My name is Gianpaolo Del Matto. I am your host and proudly welcome you to phunsites.net. But … Who Is This Guy?™ anyway?
Well, I started with computers by the age of about 8 or 9. And after all, I still stay with these machines by today 
My worklife IT carreer began over 10 years ago as a customer care support guy with the ISP agri.ch (today owned by green.ch). From there I moved to the Hosting Companies Swiss-Web and later Genotec, where I developped an indepth expertise in building and maintaining scalable and fully-automated hosting environments until I cecently joined the network engineering and operations team at Swisscom.
During the years I have worked on very different projects and topics. I’ve built redundant dns clusters, multi-tier mail systems, shared hosting environments, xdsl and ras/vpn infrastructures, internet and datacenter backbones and many, many more things. I’m also very sure that I’ve replaced at least a zillion of failed hard drives …
I have developed an indepth expertise in internet technology in overall, covering all relevant technologies from Windows over Unix/Linux to Networking, with a main focus in Linux and FreeBSD as well as reliable system and network design as well as vivid programming knowledge. Since 2006 I’m regurlaly posting some of my experiences, ideas or conclusions on my PHAQ blog.
Of course there are other things besides my professional (and private) obsession to IT and computers (I’m also an avid fan of Apple, Classic SGI, Digital and Sun Workstations). I’m playing billiard regurlarly. During the warm summer time the mountain bike is also a best friend of mine, recently joined by inline skating.
Socialising with my best friends is also very important to me. So is also my passion for Scotland and their famous whiskies. I’m also strongly interested in science in general, which might also explain my special interest in science fiction, and Star Trek in particular.
So to speak, there’s also my latest activity in building a “real” Knight Rider K.I.T.T. replica car, which of course you’ll find more information about on this blog.
Movies are my second nature, so you may certainly be not be surprised finding me every now and then in a movie theatre. Obviously, not to few movies will eventually find their way into my DVD collection, leaving me with an ever growing storage cabinet requirement…
So, this it it for now.
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Now it’s to turn back to work, at least for me … I feel there’s some lurking around the corner
