[Cialug] Power Down

[David Champion]

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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>   
Yes, I have a personal server co-located at Internetsolver.com. I host a 
number of sites for friends and a couple of clubs / organizations, so it 
made sense for me.

Depending on what you're doing, a virtual server might be a better 
choice. Maybe Theron still has some space left on his Xen server...

-dc