The server Io is a joint venture of us,
Julian Mehnle and
Michael Buschbeck,
and harbors our personal projects and web sites. The name
Io
comes from one of the planet
Jupiter's
four largest (Galilean)
moons
(the other three being Europa, Ganymede, and
Callisto). For a lot of wonderful images of the moon Io,
which is the most active volcanic body in our solar system, take a
look here!
Io (io.link-m.de) is physically located in rackspace generously provided by local Munich ISP Linksystem München. Io is connected to the Internet via IPv4 (82.135.8.34) and IPv6 (2001:a60:901e::22).
Io is a virtual dual-core Xeon 2.83GHz machine with 2GB of dedicated RAM running a Linux 2.6 kernel in an always up-to-date and secured Debian "Testing" environment. nathan.nehmer.net and siriux.net live next door, on the same physical machine.
Io has its own certification authority that provides X.509
certificates for its own secure Internet services as well as for
selected other services. You can install the
CA's signing certificate
on your computer to assert that you trust all of these
certificates.