Hello everyone,
I'm pleased to announce that I was finally able to take some time and put together a brand new top-of-the-line Linux web server for all of the web sites that I run, including DannyStewart.com. Our current server is an ailing Windows 2000 Server model that is very unstable and hard to recover when it goes down. The new server is much nicer and a lot more stable, and I stayed up all night last night installing and configuring Ubuntu Linux to act as a web server. Already it's working
so much better than the Windows one we're on now, and in the span of a few hours, I configured the Apache web server, PHP, MySQL, FTP, outgoing e-mail, and more (which took me nearly two days straight to configure on the Windows server, and it doesn't even do e-mail). I've got a couple of test web sites on there at the moment and it's running very fast and without a hitch.
This weekend, I am hoping to move the server back into place at my dad's office and begin transferring all of my web sites to the new server. This will mean we'll be down for a few hours at some point this weekend (I'm not exactly sure when yet), but once we're back up, you all should notice a lot fewer problems and a substantial increase in speed. I will keep you posted on the details of the switch as soon as I am able.
Hope you all are looking forward to getting the new server in place as much as I am!
Thanks everyone!