Reply to rant: [olug] server life span

[Brian Roberson]

While we are on the subject.......


    We ( OLUG ) are looking for member's help on building ( supply parts
that is ) our next OLUG server, to support our web, mailing list, user
services etc...
We have, for years, relied on a sole member ( myself ) to supply such
hardware, and services. While I do have some piece/parts and TIME to
dedicate to this
project, I see the need to ask for help from other OLUG constituents in a
way that would be beneficial to all of OLUG. What we are looking for is
to build a solid server, not necessarily bleeding edge, but resilient enough
to not have to baby-sit every other day :-) We do have a colo pinned down
for the project that is willing to allow us park the server at their place,
for a very reasonable price. If you have any parts you would like to donate
( from a motherboard to memory ) please contact me off the list and let me
know what you have to donate. Now, I did say donate, however since OLUG is
not a real non-profit organization ( YET! ) there would not be any TAX
write-offs.



Thanks to everyone in advance, and hope to see you all at the next meeting,
which is on 10/1 @ the AIM institute



--Brian





----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Wolf" <CJWolf at mpsomaha.org>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 3:39 PM
Subject: Reply to rant: [olug] server life span


> We just purchased a Compaq SAN device and 6 new 1U servers.  Ran us very
> close to the same price as buying 6 Fat servers.  We also looked at the
> XioTech SAN.  We liked their SAN device better but the ongoing costs for
> software were, um surprising?  Needless to say the Compaq solution will
> do fine for what we need unless we add Linux to the device then it gets
> interesting and expensive.  I won't bore anyone with more rambling...
>
> Craig Wolf
> Linux Web Server Support
> Backup Supervisor
> Desktop/Network Specialist
> Support Services Center
> Millard Public Schools
> 402-894-6283
>
>
> >>> schmeits at clarksoncollege.edu 9/26/2002 >>>
> Greetings:
> Gotta' bitch..  We bought a Proliant 3000 4 years. Since then we have
> added several disks and an additional cpu. Currently it have about 50G
> of storage space. Main function is a file server.
>
> this machine has served us well. But at the end of this year it comes
> off the hardware support contact and now must look for a new bigger
> faster server.
>
> I hate retiring servers.
>
> It seems silly to spend several thousand dollars and retire it 4 years
> later.  Is it me or what??  Why cant a person add another blade of
> some
> sort and keep the machine another 4 years of support. Is there a
> better
> way of upgrading servers than this???
>
>
> Might be time to look at a SAN.
>
> done with rant..
>
>
>
> Roger
>
>
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