Broken Server
Well my old P2-200 running my server finally started acting up. Just to give you some background I’d been running this server on a P2-200 running Redhat Linux 7.2 (I hadn’t upgraded yet) for the past year. The server was also running as my mp3 file server for my audiotron. Yesterday I was making a post when the Berkley DB under movable type fell over. I was unable to recover Berkley, but I’m not a DBA. It appears I’m not the only one with this problem. As a result I plan on migrating to MySQL database in the coming days.
Luckily I had been in the process of moving my server to a bigger machine so I had a backup, this just put urgency on the migration. I got most of my stuff moved, although it appears my pictures are broken due to a bad url, I’ll fix that when I get home tonight.
Just for consistence sake I’ll update the hardware/software list for this site. I’m now running on a P3-1 GHz with 512 meg ram and an 80 gig 7200rpm drive. I am running Redhat 9.0, with Apache 2 and PHP processing certain sections of my site. I also have tomcat running cocoon which is not publicly accessible but might be in the coming months.
Lesson learned: Things break.
August 24th, 2003 at 2:05 pm
I’ve heard a lot about performing server miracles on old hardware but there’s one thing I don’t understand. Even a P2 450Mhz routinely comes with only a 4.3Gb/5400rpm hard disk, which is hardly space enough for creating a file server or storing datanbase info/music collections. Therefore aren’t we constrained by the HD size the motherboard will accomodate unless we run only servers which do not involve significant storage?
I’ve even heard of some organisations running servers on old AT-486 machines but surely this would involve next to zero storage? The HD of such a machine would surely be barely large enough to hold the Linux system+httpd?
August 24th, 2003 at 2:07 pm
I overlooked the fact that my e-mail address is being posted. Could you do me a favour and remove it? Thanks.