Tonight at 10:20 MST marked the switchover of Typhoon from 8+ year old hardware to ~4 year old hardware (with updates along the way). Now Typhoon is running on my old desktop hardware, so dual xeon 2.4's (of olden years, not as fast as today's 2.4ghz procs), along with 3gigs of RAM (i hope it never has to swap), and the 400gb hard drive. My new desktop specs aren't really anything special, an Allendale 1.6ghz dual core... currently oc'd to 3.2ghz (yes, double... and yes, it's stable!), with only 2gigs of ram, but a nice 1tb hard drive.

So what then does this mean for Typhoon? Well, here's a quick list of things that are new:

• Faster processing time. Still constrained by the 894kbps uplink speed, so most things aren't going to be noticeably faster.. but the JSP's (blogs - like you're reading now), and the new photo stuff may be snappier.
• Roundcube, instead of IMP. I can install IMP if citizens of typhoon (that would be naomi) request it. This might be a bit faster now too.
• public directory moved to /public instead of /home/public, since it's not really a user - and I want to be able to backup things in /home without grabbing all of /public. Unless you have a user account, you don't care about this.
• Tomcat 5.5, and MySQL 5 - updates from Tomcat 3.3 and MySQL 4.1. *most* everything else worth noting was already running the latest version before. And, I think only Tim or I would care about these upgrades, and even then, probably not. I'm moving towards using PHP for stuff, because, well, Tomcat is a pain in the arse to configure. And the Java security stuff is equally painful.

Old typhoon still exists, so in the event something got missed in the transfer of data, I can pull it off, just let me know (email probably best). I made a script to perform all the updates a "split second" before pulling old typhoon off line, so all the home dirs (email) should be up-to-date. This is the first time Typhoon has undergone any such changes since inception, back in september of 2002! Goodbye Celeron 800(/533)!!!