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[mpeters@salt ~]$ uptime
 10:19:14 up 1 day, 16:54,  1 user,  load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00

I haven't rebooted it since installing the OS and then removing monitor/keyboard and moving it to it's headless location.
No problems, it's running cool, I think it's going to work out.

There are some SMART errors with the hard drive I put in - but they only occurred at system boot and haven't occurred since.
It does mean I probably should order a new drive next time I newegg something, the errors may mean it is beginning to die.

It's currently running a mirror of my web site - once it day it rsyncs data submitted to the production server and the daily database backup, and I have bluefish installed on it with X11 forwarding over ssh so I can do my web dev on it directly and then rsync the updates to production server.

This is really nice. I've primarily been a CentOS man but some of my customers have been hinting they want Ubuntu based hosts for me to admin, so I'm playing with Ubuntu locally and finding I don't like it much for a server (mainly because "I never did it that way before" )but I absolutely love it for a desktop. So now I don't have to reboot into CentOS on my local machine to edit and test my remote web site.

Last night I updated the site, changing how media is embedded (now inserted directly via object tag instead of via JavaScript), so I had a bluefish window open over the network for about 12 hours, and absolutely no problems, the connection was stable.

Ubuntu is the OS where I have the most browsers, including Google Chrome and the Gtk+ Webkit browsers, so being able to point Ubuntu at the devel server is nice.

Part of my update to my embedMedia class allows me to make a single change sitewide and it will use html5 media as default with flowplayer (flash) as fallback. Since last time I tested, Google Chrome now supports html5 media for Ogg Vorbis / Theora, but not yet for h.264 or mp3 (though it does show the control bar, and plays mp3 if you go to file directly).

The Gtk+ Webkit browsers still do not support html5 media (and do not use fallback either) but they do now display the poster for video if you defined one, so they are getting there.

I did turn off APC cache on the devel machine (want changes to code to be instant, and not have cached content served instead) and turned on error reporting, and of course it is using a self signed SSL cert instead of properly signed, but other than that - the installed software and configuration is currently configured in identical fashion to my production linode.

Next test - I'm going to see how well it serves a 1 GB mp4 over the network. I missed Sons of Anarchy last week, but I have it as 720p h.264 - so that will be a good test. Not really a fair test since the media will be sitting on same drive as OS rather than external separate disk, so if swapping happens it could stutter from disk arm competition, but I suspect it will buffer fast enough that that won't be an issue. If it doesn't work, it may be single disk issue. If it does work, then I know it has the umph to do what I need it to do.