"Frequently" Asked Questions

What is Laukaisualusta.com?

Laukaisualusta.com is learning and testing environment. Universities have often quite theoretical approach in teaching. This is not enough for me. I also want to master things in practise.

What does 'laukaisualusta' stand for?

Laukaisualusta is Finnish and means launchpad. First versions of Laukaisualusta.com were in Finnish. The domain name is a relic from those times.

Is Laukaisualusta.com just a webserver?

No, I'm running several virtual servers in a one physical machine. Webserver is only one of them.

What are the other servers?

There are 6 or 7 virtual machines:

• Two nameservers
• Webserver
• Mailserver
• Fileserver
• VPN server
• Sometimes others for testing purposes

What is the virtualization techology that is used?

I'm running VMware Server 2 on top of Centos 5.2 x64 host.

What kind of technologies are used in this website?

Webserver is running on Centos 5.2 x64 and uses Apache webserver and MySQL Database. Website itself is made with PHP, XHTML, CSS, SQL and AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML). I have designed and implemented a little framework using object-orientated features of PHP5. Website uses this framework.

What is the purpose of this website?

I made my first website when I was a 12-year old kid. Since then I have always been very interested in WWW. The purpose of this website is to be testing platform for my coding and to be on example of my skills.

What kind of hardware the host uses?

CPU: AMD Phenom II 920 2.8GHz

Motherboard: Asus M4N78 Pro

Memory: 8GB DDR2 800MHz (added 4GB more)