[BlueOnyx:16837] Re: Soliciting Suggestions

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

On 1/9/2015 8:40 AM, Danny O'Day wrote:
> I'm going to definitely research that option, but will be doing it from
> home for sentimental and personal reasons.  I won't argue about them being
> top notch in their field.

Thanks guys.  I appreciate the kind words from everyone.

One thing you'll find with that server, Danny, is that it is likely to 
be noisy and throw off a fair amount of BTU's.  If you've got a nice 
place for it to live that won't bother you (or family members / 
roommates / etc) then that will be ideal.    Of course, you may well 
have all that under control, but I thought I'd mention it so you can be 
somewhat forewarned!

That's my helpful advice.  Stop reading now if you are short on time.

<war_story>
We had a customer with 3 servers in our facility who decided that to 
save some costs during difficult economic times, he would pull the 
servers to his house.  So he got a small rack, a UPS and upgraded his 
broadband connection to a "commercial" account.

What he soon found was that the servers consumed more electricity than 
he had considered and actually warmed up his home office to the point 
where he had to run his air conditioner more (this is Texas, it gets 
quite hot in the summer.)  With that and the addition of the broadband 
upgrade, he now exceeded his costs of keeping the servers at the 
datacenter, and had foregone the backup power, redundant connections, 
and facility management.   I'm told that would have been acceptable, as 
he had grown fond of being able to lay his hands on the equipment 
anytime he chose.  However, this particular customer has a wife, and she 
objected to the constant noise that had been introduced into the house 
with the 2x 2U servers, a 1U server and a managed switch.  All those 
little fans at high RPM's can add up.   After 4 months, we heard back 
from Jim that he would like to see if his old spot was still available.
</war_story>

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Chris Gebhardt
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