Category Archives: New Toys

One of the reasons why I went through all of these upgrades was to be able to quickly rebuild servers and re provision the services. I have most of my DMZ servers at CentOS 6 64bit (just 1 server is … Continue reading →

My server room cleanup is progressing well, the new rack is in place and seems like things are looking up. I removed a lot of cable, and am slowly getting color coordinated.  Now that I got a a lot of … Continue reading →

And power is holding steady. I am sure there are a bunch of unresolved things still going on in my network. Also cabling is atrocious and the rack ears I have are the wrong size. Getting the right fasteners as … Continue reading →

Its nice getting my servers up, but there are certainly a lot of gremlins on the network. There are little things that aren’t working and this is due to primarily the new firewall.  Its amazing how many things rely on … Continue reading →

Here is how my day went, and to top it off, I had a horrible sleep last night. First off, I had to quickly get a some new servers rewired in the morning. Then I had to present in a … Continue reading →

I been slowly getting my servers up and running, but one item I really want to get up is the new firewall. I should be able to get it up and running this weekend. Just doing pushups and situps.

Time to populate and put it into production. This cost less than $100 including mistakes, it would probably be under $50 if I planned better and just used 2×4’s. I ordered a rail for one of the servers and am … Continue reading →

I finished my server rack but need some cage screws to get stuff in it. Tuesday or Wednesday I will post some pics. Just doing pushups and situps.

I have most of my server rack done.   Hope to post pictures of it online tomorrow. It is not 100% accurate but good enough and it will do the job. Also tried to upgrade the CPU of a Dell … Continue reading →