It's been a long time since I've posted, but I have a new toy coming! Over the course of the past couple of weeks, lonestar (my mail and DNS server running on a 486) has been having it's share of problems. Crashing every few days and being just generally not happy. I have also been having issues with the other two servers that reside at my house. One only has a 2 Gb drive in it and that decided to fill up a week ago. The other server is only a PII 350 attempting to run J-Boss and PostgreSQL server serving out a custom e-commerce website for Tobacco Palace Inc..
I had spent a bit of my time over the past couple of weeks attempting to spec out a server and decide if I wanted to buy one or build one. With the price advantage not being all that great, I decided to just purchase one. By far, Dell had the best deals over Gateway and IBM. Gateway uses only the Celeron processors in their servers that I could find/afford, and the IBM's were double the price of the Dell.
I decided to purchase a Dell PowerEdge 1600SC with a Xeon 2.8GHz processor, 512MB PC 2100 ram, a 36GB SCSI hard drive and other neat toys for about $700. It should ship on Thursday, which means I should have it by Monday or Tuesday. Then it's fun time installing Gentoo on this box.
This will become my new server, consolidating the 3 servers I have strewn around the county into one. I will finally have a server worthy of the name, and only have to worry about paying the bills for the house, and not the computer sitting at my parents still.
Posted by doug at September 7, 2004 05:42 PM | TrackBack