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Whew! New hardware finalized! 2002-10-24 23:03:55
by lmbedore
Okay! Finally! The new server hardware is all finalized. All the servers are physically built. This weekend we'll be building the OS/Server software. Thanks go to Sirius for the donation of some replacement HD's for apathy as well. Apathy will be going to hardware RAID right after we put these new servers in place.

Here's a quick rundown of what these upgrades entail, hardware-wise. This should make it clear why these upgrades have taken so long! :)

Vector (File, Tape Backup server):
  • PII 266 ECC
  • 384mb ECC SDRAM
  • 2-40GB Drives, RAID1 (OS)
  • 4-120GB Drives, RAID5 (File storage)
Chester (Mail, SQL Server):
  • AMD Athlon XP 1600+
  • 512mb PC133 SDRAM
  • 2-40GB Drives, RAID1 (OS)
Angstful (Main Web Server):
  • PIII Coppermine 733mhz
  • 512mb ECC SDRAM
  • 2-40GB Drives, RAID1 (OS)
Apathy (FTP, secondary Web, possibly IRC server):
  • Dual PII Xeon 450/1MB Cache
  • 512mb ECC SDRAM
  • 2-9GB 10k LVD-SCSI Drives, RAID1 (OS)
MHB (Firewall):
  • Sparc 5/170
  • 128mb RAM
  • Quad 10/100 NIC card
NS1, NS2 (DNS Servers):
  • Sparc 4/110's
  • 64mb RAM

If I can get my digital camera working again in Linux (just switched to a new KT400 motherboard that "isn't supported" in linux yet), I'll take some pictures of the new gear.



Re: Whew! New hardware finalized! 2002-10-25 01:46:11
by Anonymous
Awesome.
Re: Whew! New hardware finalized! 2002-10-25 14:27:29
by Douglas
Excellent.
Re: Whew! New hardware finalized! 2002-10-26 09:28:05
by Dawgclan
Laird I like your post table colors... mind if I use them?
~Rothgar
Re: Whew! New hardware finalized! 2002-10-31 00:27:09
by Anonymous
Any estimated time when Vectorstar users will be able to post to the message board? If users will eventually will be able to post?

thinking about riding a train?

Re: Whew! New hardware finalized! 2002-11-01 23:46:35
by ykk
Wow! Great!!
Re: Whew! New hardware finalized! 2002-11-02 01:03:34
by stale
And they wonder why all users aren't allowed to post on the msgboard as it is...