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December 07, 2005
Woo Hoo, Got a new 1U Web Server
While considering options, I decided to co-locate a web server for my family website.
I've been meaning to do this so I could house more family oriented sub sites.
Seems I have this huge extended family I never knew as a child.
They have yearly gatherings in the summer and winter.
I thought it would be great to have our gallery and possibly an event bulletin board online.
Also, this lets me do more advanced support for seismic and the PM community should the need arise.
My friend Larry at http://www.hostasite.com has been gracious enough to sport some rack space, power and bandwidth for the cause. Thanks Larry!
At first I considered a simple 2U dual 1GHZ PIII system. The price was right about $200.
But after some consideration I thought it best to invest in something more modern that I could grow with.
Lo and behold I see an auction for a
1U Rack mount SuperMicro 2 XEON CPUS (2.0 GHZ) 512MB Ram
The price was only $450 for this. Sheesh the CPU's and ram alone would cost close to that.
So I talked the guy into dumping the 40GB hd (can ya believe it) and adding another 512MB ram instead.
So $495 delivered to my door and I have this new kickass cotrone.com server. Not too shabby!
So in the next few weeks (after I order two 300GB hard drives) Cotrone.Com will be moving to Garden City NY. w00t!
Posted by Me on December 7, 2005 05:22 AM