Thread: Huge Grid Computer

Guys,
I wanted to joke with you all. This is my server that runs my website with drupal and mysql.


It's a huge GRID. lol


Just kidding,
I am running my blog from here, its pretty cool. This is the corner of my office at my house.
This is a centos 5.4 server running a LAMP stack. I bought this server for $50.00 on ebay.

Sweet

PS:
I did not install the wallpaper!! It was here when I moved in.


http://jason.itmftp.com/grid1.jpeg


Jaysunn

Khh.. any details on specs?

Sure:

Code:

[root@history ~]# uname -a
Linux history.shellasaurus.com 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Mar 17 11:37:14 EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

CPU x 4

Code:

[root@history ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 15
model		: 2
model name	: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.66GHz

MEM:

Code:

[root@history ~]# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          2026       1594        431          0        192       1081
-/+ buffers/cache:        321       1705
Swap:         4031          0       4031

Very Small 80 GB drive:

Code:

[root@history ~]# df -kh
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                       63G  3.9G   56G   7% /
/dev/sda2              99M   18M   76M  19% /boot

jaysunn

Cool.. so you did not hosted on any hosting solutions
any reason why you did not go for hosting solutions?

Originally Posted by kumarat9pm

Cool.. so you did not hosted on any hosting solutions
any reason why you did not go for hosting solutions?

For all your hobby projects home server is prefect, IMHO.

Well,
I do not pay for electric in my apartment so I was not concerned about that factor. I have a cable internet connection that is really fast and I purchased a router / firewall from linksys that allows for the security and port forwarding needed.

I also knew that it will take a long time and a lot of data to start getting a lot of traffic. When that happens I will switch to a hosted solution.

For now the entire experience has been fun. I am running VMWARE as well, so I plan to install everything a small company would use for learning. BIND, DNS , NIS / YP or LDAP, EMAIL , PROXY etc.......

I know that the machine is limited so I have been looking into some cool small linux systems.


jaysunn

hmm good.. and realistic too..

Nice setup
doesn't it make much noise ? and what about cooling ?

I am facing the cooling issues this week with the Summer here in the States kicking off. There is a large picture window that the sun sets into and it gets hot. Over the Winter it was fine, but now I may need a small A/C unit in there to compensate. As for the noise, to my surprise it is really not that loud. And I can close the door to the room in the evening.


jaysunn

I'd be interested to know what powers nixcraft and its blog? What kind of hardware does nixcraft run on?