[olug] Server Motherboard Recomendations.

[Dan Clough]

The hair was well-maintained but it was long and bushy.  I don't know  
what they really expected from a 19 year old college kid but oh well.  
Hah, and yes, clean undies were worn.  College isn't THAT expensive...  
Yet.

A T1 was just fine for serving a personal website.  In fact, in some  
cases my cable connection was the limiting factor (uploading).  What  
helped the most was having truly static IP addressing so I didn't have  
to worry about my IP changing on me after a little downtime, and  
having an actual rack to put my servers in.  And as an aside, helping  
out Jay around his shop has given me real-world experience to back up  
an otherwise worthless college degree.

If the community colo idea takes off then both of the aforementioned  
concerns would be eliminated for me.  I'd love to donate time, money  
and energy whereever I can to make it work.

Dan

On Mar 24, 2009, at 8:00 AM, "Aric" <aric at omahax.com> wrote:

> Dan Clough said:
> "It took me a haircut, a polo, a pair of Dockers and a briefcase to  
> even get
> a tour"
> ..did you have to brush your teeth and change your underwear too?
>
> I hear you though.  I got myself 12 pairs of docker mobility pants  
> for $15
> each and some Jerry Garcia ties off ebay.  I sort of think of it as  
> the BDU
> of the IT cube jockey.  I feel really uncomfortable if doing onsite  
> server
> maintenance after business hours in a T-shirt and jeans thinking it  
> will be
> quick and I am still their optimizing something when the suits get  
> there in
> the morning.  As far as haircuts I just comb my head with the #2 every
> Sunday.  I guess lately I am just too cheap and practical to drive  
> to and
> sit in a barbershop every few weeks.
>
> What did Jay have?  The archive I read said he had a Sprint T1.   
> What are
> you going to do with a T1?  Run a dial up BBS?  Back then I was using
> multiple tconl and cox cable modems and a emergency fallback to  
> Verizon EVDO
> with pfSense's load balancer.  I made myself a nice ghetto pipe.  I  
> thought
> about taking some Pringles cans and some aiming servos and hooking  
> them to
> wifi wan ports of a pfSense box and load balancing them... Just to  
> see how
> dirty I could get.
>
> Jay seems like a cool guy, too bad I only discovered RTU during their
> closing sale.  I got a nice 23" fully enclosed cabinet $70.
>
> @Phil Brutsche
> Thanks for the info on the sata flash drives, sorry I missed TFM by 2
> clicks.
>
> Jesse Regier said
> "Remote Management Cards:
>
> This would be great and I do use these in HP servers but I don't  
> think it
> will be in the budget for this project. I'll have to live with ssh  
> over a
> congested wireless ISP. (yippee)"
>
> Yeah those cards are like minicomputers in a PCI slot and they are  
> very
> expensive that isn't what we were suggesting sorry for the confusion  
> I was
> simply stating my reference point of previous experience.
>
> From Supermicro's site here
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/sim.cfm
>
> "Supermicro Intelligent Management (SIM) module monitors onboard
> instrumentation such as temperature sensors, power status, voltages  
> and fan
> speed, and provides remote power control capabilities to reboot and/ 
> or reset
> the server. It also includes remote access to the BIOS configuration  
> and
> operating system console information via SOL (Serial over LAN) or  
> embedded
> KVM capabilities. Because the controller is a separate processor, the
> monitoring and control functions work regardless of CPU operation or  
> system
> power-on status."
>
> The user manual is here
> http://www.supermicro.com/manuals/other/AOC-SIMSOLC-HTC.pdf
>
> The card for the X7SBE Phil mentioned is for sale at provantage.com  
> for
> $45.48
> http://www.provantage.com/supermicro-aoc-simlc-htc~7SUPM1C0.htm
>
> I think it is probably worth the money in your situation.
> ...........
> Will Langford said:
>
> "Dell perc4/dc's are relatively cheap (being a few generations old),  
> get
> around 20mb/sec write speed sustained or so, 128mb bbu."
>
> 20mb/sec wtf. and I thought my adaptec 2100s was POS at 60 MB/s.  
> What are
> you doing, retro fitting some quantum fireballs? Random writes? IDK,  
> I hope
> you left out a 0.
>
> @irish
> The audio racks I have seen have been 2 post.  You probably want a 4  
> post
> for rails.
>
> @Jeff Hinrichs
> Good point.  I guess when I think of radio stations I think of  
> streaming
> media..
> You mentioned freeNAS I've used that.  I like openfiler
> http://www.openfiler.com/ check it out if you haven't.  I've been  
> playing
> with openfiler on xen to make a wannabe equallogic san.
>
> ..filter. OK big girl panty hose.
>
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