I fear my 5+ year old server is on it's death bed. Long story short, it locked up for the first time ever yesterday, and it took multiple tries, POST failures, and loading the bios defaults to get it to boot.
Current server does these tasks and more: dns hosting, e-mail server, firewall, dhcp, smb file sharing, printer server, security cam server, MythTV media center server, movie/music/tv show repository, etc. etc. etc.
I'm going to replace this with 2 servers and split the tasks. Ok, so maybe "servers" is a bit of a stretch. I decided to seriously cheap out and cut my electricity use so I ordered 2 nettop (book size mini) computers. The first is designed to be a firewall type appliance. Dual 1G nics, Atom processor, 2G ram, 64G SSD drive - this will take over firewall, dns, e-mail, dhcp type tasks. The second is a Celeron 857 based netbook, 2G ram, 64G SDD, single 1G nic - it gets the rest of the server duties.
I was worried a netbook wouldn't have enough grunt for my media server, then I compared the CPUs offered in netbooks to my existing server which has never had performance issues and found the Celeron 857 is almost identical.
The next question, just leave them as 2 servers with separate functions? Set them up so I can manually start stuff up if one dies? Maybe go all out with a HA cluster?
Current server does these tasks and more: dns hosting, e-mail server, firewall, dhcp, smb file sharing, printer server, security cam server, MythTV media center server, movie/music/tv show repository, etc. etc. etc.
I'm going to replace this with 2 servers and split the tasks. Ok, so maybe "servers" is a bit of a stretch. I decided to seriously cheap out and cut my electricity use so I ordered 2 nettop (book size mini) computers. The first is designed to be a firewall type appliance. Dual 1G nics, Atom processor, 2G ram, 64G SSD drive - this will take over firewall, dns, e-mail, dhcp type tasks. The second is a Celeron 857 based netbook, 2G ram, 64G SDD, single 1G nic - it gets the rest of the server duties.
I was worried a netbook wouldn't have enough grunt for my media server, then I compared the CPUs offered in netbooks to my existing server which has never had performance issues and found the Celeron 857 is almost identical.
The next question, just leave them as 2 servers with separate functions? Set them up so I can manually start stuff up if one dies? Maybe go all out with a HA cluster?