[BlueOnyx:16839] Re: Soliciting Suggestions

[Danny O'Day]

LOL - love the story..

I'm in the Central Valley of California and we are no strangers to heat
either.

I'm sure this will be an improvement over the heat and noise generated by
the 2 Rackables (1U dual Opterons) and Penguin Relion 130 (Dual Xeon).  I
have a Couple of Dell 1950's in the rack as well, but the fan speeds are
pretty quiet most of the time.  I have an old PBX Rack which houses most
of the hardware.

Now if you have the time..

Our family domains (missing.com and lois.org) were launched on the first
residential install of a T1 line in the US (1993).  Still have the
hardware for that too.  The line was put in by Internex (I have the wood
signs taken down when they were bought out and replaced and ultimately
became XO.)  This installation was at my sisters home in Santa Clara, CA. 
Having a fully unmetered T1 in the 90's with a class C was a wonderful
thing.  The house was dubbed Casa de Ethernet and we had hardware and
cabling everywhere.  Geek heaven.

Long story short, my sister passed away almost two years ago from cancer. 
One of the things we discussed as she was going through treatment was her
desire to keep a few of her projects and domains going for as long as
possible and she wanted them to never be colocated and available to be
dealt with hands on by the family.  After her passing, a large chunk of
both my and her hardware came back to my home where the cycle continues.

I'm fortunate to have a wife and two children who not only put up with me
on many different levels, they also tolerated the huge project of
reinforcing the office floor, installing new electrical, mini-split, noise
etc that we "inherited" and the responsibilities of keeping some of this
stuff going as long as we can.

If anyone has any Solbourne hardware, I need it to fix lois.org.  Most of
the stuff I have been able to track down is in worse shape than what I
already have.

Thanks for your time and will be in touch as the project advances..

Danny

>
> 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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