Comments on: Are you being server-ed?

By: Kaneda

Kaneda — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:14:11 +0000

Desk Job:

The minute you upgrade to equipment that isn’t just tossed on a cheap Sam’s Club shelf and made from the crap you had lying around, everything will stop working.

My experience. Also why my server is a crappy $200 PowerSpec mid-tower sitting in a cluttered office. I think I can handle about 3 users at one time!. I understand if you want to cower in fear. My server is awesome.

By: kate1976

kate1976 — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:13:35 +0000

it’s like bad server porn…

By: Desk Job

Desk Job — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:37:57 +0000

I must confess. The basement is mine. The two faster/awesomer servers are mine. The kegerator is mine, although I plan to share (the contents anyway).
The servers will soon be moved away from the window. I had to do some quick work to keep the downtime to a minimum while we moved to a new house, so I didn’t have a lot of choices of where to place the servers.
I keep trying to find a real rack to force mokie to upgrade his “server”. Until then I’m stuck with a rack I bought from SAM’S CLUB for $50. If you see a “real” server rack anywhere drop ACW an e-mail and well come pick it up within the vicinity of Baltimore.
I’ll have you know that our servers stay up for a whole 10 minutes during a power outage.
The SUN servers are:
(2) Sun Sparc Station 10
(1) Sun Sparc Station 5
they run DNS and DHCP

By: Monkey

Monkey — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:25:37 +0000

Where are the bananas?

Dammit.

By: Mighty Dyckerson

Mighty Dyckerson — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:41:59 +0000

That’s an awful lot of equipment for one crappy blog.

By: Diamond Lil

Diamond Lil — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:49:19 +0000

I’m not nerdy enough to know what the hell is going on with your server, but I am OCD and I commend the cleanliness of that basement. VERY impressive.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:27:15 +0000

Rest assured, dear readers. Indulge in the liquid goodness from the kegerator and all the other problems (windows, cooling, dirty laundry) will magically disappear.

As for desktops, hell no. They’s custom-build, so long as no one pitches in a few grand for a nice rack-mount ditty.

(proud owner of the left-most system, representin’…)

By: Bliss

Bliss — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:30:36 +0000

Who the hell cares? You’ve got a kegerator. :)

By: Andrew Netherton

Andrew Netherton — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:30:20 +0000

You should put a liquid cooling system in the new server, but instead of water put sake in it instead. Then you’d have a kegerator AND warm sake on tap! Won’t do much for anyone’s admin skills, but it would make a server-infested cinder block basement that much more tolerable.

By: stephanie

stephanie — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:48:50 +0000

I mean that I think your server should be named Alex and/or I wish it already was named Alex.

Damn it my brain is so slow.

By: stephanie

stephanie — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:47:07 +0000

I wish your server should be named Alex.

By: johnny dollar

johnny dollar — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:58:47 +0000

does the server dispense soft server ice cream?

could i get a cone with the vanilla and chocolate swirled together?

By: Diesel

Diesel — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:43:39 +0000

My server is made by Fisher Price. I just upgraded from Playskool.

By: mokiejovis

mokiejovis — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:18:05 +0000

It’s actually more specifically MY server rather than HIS server. HE just happens to have some files on it.

And yes, it is an old scavenged desktop. It’s running a P3 800mhz with three 6-year-old SCSI RAID drives in RAID-5 sandwiched in vertically where two hard drives are supposed to go horizontally. The speed holes in the front are actually because I managed to cram an 80mm fan into the front bezel and it’s forcing air across the hard drives, two of which are actually touching. This results in a whopping 15gb of RAIDed space.

If it makes you feel any better, we’re upgrading, and Newegg Santa should be arriving today.

By: darth

darth — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:10:29 +0000

are those paris hilton’s servers sitting next to yours?

By: JJT

JJT — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:07:41 +0000

Is that an actual desktop acting as a server? Kudos to your colo for the kegerator, but bullocks to you for using a workstation as a server. As mokie said, POS Gateway. I used to call them Ghettoways. ;-)

I also like the additional cooling fans. Nice touch.

By: tfg

tfg — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:41:02 +0000

You drilled a glory hole in your server? That’s worse than dead people.

By: Kaneda

Kaneda — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:13:22 +0000

Also, are those SparcStations on the top shelf? Three in a stack? That’s just awesome.

By: Kaneda

Kaneda — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:11:29 +0000

I’ll have to post pictures of my server someday. It can never match up to yours, because I don’t have a cool rack or a kegerator.

By: Poppy

Poppy — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:03:14 +0000

Ohhhh, ACW. I have so many questions.

WHAT THE FUCK? Why are there servers next to a WINDOW?!

(Sorry to whoever arranged this setup, but that is a BAD BUSINESS PLAN.)

(Are you curious how I really feel about this?)

Also, what’s regulating the temperature and humidity in that basement?

Is this basement in MD? Or a dry climate?

Why do I care? Cuz it’s what I do.