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The server that hosts lowtek.ca sits in a dusty corner of my furnace room.\u00a0 There are lots of good reasons to not host your own web presence, but if you are stubborn like I am you might find this interesting.<\/p>\nThe server that hosts lowtek.ca sits in a dusty corner of my furnace room.\u00a0 There are lots of good reasons to not host your own web presence, but if you are stubborn like I am you might find this interesting.<\/p>\n
The current hardware is an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ that I bought back in 2001 – I remember it cost me a bit more than $1700 at the time. This used to be my desktop until I upgraded to a much quieter (and slightly faster) refurbished machine a couple of years ago.\u00a0 For the most part I’ve been avoiding buying new hardware to avoid the steep price depreciation.<\/p>\n
Last week the server machine shut itself off, two days in a row.\u00a0 There wasn’t much data in the logs, but poking around I’m fairly convinced that the CPU was overheating.\u00a0 The sensor data claims a 23C swing in reported temperatures (55C-78C).\u00a0 Either way, the machine is now unreliable in my mind and I need the server to be reliable.<\/p>\n
While I was tempted to go the refurbished route, as I can pick up a reasonably capable system for about $100 – I really wanted to avoid getting in the same mess in a few years.\u00a0 So after some amount of searching, I settled on the following components:<\/p>\n
Total works out to under $200.\u00a0 I can reuse a case (or steal one from a friend) and the drives I have already.\u00a0 I do plan to measure the power consumption of my new system vs. the existing one, I’m hopeful I will get results similar to this claim of 41watts<\/a>.<\/p>\n My thinking here is that by buying new, I’m going to have a more reliable system for longer.\u00a0 The energy savings are a sensible investment over a few years, thus both the Atom CPU<\/a> and 80Plus<\/a> power supply make sense.\u00a0 Less heat (again the Atom) should mean easier cooling, and again hopefully longer life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The server that hosts lowtek.ca sits in a dusty corner of my furnace room.\u00a0 There are lots of good reasons to not host your own web presence, but if you are stubborn like I am you might find this interesting. The current hardware is an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ that I bought back in 2001 … Continue reading “Time to upgrade the server”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/2224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}