deefs.net has been my playground for trying out new web-based technologies since 2000. It is also a place where I store information for myself and for friends.
As such, it probably has broken links and pictures, though I do try and keep it clean. Let me know if you see things that are broken, and I’ll get them fixed.
Server
deefs.net was originally run from Iceberg, a server that I had in my dorm room at Dartmouth. I was able to get a fixed IP address for it (primarily for the purpose of running NAVGAP, and wanted a permanent non-Dartmouth E-Mail address, so I eventually came up with this domain and put the first version of the site online.
After graduation, it had a brief stint on an old Solaris machine named Glacier, then lived on Avalanche from November ‘02 through January ‘05. Avalanche was my first decent-quality hosted server, which served me well until the hosting company starting having 10-hour+ outages every few weekends.
It then lived on Hurricane, a server in Florida, for about a year, alternated between Thunder and Lightning, two other hosted servers, and is currently on a new Avalanche, which replaced Thunder, and has been there since December ‘06.
Software
I have probably used over a dozen different technologies for posting web pages on deefs.net, from plain HTML to complete content management systems.
The current iteration of this web site uses Drupal. Past iterations have included static HTML, Server-Side Includes, Reflection 1 (my first CMS attempt), WebGUI, Reflection 2, and a simple (but powerful) Mason+mod_perl+Markdown combination.
Drupal is serving me rather well, so I’m rarely inclined to switch technologies these days, which is good, considering that the site now has many hundreds of pages on it, and it would be a pain to move.
