Wednesday, November 15, 2006
First Item - Machines & Hardware
As mentioned previously, I built a machine that I am now using as a server.
I picked up an old DELL Precision 220. At the time it had 256 mb ram, a 20 gb SCSI HDD, and a single P3-733 processor. It isn't a particularly hefty machine, but it was adequate for storing most of my work items.
I took and spent some time on E-Bay (we love E-Bay) and found a second proc with the same model number and step. I also picked up the voltage regulator required to convert one of these machines into a dual proc. Then I picked up another 256 mb RDRAM for it.
On DigitalDeals.net I found a couple of 100 gb HDD, IDE not SCSI, but my MoBo has both buses. So I got them for $30 each.
So, all in total, maybe $400 for a fairly decent system.
Now, you could try to run a Windows Server on this hardware, but I would simply say, "Good Luck"...
I worked for Microsoft for 6 years, and I wouldn't try it. Besides, if Microsoft cannot trust their data to Windows Server, why should I?
I also picked up a good hardware firewall, a Linksys WRVS4400N.
I got it all put together, and installed Fedora Core 5. This was the easy part...yah, the hard part is still to come.
1 - Setting up the Web Server
2 - Setting up the Email Server
3 - All the other things I forgot
I picked up an old DELL Precision 220. At the time it had 256 mb ram, a 20 gb SCSI HDD, and a single P3-733 processor. It isn't a particularly hefty machine, but it was adequate for storing most of my work items.
I took and spent some time on E-Bay (we love E-Bay) and found a second proc with the same model number and step. I also picked up the voltage regulator required to convert one of these machines into a dual proc. Then I picked up another 256 mb RDRAM for it.
On DigitalDeals.net I found a couple of 100 gb HDD, IDE not SCSI, but my MoBo has both buses. So I got them for $30 each.
So, all in total, maybe $400 for a fairly decent system.
Now, you could try to run a Windows Server on this hardware, but I would simply say, "Good Luck"...
I worked for Microsoft for 6 years, and I wouldn't try it. Besides, if Microsoft cannot trust their data to Windows Server, why should I?
I also picked up a good hardware firewall, a Linksys WRVS4400N.
I got it all put together, and installed Fedora Core 5. This was the easy part...yah, the hard part is still to come.
1 - Setting up the Web Server
2 - Setting up the Email Server
3 - All the other things I forgot
