[Cialug] Power Down

[Jerry Heiselman]

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On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm in the same boat -- In Cedar Falls/Waterloo, the prices I was quoted
> for local rackspace for a 1U server with minimal bandwidth usage ranged
> from $70 a month to $350 a month, which for my needs would be massive
> overkill -- I want a simple server I administer and can install the
> applications I want on, and not have to worry about losing access due to
> policy changes at my ISP (or even moving and getting a different ISP)
> and with a static IP (so I can stop using afraid.com).
>
>
>
>
> Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> > On Thursday 24 April 2008 16:18, David Champion wrote:
> >> I do run it on a couple of PC's at home, and on my
> >> server - my ISP is paying for the power on that. :)
> >
> > You have a co-located server? That reminds me... what do people
> > recommend for things like that? I have a stack of servers at home, but
> > i've been thinking of consolidating all the remote services (DNS, mail,
> > web) onto 1 box and then either co-locating the physical box somewhere
> > or renting a virtual machine and migrating the services to that. Any
> > suggestions?
> >
> > Probably a virtual machine would be cheaper for my needs since my sites
> > get very little traffic. And i certainly don't need to CPU power of a
> > dedicated machine; a year or two ago i migrated each of my servers to
> > machines with VIA CPUs running between 500 and 800 MHz. They are dog
> > slow for desktop stuff, but for simple services they are *perfect*
> > because they are sufficiently fast and they don't need big fans for
> > cooling. 500 MHz + passive heat sink + flash-based drive = silent
> > server. I suppose they'd seem a bit chunky serving dynamic web sites,
> > but most of what little content i have is (*very*) static.
> >
> > I've been toying with the idea of moving my remote servers out of my
> > apartment for some time, but i have a roommate moving out in a few
> > months and so i might end up moving myself to a smaller apartment... if
> > i migrated my remote services to some facility i'd not have the few
> > days of downtime i'd otherwise expect during the moving period. And
> > wouldn't have to worry about finding a place to set up the server rack.
> >
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