TheShulers.com

The Shuler Family Website

About Our Site

I've had several questions regarding how we run this site so I decided to make a page explaining everything.

This site is run with the following:

A Netfinity 5500 M20

  • A broadband Internet connection via Time Warner's RoadRunner service. We have a personal account and receive one dynamic IP address.
  • Domain name management using EasyDNS.com. When our IP changes, which only happens when the router goes down, I visit EasyDNS' management pages and set our new IP address.
  • A Linux server that runs on an IBM Netfinity 5500 M20 with-
    • quad 500MHz P3 Xeon processors
    • 768MB RAM
    • 6 SCSI hard drives in 2 RAID arrays
    A rackmount APC SmartUPS 1000 powers the Netfinity's redundant power supplies.
  • The Linux version is RedHat 7.3 with a 2.4 kernel.
  • The Tomcat Java application server runs our website, which contains dynamic server-side executed code written in Java. Ever wonder how our pages always display the correct time? The web pages are generated by Java on the fly, that's how.