[TPIN] ADMIN- SERVER ISSUES

[William Graham]

Count me in. Here is a link to a Dell rack mounted server, but there are 
many on the market.....
http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/servers?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&~ck=anavml

With all the members on this list, it would only cost us a few dollars 
each.....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Anderson" <manderson at okcu.edu>
To: <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 8:57 PM
Subject: [TPIN] ADMIN- SERVER ISSUES


> The server was down most of the day today.
>
> The university is moving the server room and is going through all sorts of
> upgrades.
>
> The server we are using is quite old and a bit unstable. Thanks to 
> long-time
> list member and Unix guru, Joe Meador and the campus technology guys here 
> we
> have kept it up and running most of the time.
>
> The university is going to a bank of servers that are all rack mounted and
> in specially cooled racks that will keep everything running smoothly and
> well coordinated.
>
> In order to keep the TPIN server as a part of the University system a
> dedicated rack-mounted server has to be purchased. Now, I can keep the
> current server running, but it will have to be installed elsewhere and 
> will
> no longer be supported by the University. This concerns me greatly for a
> couple of reasons.. 1. I don't have the expertise to manage the server
> myself and 2. When I am not around, gone traveling, the server may go down
> and not be able to be rebooted for several days and maybe even weeks.
>
> SO - to make a long story longer, I am looking to purchase a low-end rack
> mounted server that can go into our stable of servers and still be
> maintained by our guys. The thing will be much more stable than what we 
> have
> now and will server us better than anything we've had in the past 12 years
> of the TPIN's existence.
>
> TPIN has always been free to the users and always will be as long as I'm
> running it. However, we have raised money for special reasons in the past
> ... I think 3 times in 12 years. I don't take this lightly and wouldn't 
> even
> consider it if I didn't think it would be a really positive thing for us 
> to
> do.
>
> I would like to know what the members think of think of this idea. If you
> feel like you could contribute to this fund raising effort and would make 
> a
> pledge to me, please send me a private email. I will collect no money 
> until
> I'm sure it will work and that we can raise the money without burdening 
> any
> individual too much. I am donating $200 and the ITG will contribute a bit
> more than that because the TPIN server provides email forwarding to the 
> ITG.
> So, we are already part way there.
>
> Please let me know what you think.
>
> MA
>
>
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