31 May
2013
31 May
'13
7:50 a.m.
At 7:32 AM -0400 5/31/13, David Riley wrote:
On May 31, 2013, at 1:19 AM, "Zane H. Healy"
<healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
I'm typing this on a fairly modern Dual 4-Core Xeon, but this is my
desktop, I don't feel a need for more CPU power than a P3 for a
server. OTOH, I need as much as possible on the desktop, as I spend
most of the time in Photoshop. Though realistically at the moment I
need more I/O power.
My primary OpenVMS server, the one I ran 24x7, and served up data on
the Internet for years moved from an Alphastation 200 4/233 -> DEC
3000/300LX -> 433au -> Compaq XP1000/667. It also started with a
single internal SCSI HD, made it up to two BA350's that were mostly
full, and now has dual 3-drive SCA JBOD boxes. It also has 4mm DAT
and DLT tape drives (in the past it's had 8mm and DLT tape libraries).
The XP1000 has plenty of CPU power, RAM, and disk space for RDB and
WASD, but the configuration sucks power like crazy. Still I
seriously miss having a VMS server online, and am considering moving
it back to an AlphaStation 4/233.
Zane
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On May 30, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Ethan Dicks
<ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
Sadly this pretty much parallels where my mind has been going.
For the past several years the only server I've had running is a 12
year old Pentium 3. The VMS servers and Sun boxes have been
powered down. In fact for several years I've threatened to replace
the P3 with an Atom-based server.
Suddenly though I find myself thinking of adding 3+ Linux boxes
for a project.
I run a reasonably recent 8-core Xeon as my primary server. I don't get
that much traffic, it's just more convenient to have a machine that I can
run heavy compute loads on from remote locations. I have a dual P3 as a
secondary DNS server.
I'm set to acquire a few more classic systems in the near term, though.
If any of them can be run 24/7 without breaking the bank, I'll probably
change my primary public-facing services to them, partly for the "fun"
factor (none of the sites I host get enough traffic to justify anything
near an 8-core Xeon) and also because something like OpenVMS on an Alpha
is a much less likely target for random attacks by script kiddies.