fraction of the cost of VMWare. The free version does most things people (clustering, live migration) want but most importantly the backups do restore and work!
With bringing the website back to the Mac (proxmox is running on a mac pro). I needed some features I’d miss from the previous set up so today I built an NGINX (pronounced Engine X) server to cache but most importantly to automatically display a maintenance page whenever I reboot the webserver.
Stay tuned for more updates!