I forgot to connect the power to the DVD-drive in the server, so later this week I’ll have to open it again.
Apart from that, I think the server is indeed a lot more responsive. Let me know what your experience is.
Update: well, I had to do it just a minute after posting, since the SATA drive stopped responding. Seems like the motherboard SATA works a bit different than the Promise SATA controller
Today I exchanged the server hardware with the hardware leftover from my desktop upgrade. So the CPU is now a dual 3GHz (AMD 64-bits) instead of a single 1GHz 32-bits processor. And the memory has been expanded from 512MB to 4GB. Response of the weblog and the gallery should be a lot faster.
On the downside, the 80GB IDE disk stopped working, so I need to check what I’m missing now. As far as I know it was the old disk holding the gallery images, but they were moved to the SATA disk some time ago.
To do: upgrade from Ubuntu 32-bits to 64-bits and reconfigure X to use the new videocard (the troublesome ATI, instead of the ancient NVidia V7700 GeForce2 card).