colo.the-bob.org lives

This is probably the most exciting event in the 9yr history of The-BOB – the launch of our first actual colocated server that we own and can physically access if we need to.

I took the server over to the US Signal datacenter here in Grand Rapids and went to put it in the rack only to discover that the rail kit that I had for it is for a standard rack, not the shorter telco racks in the datacenter there!

The staff was kind enough to let me shelve it on top of another server for the time until I can get a rail kit that fits.

Today I looked up the parts for the server (an old HP DL140 G1) at HP and discovered that the Telco rails that we need are $129!! Rediculous! Part number 353359-001. So, I don’t know how we’re going to pay for that, any money we take in we spend on hosting. So, I guess I’m accepting paypal donations to chouse@gmail.com if you want to contribute a few bucks. I don’t know how long I have until to get new rails in but they said they didn’t have any scheduled to rack above my server so we’re safe for now.

Anyway, the server itself is 1U in size, has a xeon hyper-threaded 3ghz processor and 4GB of memory. An 80GB IDE drive hosts the OS and a 160GB IDE drive hosts /home. More info at http://colo.the-bob.org/phpsysinfo

I’ll continue my year-long process of moving users off the original the-bob.org server, as well as moving off the since-april new.the-bob.org server. So, stay tuned.

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