I’ve finished this server’s upgrade, I can’t think of anything I left out or any improvements to the OS I could make. I put the OS back on the high-speed 10kRPM drive, so performance is as good as it gets on this CPU. If anyone finds even the most minor problem with streaming videos or the Apache server configuration, please leave me a comment.
Now that the major work is done, I can get on with fixing up the site’s appearance. I never managed to get the new Movable Type installation to look much better than the default templates. There’s a lot of work remaining on the look and feel of the site, but that should be easy in comparison to the server upgrade.