Pollux is the latest addition to my ever-shrinking stable of machines, and is the first of a two stage process to replace my VM server with a trio of small, lightweight machines to handle my production server duties.
Prior to this month, I had Altair, Polaris, and Vega. Altair was my primary file server with massive internal storage, Polaris was dedicated to “services”, and Vega just kinda sat where ever I could find a hole with power and ethernet.
Read more…
Categories: Work, geek, geek news, home network, sysadmin, toys Tags: apache, bind, geek, geek news, Home Network, news, pollux, Servers, ubuntu
So this summer when energy started to go through the roof I decided it was time to “green up” a little more and get more energy efficient about things, not to mention lower my electric bill as much as possible. So shortly after classes started this semester I picked up a Kill-A-Watt and did some measurements.
Read more…
Categories: geek, geek news, home network, sysadmin, toys Tags: Fun, geek, Home Network, LinkedIn, Servers, sysadmin, Time Consuming