Server Information

Below you'll find information such as stats and photos of my webservers.

Anyone who knows me knows I like to eat lots and lots of beef. Be it steaks, stews, chilli, or carpaccio. MMMMM! All of my servers (except those with legacy names that would be too much of a hassle to change) have a beef-related naming convention. Most admins choose greek gods, famous topological landmarks, or other extremely nerdy themes. These are too hard to spell and pretentious for me. I'll stick to a good old USDA Prime naming convention.

This is my workstation. The strobe light on top of the cabinet is activated when big brother detects a network error.

Here is a better view of the cabinet. It's a bright blue 42U full depth with a couple of shelves, a locking rear and front doors, and removable paneling.

From top to bottom:

• A linksys 24 port switch.
• Half depth Rackable debug machine. I use this to perform tests on various things. It's a PIIIM 1.0GHZ with a half gig of ram and no hard disks.
• Matching blue shelf (-:
• Two Cybex Autoview Commanders. These are sweet KVMs. The have an onscreen display and are activated by double tapping the control key. My life officially began when I discovered these.
• APC Masterswitch. This is a robust network power cycling device. I used to have a WTI device but I liked this one better so I swapped 'em out.
• Primal: VA Linux 2U RM Machine. I designed this to be my primary machine, but in all honesty... I've never used it. I think it has Slackware installed.
• Shelf #2: Great place to set your beer.

From top to bottom and left to right:

• Porterhouse: A slow dual processor 2U machine with SCSI RAID. Currently this is being used to do BSD kernel programming and when it is stable I will use it as a toy BSD machine.
• Nocase: Original named because it was a mess of parts sitting on a towel in my old network. This is my network router, NS2, POP3, and webserver. Nocase recently had a distro change, he is now running Slack. He has a case now (-:
• Tallbox: Originall tall yet ironically now 1U. This is my NS1 and SMTP server. It performs various other local tasks as well. This runs an old mega-hacked redhat distro that I dubbed "JackHat"
• Ribeye: So-named because it's got all the fat and none of the flavor. This is a 4U quad-xeon machine with a 3disk SCSI RAID array. It runs... and oh how ashamed I am... Windows 2003 Server. This is a 4U machine that I rarely use.
• Beef: My backup machine. This is an IBM Netfinity 5100. I think it has around a terrabyte of IDE disk-space installed. The root drive the OS (Slackware) is installed on is a 6 disk SCSI RAID array. I also use this as a workstation because the videocard is pretty nice for a server.
• Next to Beef is an APC UPS-1400RM. I just replaced the battery (-:

Tija's Workstation. I acquired this F5 loadbalancer from a lot purchase. A little hacking away with a screwdriver and some old junk and it's now Tija's primary workstation. She's so k-rad and she doesn't even know it.

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