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Re: w00t! Fund Drive for LUGNET Servers
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lugnet.admin.finance
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Fri, 27 Feb 2004 23:32:46 GMT
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Hi Todd,
Just so you know I have some LEGO display stuff I’m putting up on auction on my
Bricklink store.
The display minifig is going to have 10% of the final bid go to lugnet. The
other display stuff will be between 25% and 50% :) (I also need to get it out of
my house :)).
My bricklink store is BRICKBOX http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=stripes.
I’ll post on lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade to announce the various auctions.
-Anne
In lugnet.admin.finance, Todd Lehman wrote:
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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been withdrawn), which gets us about half way to a decent modern server.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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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
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
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
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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