Web site
details for www.bobrathbone.com
This
web site runs on two
Intel Pentium servers running
the Redhat
Linux 8.0 operating system. The servers are located
at my
office in the Netherlands. The web server software used
is
Apache 2.0. The site uses a combination
of
HTML,
DHTML,
Javascript,
XML and
PHP4 to provide
page content. A third web server located with a service
provider provides a limited backup service in the
unlikely event that both servers are off-line. The link
to the internet is achieved using an
ADSL modem with
ISDN as a backup.
The servers are located behind a firewall and I have
written software in
Perl
to monitor the status of the operational web server and
provide automatic fail-over to the standby server should
the primary web server fail. Switch-over also
generates a notification to both my e-mail and my
mobile
telephone that a switch-over has taken place. I
further monitor site usage using
Webalizer
web site monitoring software. The web pages were written
using primarily
Frontpage 2003.
I also run my own e-mail service on these two servers
using sendmail
as the mail delivery agent. This uses
POP to read e-mail and
SMTP for delivery.
For web-based e-mail I use the popular
SquirrelMail
web mail
program via an
IMAP
interface.
I have set up all of the components such as
Apache,
Sendmail,
DNS,
DHCP and wireless services for the
promotion of my own web-site and I am able to provide
these services to companies wishing to run either their
own
internet and or
intranet site.
I do this either through a contract or on a part-time
basis.
Using Perl
CGI scripts, HTML and WML, I have created a number
of WAP and
i-Mode web pages for mobile
telephones. Click on the mobile phone below for
more information and to see both
WAP and i-Mode simulations.
My flight planning page also makes use of
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) to provide
aeronautical information using
Web Services.
I monitor all of my servers and network equipment using
the
Nagios Monitoring Tool monitoring tool.
