We manage a lot of different servers, mostly web application servers running PHP and MySQL. The physical layout of these systems, due the hardware involved,…
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Building, installing and maintaining servers and their components.
Datacenter Power. It seems you can never have enough. We have our colocation inside an Equinix IBX. It is an excellent facility. Unfortunately, about 2…
Leave a CommentIn the course of rebuilding a customer’s Panther Xserve G5 on a 2 drive software raid to Tiger on a 3 drive hardware RAID, we…
Leave a CommentA colo customer of ours wanted us to completely rebuild an Xserve G5 of theirs. It was running Panther server and started acting really squirrely.…
1 CommentWe run cacti to do graphing of a lot of our resources. Obviously, traffic on switches, routers and servers, but also we do application level…
2 CommentsHaving built a couple of other Debian servers using software RAID 1, but not recalling exactly how I got it to work, I decided to…
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