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11/07/2007 19:08 #42032

The New Server Arrives
Category: server

It finally came today and it seems pretty great. I am going to keep it here a bit and install and test and upgrade, then soon I will swap old the old server and we will be on the new one. Thank you everyone who helped make this possible.

I still can't believe the specs - 2x dual core 3.0 ghz, 2x73 hardware raided 15k drives, 1333mhz front side bus, 4GB of ram, redundant power supply, dual nics.

It was in perfect shape.

It is so quiet that honestly, I think our Xbox is louder.

I can't believe I got it for ~$1800 considering its cost for the same exact specs if I bought it on the Dell site right now $6,000+

I transfered ownership on the Dell website for the warranty and service plan which runs through 2010.

fellyconnelly - 11/08/07 10:02
yay!

11/05/2007 22:56 #41993

Traffic
Category: estrip

Here at estrip we usually get about 500 unique real visitors coming from javascript enabled browsers. But recently the number started to climb close to 1,000. Its weird there are no new very exceptional referrers and most traffic is still coming from google or direct.

This last month we had 23,000 visitors.

Imagine if there were some other incoming links. Anyone have any they could put up somewhere, there estrip link code on the front page of the site.

The only out of the ordinary referrer is a google images search for britney spears pussy. Which brings my journal even with adult content filtering on. But that only counts for 3% of visitors. Which is only 30 out of 1000. Although, I still can't believe we rank so high for it. Check it out or try for yourself

. Look at (e:mike) in there, lol.

We are on a general upward trend. Here we are since last April when I started tracking with google analytics.

dragonlady7 - 11/06/07 08:46
That's really interesting.
I have a sort of unofficial policy of not linking to (e:strip) out of the mistaken belief that it's my only blog that's still kind of secret, but I know that's not even remotely reasonable to believe. I should probably just link to it. But I think most of the people that would come read it do anyway. ;)

drew - 11/05/07 23:27
I know that my church's website counts go way up when I comment on popular conservative Christian blogs. They follow all of my links to investigate just what kind of heretic I am. I have estrip listed as my blog, and I have posted recently, so I'll bet I brought a few extra hits.

11/05/2007 22:10 #41991

The server is on its way
Category: server

11/5/2007 6:32:00 PM ORIGIN SCAN WATERTOWN, CT US
11/5/2007 3:56:00 PM BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED US

11/02/2007 14:17 #41942

Bought the New Server - $1869
Category: server

We got us a Dell 1950 server with:
2 x 73GB 15k SAS drives Raid - upgradeable to 1TB
2 x 3.0 GHz dual core xeons - upgradeable to Quad core
4GB ram - upgradeable up to 32GB
1333 mhz front size bus
redundant power
RHEL certified
Small form factor - although as Ajax pointed out this doesn't matter for us, unless we are in a rack someday.

4 hours of onsite service from dell before Jan 2008
4 more hours of onsite service from dell before jan 2010
gold service warranty till 2010

Best of all it all comes from one place to my house and I already paid for it. With shipping it came to $1,869. Selling the vaio laptop for (e:ladycroft) or (e:drew) will defray the cost. If anyone else didn't donate and still wants to, feel free - I am going to leave the message up for a bit.

lizabeth - 11/02/07 22:56
Woohoo! Hooray for new (old) computer stuff!

Btw... this is a small thing - but you've got everyone else's userpic next to their donation on the donation page... but for mine, it just has my name. :( lizabeth = Elizabeth Williamson

ajay - 11/02/07 17:43
Congratulations!

I would have built my own, because to me, computers are like cars. I love tinkering with my boxes (I've got 4 running right now, all built by me). These days you can get a good deal from NewEgg :::link::: .
In fact, I'll be building a new box soon, and will go for a quad-core with 2GB of memory.

mrmike - 11/02/07 16:18
No worries, with no health insurance for another 40 days, I might need installments

paul - 11/02/07 15:40
Sorry about the order mixup thing.

drew - 11/02/07 15:02
yeah, he was, and I don't have the money and when I do I think I want a mac.

mrmike - 11/02/07 14:49
If LC declines, I was second in the laptop quest....just sayin....

11/02/2007 01:16 #41930

Okay I think I need a little more
Category: server

I think I underestimated the price a little bit. So we are back to 78.9%. I could buy a cheaper supermicro server and hope for the best as it is not certified for Centos 5 and has no warranty, or spend a little more and get a used, certified centos compatible server with a 2 year warranty and drives in it already. The dell server is definitely something that would work for a long time.

The difference, however, is me spending another $462 dollars.

At least we won't need a windows license!

If anybody still wants to donate, now is the time. I might just have to pay for it up front as the auction ends in 13 hours!

Also, if anyone want to buy my old Vaio s360 cuteass laptop (e:paul,31660) I am willing to part with it for $500 to make up the extra money. It is still a great computer. It was around $2000 when I got it less than 2 years ago.

On the other hand I might just go ahead and risk it on another supermicro

,that is what we have right now. But what if it doesn't work, it owuld be such a waste of money.

news - 11/02/07 11:07
The laptop has 1 GB of ram.

The reason I do not build my own ajay, is because I don't have any extra time. I built the last one. It was fine. I ordered all the parts separately, put in the chips, the paste hte ram, the hardrive. Screwed everything together, etc.

It takes time. No matter how easy it is. I am going to be dealing with several vendors for the parts, more time shopping, the time to put it together. Waiting for everything to come separately and then pickig it all up from the post office at night because I can't let them leave the server parts outside my house. Its not worth it when I can get a perfectly good used one for not that much more and have a two year warranty on it. I don't know if you ever had a Dell machine under warranty but hey basically service everything quickly.

I am already going to be doing so much software configuration.

As for the form factor you are right, I don't need a 1U in fact I would rather have a 2U for expandability as ease of working on it. However, the Dell I was looking at is not new but a used one, that comes how it is.

When I priced out a new supermicro with CPU and hardrives, the used supermicro one I put the link to was cheaper.

drew - 11/02/07 08:41
(e:Drew) is interested. It still has the RAM that you added? Anything else we should know about it?

janelle - 11/02/07 08:20
(e:Drew) might be interested in a laptop.

mrmike - 11/02/07 07:21
I'd be interested as well

ladycroft - 11/02/07 06:08
i would be interested in your laptop!

ajay - 11/02/07 01:39
Why not build your own? You don't need the 1U formfactor. You could build a kickass machine for about $1K.You're most probably I/O-bound anyways; so load up on gobs of RAM and get a scraming-fast Quad-core puppy.