Sorry, it’s been a while since the last post. Real life interfered for some volunteers but still software toolchains were upgraded and we have migrated our authorative DNS servers to the new server
Our DNS server is tinydns . This has been our choice for a long time primarily for its ease of use, security (it breaks up the functions of content DNS and proxy resolving DNS).

For those who haven’t been following the news, DNS servers are generally configured to provide both proxy and content services in the same instance. This can lead to cache poisoning.

In terms of software upgrades, lighttpd is now at version 1.4.8 and the author has incorporated the sending of Cache-Control headers in mod_expire so we don’t have to use a workaround. We have also updated to PHP 5.1 and incorporated APC (Alternative PHP Cache) which is an opcode cache providing performance speedups