[Cialug] Power Down

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

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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