[Cialug] Power Down

[Theron Conrey]

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I'm getting to the point where I'm considering getting a second server up and running very soon.
If I can get enough interest it makes it easier to commit time resources.

-Theron





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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Heiselman
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 9:35 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Power Down

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On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com<mailto: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<http://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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