At home, most people probably have a computer. Some may have two. Where I'm at, there are about a dozen computers, depending on how you count them. This may seem excessive, perhaps even glutonous, but they all serve a purpose. Most of them are for running my domain, erikserver.com. There's also a few shared family computers, so it all evens out, I suppose.
erikserver.com is my own personal domain. I registered the domain with getdomain.com who acutally run through tucows. For a measely $26, I own my own .com. Internet connectivity is thanks to Shaw Cable. God bless cable. I use mainly a free operating system called NetBSD for pretty much anything. For the uninitiated, BSD is Berkley Software Distribution, a type of UNIX developed at UC Berkely back in the mid 1970's.
What's visible from the outside world? Apache, the webserver; sendmail my mail transport agent, BIND for dns and OpenSSH. Internally there's alot more going on, but its for the priviliged. A common theme here is no Microsoft software. Knowing what I know, I'd rather not run the risks of using anything from Microsoft, especially for servers. The recent CodeRed outbreak speaks for itself.
The myriad of computers pictured here was a computing cluster I put together as part of a System Administration course I took. The emphasis was on numbers as opposed to speed on any one computer. There's two machines running X-windows for developmenmt purposes. Research results available here.
