BRRRAAAINNNSSSSS.... give me your BRAAAINNSS

By coryking
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written 3/20/06 6:08 PM, published 3/20/06 6:08 PM

I've just ordered 512mb more ram for the photographica's webserver which will bump it to a whopping 1gig.  In theory, it should work out of the box.  In.  Theory.  It's a bit older of a machine (in fact, it was made in 1998) so there is question as to if it will work at all.

For the chronic refreshers, that is why the server was down for 30 minutes.  I had to pull it from its cozy little rack and see exactly what was inside.

For those that care, here is what is inside:

ansel.xlan.org: aka Photographica/Artclick Webserver

  • 1u Dell Poweredge 350
  • P3 750mhz /w 440bx intel chipset
  • 512mb ecc/registered PC100 ram
  • Two old ghetto 70 gig IDE hard drives on a (software) RAID1 array.
  • SuSE 9.2 Linux
  • Apache 1.3.7 /w mod_perl & mod_ssl
  • Photographica's codebase (2.8 megs of pure perl code)
  • Memcached
strider.xlan.org: aka Photographica Database Server
  • 4u, whitebox, old school case (arg)
  • p4 2ghz
  • 512mb ram
  • two 120gig IDE drives on a raid1 array (also software)
  • SuSE 9.2 Linux
  • mySQL 5
  • Also running subversion for version control and FogBugz for issue tracking.
Facility
  • colo'd with my hosting company, XLAN, which is nestled into a half rack in Colo Centers on the 18th floor of the Westin Building in Downtown Seattle.
  • 100mbit internet connection (about 100 times faster then your typical high speed internet such as DSL)
  • All the bells & whistles that come with colo: generator, battery, AC, beefy guys with shotguns (they really aren't that beefy though)
Someday I might take pictures, but I suspect that such an act might be frowned upon for security purposes.


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