BluServ

BluServ is the foundation and origins of BluCoders , and it is merely a server (with good hardware) hosted and provided by ABK

The Origins

It all started out with ABK and TXX being up to taking a little leap of faith towards bigger things than the casual daily IRC-ing and coding. So they decided to test if they would be able to get servers up and running. They decided that

the criterias for success was that the boxes had to be operational, have at least half a day duration of uptime and have a corresponding domain (free ones counted, ABK had and still has http://bluserv.uk.to). The deadline was 3 days,

and if it did not work after that they'd just throw the project away, but at the time they could not foresee what this little pet project would evolve into....

On day two around almost midnight BluServ 1.0 and DBBServ was up and running with corresponding domains and a httpd (Apache), the project had been a success. At the time BluServ was running on 384 MB RAM, 800 Mhz, a 40 GB IDE Hard Disk Drive and 64 MB graphics card (ABK's first and oldest computer which in fact is a upgraded version of the original that shipped with Windows 95 back in the days originally), but the important part was that it functioned, no matter how slow it was.

So on the epic date of 08.08.08 BluCoders (though without any name at the time, it didn't become "BluCoders" until like over half a year later)

BluServ 2.0

Alas, this hardware couldn't suffice all of blu's need forever and therefore ABK bought new hardware to rebuild BluServ from scratch, and the hardware finally arrived on the 23rd December, 2008. The hardware cost around 5000 Norwegian Kroner and consisted of

Server Development

This little neat feauture began as an Idea ABK had about logging everything that happened to Blu