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I'll agree with that one Greg.
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<br />I'm in San Antonio, and that new server I mentioned has ELEVEN big fans in it. I wasn't silly enough to try to run it out of my house.
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<br />But a buddy who got another of those is trying that now. I hear his wife is getting more and more upset about the noise from the fans, not to mention the background noise from 25 hard drives, and the UPS fans. I suspect he's going to be looking for a datacenter soon....
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<br />Chuck
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From: Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet <cobaltfacts@virtbiz.com>
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To: blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it
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Sent: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 12:29:11 -0600
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Subject: [BlueOnyx:16837] Re: Soliciting Suggestions
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On 1/9/2015 8:40 AM, Danny O'Day wrote:
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> I'm going to definitely research that option, but will be doing it from
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> home for sentimental and personal reasons. I won't argue about them
being
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> top notch in their field.
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Thanks guys. I appreciate the kind words from everyone.
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One thing you'll find with that server, Danny, is that it is likely to
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be noisy and throw off a fair amount of BTU's. If you've got a nice
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place for it to live that won't bother you (or family members /
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roommates / etc) then that will be ideal. Of course, you may well
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have all that under control, but I thought I'd mention it so you can be
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somewhat forewarned!
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That's my helpful advice. Stop reading now if you are short on time.
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We had a customer with 3 servers in our facility who decided that to
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save some costs during difficult economic times, he would pull the
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servers to his house. So he got a small rack, a UPS and upgraded his
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broadband connection to a "commercial" account.
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What he soon found was that the servers consumed more electricity than
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he had considered and actually warmed up his home office to the point
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where he had to run his air conditioner more (this is Texas, it gets
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quite hot in the summer.) With that and the addition of the broadband
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upgrade, he now exceeded his costs of keeping the servers at the
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datacenter, and had foregone the backup power, redundant connections,
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and facility management. I'm told that would have been acceptable, as
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he had grown fond of being able to lay his hands on the equipment
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anytime he chose. However, this particular customer has a wife, and she
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objected to the constant noise that had been introduced into the house
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with the 2x 2U servers, a 1U server and a managed switch. All those
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little fans at high RPM's can add up. After 4 months, we heard back
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from Jim that he would like to see if his old spot was still available.
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