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Re: w00t! Fund Drive for LUGNET Servers
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lugnet.admin.finance
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Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:49:36 GMT
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Money has been sent! Best of luck in aquiring the new hardware! I am sure
that you will not have any problems, as LUGNET is well worth the money.
Atleast it is to me, hopefully everyone else who is able to will step up and
help out.
I am excited by the prospect of what will be coming with the changes, and
believe that new hardware and the better control that comes with co-locating
your own server will only help in the implementation of said changes. Keep
up the good work!
Troy
"Todd Lehman" <todd@lugnet.com> wrote in message
news:HtKMwJ.1vKD@lugnet.com...
> We appreciated your patience during the downtime today
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> Thank you for bearing an unusually long downtime today. We certainly • weren't
> expecting a 9-hour outage simply for the replacement of a disk.
>
> You may have noticed on the LUGNET homepage during the downtime that we • are
> finalizing plans for purchasing a brand new server box for LUGNET this • week.
> (We are still running on almost 20th Century hardware.)
>
> As of 5:00pm EST today, LUGNET had exactly $728.69 USD in its coffers (not
> counting the quarterly bandwidth bill which is due shortly and has already
> been withdrawn), which gets us about half way to a decent modern server.
> Thanks to kind donations in the past few hours, we've got a little more
> breathing room now than earlier today, but we think there is a lot more
> potential out there. (Thankfully, Pair Networks paid for the new drive • that
> got installed today, since it's part of their package.)
>
>
> We need a completely new server
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>
> ~| <https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=paypal%40lugnet.com
> <https://www.paypal.com/images/x-click-butcc-donate.gif>>¬
> [Please click here if you have $5 or $10¬
> burning a hole in your PayPal account.]
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>
> Soon we begin the transition
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>
> As mentioned in October, Matthew Miller and I are going to be • transitioning
> LUGNET away from the FreeBSD setup at Pair Networks and over to an • all-Linux
> system where we can administer fine-grained accounts on the server • ourselves
> and generally have much greater control over the server box. Matthew is a
> fellow LUGNET-er, NELUG-er, friend, co-worker at Boston University (day
> job!), and the creator and full-time project leader of the very successful
> <http://linux.bu.edu/ BU Linux> distribution. Matthew has offered to
> administer the new LUGNET server from a security, software installation,
> and developer account standpoint.
>
> We believe we have found an outstanding co-lo place right here in Boston • and
> will be visiting it tomorrow night after work to check out the facilities.
> If we leave happy, then we will probably bring a server there later this
> week and begin the server transition process.
>
> LUGNET currently runs on a single old beater 900 MHz. Celeron processor
> with a sorta crufty old motherboard that is maxed out at (eeek) 512 MB • RAM.
> More horsepower and RAM will speed things and make plenty of breathing • room
> for additional accounts and software development.
>
>
> Where we're headed
> ------------------
>
> The new system Matthew has spec'ed out includes a dual-processor-capable
> motherboard and 1 to 2 GB of ECC RAM, as well as honkin' system bus and
> two phat ATA disk drives. We don't have a quote on it yet, but Matthew
> estimates it to be around $1700, plus or minus a couple hundred. We can
> always add another processor later as well as more memory, but what we
> start with will still be pretty awesome. Obviously, the more cash we can
> raise toward this, the better system we can afford, which...
>
> ...Brings me to the next part. We actually want to buy {two} new servers:
> one to serve as the production server and the other to serve as a research
> and development server. We think it would be best to purchase both
> together, if possible. We're also thinking we could save a bit of money • by
> putting one drive in each system -- each partitioned with its own area • plus
> a mirror of the other system -- instead of putting two drives in the main
> system. With a second new server, we could also improve overall • reliability
> by running HTTP on one system and NNTP on the other.
>
>
> We'll get there with your help
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>
> I hope you can take a few moments to make a small donation toward this • goal.
> Your contribution will come back to you tenfold in good LEGO karma.
>
> {Leg Godt¬
> Todd}
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