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countgeiger is secure and happy in his well-paying job at an adult-friendly hosting company in the South Bay, we can once more contemplate hosting lorien at a real colocation facility.
This is Good. It means my bandwidth will be many Gigabites per second of Pure, Shiny Awesome.
We've even obtained a 1U Dell server. The last time I tried to build this beastie (codename: boondock, until it goes online, and is renamed lorien), it had paired 40GB drives, which I mirrored handily. This means that you only get 40GB of space, but if one of those hard drives goes tits-up, the other will Do the Right Thing--or, as I just put it:
"My jury is out on whether Jesus saves? But I know mirroring does."
We have now obtained a pair of summat larger drives, which will be jiggled similarly.
400GB each.
I loves my husband, yes I do...
As a coda, by the way, this means that at some point in the future there will be two downtimes: one, with little fuss, will be to transfer data from old-lorien to boondock and reincarnate it as lorien. The second will be summat longer and need more fussing, as it will involve changing IP addresses as we put lorien in the colo again; I'll warn y'all.
-- Lorrie
countgeiger is secure and happy in his well-paying job at an adult-friendly hosting company in the South Bay, we can once more contemplate hosting lorien at a real colocation facility. This is Good. It means my bandwidth will be many Gigabites per second of Pure, Shiny Awesome.
We've even obtained a 1U Dell server. The last time I tried to build this beastie (codename: boondock, until it goes online, and is renamed lorien), it had paired 40GB drives, which I mirrored handily. This means that you only get 40GB of space, but if one of those hard drives goes tits-up, the other will Do the Right Thing--or, as I just put it:
"My jury is out on whether Jesus saves? But I know mirroring does."
We have now obtained a pair of summat larger drives, which will be jiggled similarly.
400GB each.
I loves my husband, yes I do...
As a coda, by the way, this means that at some point in the future there will be two downtimes: one, with little fuss, will be to transfer data from old-lorien to boondock and reincarnate it as lorien. The second will be summat longer and need more fussing, as it will involve changing IP addresses as we put lorien in the colo again; I'll warn y'all.
-- Lorrie
