I thought I would end up having to wait a while to get back to work on my render farm because I didn't have the servers I needed. Low and behold, 2 servers were donated to me by my family.
After scrounging some old disks for testing I now have 3 servers.
Right now, 2 of them are being used as test beds: 1 is now running a test run of NAS4Free for the family's internal backup/media server. I have some problems copying files but I'm working on it (timeout and permission issues). I am I am installing a test run of Ubuntu Server on the second new server. If I can make this work with LAMP (webserver), Samba File Share, and Mail server, I will reformat my 2011 Windows SBS server and reinstall on it because it has 2x the memory and 2x the hard drive space for email storage.
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Sunday, May 5, 2013
NAS server test
So for the last week I have been experimenting with several free Linux-based NAS solutions: openfiler, nas4free, and freeNAS. I have unfortunately run into several problems with both: primarily that the server stops responding while copying files.
Not being able to copy is going to be a HUGE problem moving forward regarding both replication and storage with the customer's files. I am unsure if this is a common software issue (if I'm downloading a version too advanced for my hardware) or if this is an inherent problem with my hardware.
My hardware is rather dated: Opteron 242 1.6GHz with 4GB of RAM. It's a 64-bit hardware solution running on a x86-64 Linux OS. I currently do not know enough to effectively solve this. I will need to seek help from the various OS' communities
Not being able to copy is going to be a HUGE problem moving forward regarding both replication and storage with the customer's files. I am unsure if this is a common software issue (if I'm downloading a version too advanced for my hardware) or if this is an inherent problem with my hardware.
My hardware is rather dated: Opteron 242 1.6GHz with 4GB of RAM. It's a 64-bit hardware solution running on a x86-64 Linux OS. I currently do not know enough to effectively solve this. I will need to seek help from the various OS' communities
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
1st Server Status :: Operational .. Mostly
OS is finally installed. I'm going through the final configuration. I need to start picking out the server side programs (anti virus primarily). I'm going through the whole Exchange nightmare now of making sure that only certain firewall ports are open. Stuck on the email and RDP ports at the moment. DNS changes have been made (and will need to be made again when I bring the server home).
final piece (besides email folder setup, rules, etc)will be the customer portal. I'm hoping to get the intial portal up by the end of this week (as soon as the firewall is done)
I almost have enough cash to buy the second server (initial access storage) where the source files will be uploaded and read from and the render files will be saved to.
final piece (besides email folder setup, rules, etc)will be the customer portal. I'm hoping to get the intial portal up by the end of this week (as soon as the firewall is done)
I almost have enough cash to buy the second server (initial access storage) where the source files will be uploaded and read from and the render files will be saved to.
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