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On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:05:27 +0000 Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: > > > > Sounds good. Out of interest, has the old server been running the LUG > > mailing list and web site since the beginning? > > No, the site use to be on Termisoc servers. Alex can tell more no doubt. The mailing list is still run separately, courtesy of a-squared.co.uk, managed by Alex. > Neil's virtual machine use to lose it's cron daemon occasionally, but I > always assumed that was either him or his code ;) I never did track that down but I think it was a result of the I/O blocks - cron always seemed to die when that VM got overloaded with mysqld processes which in turn were waiting for I/O. > It was a second-hand Intel server one of the members sold to Neil. Ran > two virtual server, including three websites about the popularity of the > DCGLUG site, handled my family's email (IMAP), and a scattering of low > traffic websites for Neil and myself including several WordPress > instances, and a PHP based forum at one point. > > Now what to do with the old server, once it is fully decommissioned? The server itself isn't powerful enough to do much for me any more and it's far too noisy (and power hungry) to be put outside a server room - where it will be completely outclassed by any other machine in the rack. I've kept lots of old machines in the past but each time I've ended up with something that I cannot really use properly - and then finally some small bit of hardware fails, it's not available any longer from new and the rest of the box is too old to be mixed with new hardware. Case in point is my Pentium 1 90MHz box that I bought new with Windows 3.1 on it and which I "upgraded" to Win95 First ed before it finally received Debian Sarge. It made it to Etch before the fan failed and I tried a couple of AT fans (not ATX) before they failed too (all the AT fans are basically the same age as the one that failed). A variety of machines will not be going with me when I move house next time. The old LUG server is one and that Pentium1 is another, there's probably two or three others that will go too. (Even a CRT monitor and an ancient laptop). It's time to downsize my electronics. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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