When I was still living with my parents I decided to setup a server so I can store all my files. This kinda grew into a local web server for development, mail gateway, DNS, and so on. Essentially any time I upgraded my workstation, the old machine would be the new server. At one point I bought hardware to build a server, rather than use "older" hardware. Was a core2quad with 8GB of ram. When I moved into my house I converted this box to rackmount and put it in my rack, which I setup maybe a few years after I moved in.
It has been running ever since. Over the years I added more servers such as a dedicated storage server, VM server, home automation server etc so lot of tasks from this server got moved over to those boxes, or new VMs. Except for mail. Mail is a PITA to setup, so I just kept getting lazy. The other day I finally decided I should just virtualize it so I can at least turn off the hardware. That was a success, and I finally turned it down. The OS install date is around 2008, and it's running Fedora Core 9. Yeah, suppose it was time to retire this box.
Since the CPU has VT-D, it does make a good test bed for trying out a new VM solution though. I want to look into something more open, that supports clustering (without expensive licensing) such as Proxmox.
It could use a bit of a cleanup though.
10+ years has been a good run! This box has seen 1,000+ day uptimes. The reboots were usually power related, such as recently when one of my UPS batteries got a shorted cell so it died prematurely during a long power outage.
Think I will clean this box up and still use it for something. I won't be surprised if I find spider egg sacs in there, so part of me wants to clean it up, and the other part of me wants to leave it alone.
It has been running ever since. Over the years I added more servers such as a dedicated storage server, VM server, home automation server etc so lot of tasks from this server got moved over to those boxes, or new VMs. Except for mail. Mail is a PITA to setup, so I just kept getting lazy. The other day I finally decided I should just virtualize it so I can at least turn off the hardware. That was a success, and I finally turned it down. The OS install date is around 2008, and it's running Fedora Core 9. Yeah, suppose it was time to retire this box.
Since the CPU has VT-D, it does make a good test bed for trying out a new VM solution though. I want to look into something more open, that supports clustering (without expensive licensing) such as Proxmox.
It could use a bit of a cleanup though.
10+ years has been a good run! This box has seen 1,000+ day uptimes. The reboots were usually power related, such as recently when one of my UPS batteries got a shorted cell so it died prematurely during a long power outage.
Think I will clean this box up and still use it for something. I won't be surprised if I find spider egg sacs in there, so part of me wants to clean it up, and the other part of me wants to leave it alone.
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