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It all started so simply. During the winter of 2001, Stephen
started building a lab of network equipment for teaching and experimenting. He haunted
eBay for weeks picking up a piece here and a piece there.
When the lab came together and he turned it all on together for the first time, we realized
that something interesting had come to pass, and it wasn't just an increase in the household
electric bill. The House of Hum was born.
Things were quiet for a while -- if you're the type who's so inured to the hum of fans that
as long as the phone isn't ringing you consider it quiet -- but in late July 2002 we got talking
about a domain to host all of our stuff. A number of names were thought up, checked
(most were taken), and discarded. NoseLeather.com was a contender but was taken.
ItchyBrain.com was a contender and wasn't taken, but HouseOfHum.com got
the nod.
So, on Thursday August 1st, 2002 we registered HouseOfHum.com. Stephen built
the server panic.houseofhum.com -- panic is the
box's canonical name, www is just an alias -- and enlisted the help of
Brian to get our DNS entries done, and on the morning of August 2nd the world could
browse to www.HouseOfHum.com.
In the intervening years, there have been several changes in House of Hum's web server
hardware and location. HoH is now running on a Dell OptiPlex PC
(alpha.houseofhum.com) housed at a secure
undisclosed location at the end of a DSL line.
Server stats (alpha.houseofhum.com):
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OS
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Linux version 2.2.19
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Web server
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Apache/2.0.52 (Unix)
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Processor
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730MHz Intel Pentium (1454.89 BogoMIPS)
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RAM
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384MB
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Disk
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15GB Maxtor 51536H2 EIDE
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Domains hosted:
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This is what got it all started.
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