This page is served up by my Mac LC 475, which lives just under my desk:
My LC has a 25MHz 68040 CPU (updraded from the original fpu-less 68k), a mere 40MB of RAM and a 1GB hard disk. Thanks to NetBSD, an impressively efficient and frugal UNIX OS, this 1994 vintage Mac is still useful in production.
I decided it would be pretty cool to get a 1994 Mac serving 'Web 2.0' content, so I tried setting up a wiki. MediaWiki proved too slow, even using PostgreSQL and Wikipgdia. PhpWiki worked well, as did MoinMoin combined with Apache 1.3 and mod_python. Ultimately it was a little too slow to do anything useful with and I found that I didn't actually have a use for a wiki anyway.
I still liked the idea of using a 10+ year old server in production. Instead of a wiki, I thought that my LC might be more useful as a DNS server, so it's now the primary authoritative name server for my domains and also does DNS lookups for stuff on my LAN (using views). DNS is such a lightweight protocol, so it handles all my DNS traffic without breaking sweat - cool eh?
In order to get good performance from BIND, I removed Apache because of the huge tracts of RAM it was taking up. Then I found out that my little server was linked to from the Old Apple Web Server Directory, so I thought I should fly the 68040 flag, hence this page.
Instead of Apache, I tried Lighttpd and it's brilliant, hardly uses any memory at all - about 480kB!
While you're here, maybe you'd like to visit my homepage where you can find more Mac related stuff. Want me to host your email or web site? Take a look at toastputer.net.
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