Dawn of the Geeks

It’s a new tax year and you know what that means: tax deductible business expenses. Currently many web-sites I operate are running a Pentium III 933Mhz web server with a Pentium III 533Mhz database server. Together they make one moderately useful system. This week I will finally be putting together a Dual Core 1.6Ghz Pentium system which should be able to function as a Web and Database server. The CPU is upgradable as it’s an LGA 775 socket. The 933 Mhz system will probably be turned into a file server only. It already has all the SVN repositories for all the web-sites and other things. The 533 Mhz system will be turned off and put somewhere.

I have to pick up a new hard drive as well. The ones I’ve been using are taking a beating and one of them has failed a couple times. Because it’s a Seagate I was able to format the drive and get it working again but I think it’s time to start replacing drives with SATA drives. So, as they fail I’ll be swapping them out. Everything is backed up so data isn’t lost when a drive fails. It’s just an annoyance to have to shut down the web-server, format the drive and then copy all the files back.

Once the new server is up and running it’ll be time to start focusing on Bunnies again. The current server just simply can’t handle the site.