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The Hardware and Software Behind Mobleo.net

As promised here is a bit about the hardware and software behind Mobleo.net. There are currently three dual processor servers, all purchased on ebay, powering Mobleo.  They are the top three servers shown in the rack at left.

The web and database servers are both 1.4GHz Dual PIII Dell 1650's running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The web server has three 18 gig drives the first two are mirrored and contain OS and application and the third drive contains the logs. The database  server has three 36Gig drives. The first two drives are mirrored and contain the OS and database and the third drive is for database backups.  The third server is an old Intel ISP2150 also runs RH EL 4  and has dual 800Mhz PIII. This server handles email to the users Mobleo.net accounts.

The software is standard Apache, mod perl, and MySQL.

The servers are currently running in my basement here in Chelmsford Massachusetts on a T1.

If you have any specific questions regarding the hardware of software behind Mobleo.net let me know.

Introduction

Well I finally have some time to get a blog up and running. Between family and my day job there really isn't as much time as I would like for side projects.

Let me start off by introducing myself...my name is Tom Boilard I am the founder/developer/sole employee of Mobleo.net. Mobleo.net was beta launched at the end of August and many of you have been contacting me with comments, new feature requests, bug reports, etc. so I figured I would get a blog up and running. Seems like standard practice today anyway.

The idea for Mobleo.net came while I as at my day job as a programmer for a leading mobile phone music company. Since I am constantly accessing an ever changing list of bookmarks for testing and development purposes from my mobile phone I needed a tool that would make managing these bookmarks easy. And so the seeds of Mobleo.net were sown.

Originally Mobleo.net was just going to be a simple tool that allowed someone to  manage their mobile phone bookmarks from their desktop computer but the idea has grown. I have added the ability to share bookmarks with friends, released Mobilfier which, in a nutshell, reformats a websites HTML to better fit the small UI on a mobile phone (With the addition of the Mobilfier technology you can now bookmark/tag a page as you are viewing it). Also you can now access your del.icio.us bookmarks.

I still have many ideas in my head that I will be implementing over the next several months and I am hoping to see comments (positive or negative), feature requests, etc. from you so I develop the features that you would like to see. Please feel free to contact me if you have anything to say.

In my next post I will talk a bit about the hardware and software behind Mobleo.net but until then have a great day!