Nailchipper has risen from the ashes (again)! After a hard disk failure, I was hosting my domains and mail (my main mail account) from my living room. Now I have a new and bigger hard drive on nailchipper and I’ve been in the process of putting things back on the server. (minus the stuff I’ve lost).
It feels good to rebuild the machine. Sadly, some users lost data. It’s not clear how much though. After the crash we were able to tarball the var, etc, and home directories. Home was the only one that gave us problems during the tarball process. I have not extracted it yet, so I don’t know how much we lost there.
Much of my old content is not going up again. All those custom applications that I’ve built over the years (which were always incomplete) are being replaced with mature applications, which were not built by me. I plan on focusing on major projects and archiving the rest. I want to start posting about the process of starting Visudo and issues with keeping this machine running. I will also post software problems that I run into and their solutions. Maybe a few original ideas? Who knows.
The vision I have for nailchipper is a web community with free general web application. Nothing fancy. Hopefully my friends will continue to use nailchipper regularly as they have, but this time they will have complete and working applications. I do not care much for this project becoming big. It has been a pet project of mine now for almost 5 years. People who know me know nailchipper and that’s what I’ve wanted. Maybe now that I plan to stabilize it, other people might be interested in using it too? We’ll see.
The main nailchipper page will provide links to all the services provided by nailchipper and it will also have a “developers shack†in where I experiment with new projects and try and do something interesting. It will also have a link to this weblog. I plan to develop the main page fully with most content being static and update this page as often as possible.