MOVING SERVERS TODAY

[Tony]

Ok. Sounds like a permissions thing, I'll take a look when I get home.  And at the spellcheck and backup situation.

[Tony]

On a related note, I'm getting FTTC installed on Monday, 80mbps down, 20 up. Considering building a new server machine to keep up with it

[Julian]

Thanks Tony.

Do you want any contributions to the new server?  Happy to offer a few beer tokens, but I also dismantled an old but quite high spec PC recently.  It had some rather peculiar looking ram several fans and some funny heat exchanger thing with a copper block and tubes on the processor.  I kept the bits above just out of principle but I don't have a use for them.  I also have an oldish Dell you are welcome to if the parts are any good.  If you think any of it may be of use I can bring them on Saturday.


Spell checker would be warmly welcomed!

[Tony]

Trouble uploading photos again I'm afraid.  I get this warning ...

Could not create directory ‘mwstore://local-backend/local-public/8/85’.

Quite prepared to accept it's me being a pillock, but I've tried several times and get the same message.

Photos have been down sized to 800 x 600 px and 72 dpi, and just over 100Kb, so I don't think it can be file size.

OK, I think I've got it.  Can you try again?

[Julian]

Still the same I'm afraid!

[Tony]

Strange.  I've uploaded a 4000x3000 jpg and it was happy with that.  Nothing unusual about the image format?
I'll peer through the logs, maybe there's a clue.

[Julian]

I've been trying three photos I saved from Dicks post on the forum ... I'll try another photo.

[Tony]

I've found another issue - it may work now?

[Julian]

Another file I tried did ... I'll try the others again.

[Tony]

Spell check is back 

[Julian]

Strange ... the test file seemed to end up with the same name as the Dick file, however, the waving of your magic wand worked wonders again ... Thanks Tony.

Appreciate smell check!

[therecklessengineer]

I do actually have an HP server, complete with SCSI RAID setup if you want it...

[Tony]

Well, thank you for the kind offers, but part of the desire to build a server is to trim down on the power consumption.  Can't see raid arrays helping with that

Currently it's a pretty barebones P4 2.8 machine, which draws 50W at idle and 80W under load - so the yearly leccy cost is something like £65.  That's more than I spend making 20x 125l batches of biodiesel at 16kWh a batch!

So I'm considering either a 18W GA-E350-USB3 (nice bit of kit, integrated board and dual core processor - but it might be a bit underpowered), or a suitable dual core Celeron like this'n:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel-celeron-dual-core-g550t-1155-sandy-bridge-m-dual-core-22ghz-2mb-smart-cache-oem

...which is 35W vs the P4's 65W.

Trouble is, the payback period by the time I've added memory, mobo, sata disk, PSU and case is up at the 4 year mark so is it worth it?

I couldn't take any donations because our little server is used for lots of other things than websites, namely content filtering for the kids, CCTV, being our mailserver - the webserver bit is just a sideline really.

[therecklessengineer]

I thought you'd say that. It's precisely the reason why I don't use it - it's about 350W at full chat! I use an old laptop as my server machine. 7W is much more manageable.

[Tony]

Did consider a laptop, it's got built in battery backup.  Trouble is the CCTV capture cards are all full height PCI which is bit of a limiting factor.  Some docking stations allow PCI cards but then it's starting to become bit of a Frankenstein's monster!

I like the idea of a little mini-itx case, they have space for a PCI card and they're pretty compact.