Archive for May 3rd, 2008
The Server has Arrived
I ordered my first, honest to god, server earlier this week and took shipment of it yesterday. I finally came to the realization that if I wanted to make any reasonable amount of supplemental income, I needed to take my personal projects more seriously. Getting them hosted on an actual server and not some shared hosting web-farm, was the first step in doing that. It’s nothing that would even wet most geeks appetite as it’s extremely modest in it’s specs, but I plan on upgrading it as much as I can before shopping it over to WaveForm for hosting.
- Tyan Thunder K8S Pro Mainboard.
- Dual Opteron 2.0 GHZ Processors
- 4 GB (2 x 2) of Registered 333 MHZ DDR
- Dual Gigabit Ethernet and 1 10/100 Ethernet
- Single 120GB EIDE HDD
My plans for upgrading this before I send it off are as follows.
- Adding an additional 4GB (2 x 2) of DDR
- Installing 2 Western Digital Sata-150 80GB drives in Raid.
This should give me more than enough space to house the Databases and Source files on the raid drives and use the main drive partitioned for the OS and the other partition for a poor man’s backup solution. I’ll still be looking into ways to do an off site backup as well, but that may come later.
Update : I probably should have mentioned that I bought this via Geeks.com. First time I’ve ordered anything from them. The top plate was a little bent, but everything was intact and it runs like a well oiled machine. It was also insanely cheap. Not too shabby.
