ExoticA:Hosting
ExoticA is hosted with Mythic-Beasts who are kindly sponsoring the bandwidth needed for the site. They offer an excellent Mac Mini dedicated hosting service which is ideal for a low cost hosting solution. The Mac Mini is very small, so you can fit 8 in 3U of rackspace, but also they don't require a great deal of power. For more details please visit the Mythic-Beasts Dedicated Servers page. They also offer a Mac Mini co-location service.
Hardware
Web Server
- Mac Mini Core Duo 1.83ghz (First hosted on a Mac Mini 1333MHz G4 that died in 2009)
- 2GB Ram
- 500GB 2.5" Internal HD + 160GB External on USB
- 1000mbit Ethernet to Internet
Streaming/Mirror/Backups Server
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 (4x 2.33GHz)
- 4GB Ram
- 11TB of disk space - 5 x 1.5TB & 7 x 500GB SATA Drives (Hot-swappable)
Software
Web Server
- Debian 'Wheezy'
- NGiNX (Engine X) / Apache 2.2.x
- PHP 5.x
- MariaDB 5.x
The web server name is Malus, which is the genus for Apple :-)
Hosted Sites
The following sites are hosted on Malus
- AmigaGuide.org - XtC's waste of web space! :-)
- Bitfellas - Large demo scene community site
- artcity.bitfellas.org/ - Demo scene art/graphics site run by Bitfellas.
- Bitworld - Huge Amiga Demo Scene releases database with information on Amiga demo groups, releases, packs and more.
- Codetapper's Amiga Retro Site! - Technical information regarding the Amiga as well as interviews with famous programmers and more.
- ExoticA - This Site
- ExoticA Old - Old ExoticA site
- The Thalion Webshrine - Tribute site for the Games developer and publisher Thalion
- Wanted Team - Custom replayers and music rips from the Wanted Team
- joggler.exotica.org.uk - Linux Distributions for the O2 Joggler.
- www.jogglerwiki.com - Wiki and forum site with information about hacking the O2 Joggler.
- www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk - Project site for the XBMC Media Center for the XBOX1 Console.
- www.picade.org.uk - Forum / Wiki for users of the Picade (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pimoroni/picade-the-arcade-cabinet-kit-for-your-raspberry-p)
We mirror the following sites
- Ami Sector One - originally located at amiga.emucamp.com, but the domain name was not renewed.
- Amegas - original site seems to be no longer online. This was a small but nice site featuring a collection of music modules from featured artists.
- Amiga Coverdisks - this Amiga magazine coverdisks collection was located at amigacoverdisks.emuunlim.com but currently shows a "coming soon page".
- Nth Dimension - this Amiga magazine coverdisks collection was located at nthdimension.emuunlim.com but currently shows a "coming soon page".
- Borrowed Time - this Amiga site was located at borrowedtime.emuunlim.com. Mirror based on restoration from archive.org and other sources. Not 100% complete. If you have a full mirror of this site please contact us.
- zerohero - this Amiga cross development resource was located at www.zerohero.se but the domain has not been renewed and the site is offline.
- podcast.ubuntu-uk.org - We mirror the excellent Ubuntu UK Podcasts (just the audio files)
- ftp://ftp.exotica.org.uk/mirrors/geekgadgets/ - FTP Archive of Amiga Geekgadgets project
- ftp://ftp.exotica.org.uk/mirrors/aminet/ - FTP Mirror of the Aminet Amiga file repository.
- ftp://ftp.exotica.org.uk/mirrors/amigascne/ - FTP Mirror of the Amigascne demo collection (used by bitworld)
Mirrors of ExoticA
Archive mirrors have been kindly provided by
- ftp://hangar18.exotica.org.uk - Mirror provided by Spectral
- ftp://aero.exotica.org.uk - Mirror provided by BuZz
Pictures
And to finish with we have to have some pictures of malus. Malus is on the bottom left. (these are actually pictures of malus mk1 that has now been replaced).
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Mac Mini in Rack
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Closeup of Mac Mini in Rack
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Streaming/Mirror/Backup server
Site Admin
The main site admin can be contacted by emailing buzz [at] exotica.org.uk
External Links
- Mythic-Beasts - Main site for Mythic-Beasts hosting
- Debian GNU/Linux - Our choice of linux distribution