The site is hosted on WordPress.com since August 2017. Prior to that it was hosted on various Macs running out of my house over my Xfinity cable connection. As my life and career advanced I became less interested in maintaining all of the software and hardware on my machines so I shifted to a hosted model.
Before moving to WordPress.com, the site ran on a 2006 MacBook with a 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo processor, 2 GB RAM, and a 320 GB hard drive. It ran Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard (the latest supported OS) and a MacPorts installation of Apache 2, MySQL 5, PHP 5, and WordPress 4. This was the machine that Sally used through college and was a great upgrade over my previous server (dual-core Intel CPU, more memory, faster bus). Maintenance was a large reason that I moved to a hosted model; the last update for OS 10.6 was released in July 2011, making it a full six years out of date when I moved..
Since the release of JayZone 2.0 in December, I have added some articles, albums, and photos, but have not really changed the way the site worked. Around March of 2005 I changed the look of the news and changelog boxes, and themed the entire site in shiny black and orange to celebrate the release of Mac OS 10.4 Tiger, but otherwise had not added anything major until the release of version 2.1.
In July of 2005, I released JayZone 2.1, which included new database-driven News and Changelog pages. I created new graphics and CSS for the News and Changelog boxes (which were easier to maintain and faster to load due to smaller graphics), added a search, and added user comments. This was the largest change to JayZone since I originally released 2.0 in December. It made updating my front page much easier and allowed me to update more often. It also turned JayZone into a sort of weblog, which was a major turning point for the site.
September brought JayZone 2.2, which included dynamic Albums and Galleries. I did not have time to convert galleries to the new dynamic system, so they did not see improvement, but Albums no longer relied on the iPhoto templates I used to use. I also added a categories feature to organize news posts, a feedback form, and a bunch of bug fixes. I made major modifications to the underlying structures that generate dynamic content, moving much of my code into libraries for easier management. A small maintenance release, JayZone 2.2.1, was released 2 days after 2.2 and fixes some small bugs.
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