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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> cialug-bounces@cialug.org
[mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Jerry
Heiselman<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 25, 2008 9:35 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Central
Iowa Linux Users Group<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Cialug] Power
Down<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Jeff Chapin <<A
href="mailto:chapinjeff@gmail.com">chapinjeff@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">I'm
in the same boat -- In Cedar Falls/Waterloo, the prices I was quoted<BR>for
local rackspace for a 1U server with minimal bandwidth usage ranged<BR>from
$70 a month to $350 a month, which for my needs would be massive<BR>overkill
-- I want a simple server I administer and can install the<BR>applications I
want on, and not have to worry about losing access due to<BR>policy changes at
my ISP (or even moving and getting a different ISP)<BR>and with a static IP
(so I can stop using <A href="http://afraid.com"
target=_blank>afraid.com</A>).<BR>
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<DIV class=Wj3C7c><BR><BR><BR><BR>Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:<BR>> On Thursday
24 April 2008 16:18, David Champion wrote:<BR>>> I do run it on a couple
of PC's at home, and on my<BR>>> server - my ISP is paying for the power
on that. :)<BR>><BR>> You have a co-located server? That reminds me...
what do people<BR>> recommend for things like that? I have a stack of
servers at home, but<BR>> i've been thinking of consolidating all the
remote services (DNS, mail,<BR>> web) onto 1 box and then either
co-locating the physical box somewhere<BR>> or renting a virtual machine
and migrating the services to that. Any<BR>> suggestions?<BR>><BR>>
Probably a virtual machine would be cheaper for my needs since my
sites<BR>> get very little traffic. And i certainly don't need to CPU power
of a<BR>> dedicated machine; a year or two ago i migrated each of my
servers to<BR>> machines with VIA CPUs running between 500 and 800 MHz.
They are dog<BR>> slow for desktop stuff, but for simple services they are
*perfect*<BR>> because they are sufficiently fast and they don't need big
fans for<BR>> cooling. 500 MHz + passive heat sink + flash-based drive =
silent<BR>> server. I suppose they'd seem a bit chunky serving dynamic web
sites,<BR>> but most of what little content i have is (*very*)
static.<BR>><BR>> I've been toying with the idea of moving my remote
servers out of my<BR>> apartment for some time, but i have a roommate
moving out in a few<BR>> months and so i might end up moving myself to a
smaller apartment... if<BR>> i migrated my remote services to some facility
i'd not have the few<BR>> days of downtime i'd otherwise expect during the
moving period. And<BR>> wouldn't have to worry about finding a place to set
up the server rack.<BR>><BR>>
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Dan Ramaley
Dial Center 118, Drake University<BR>>
Network Programmer/Analyst 2407
Carpenter Ave<BR>> +1 515 271-4540
Des Moines IA 50311
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