{"id":31,"date":"2008-04-22T15:49:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T19:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2008-04-22T15:49:49","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T19:49:49","slug":"tyan-transport-gx28-b2882","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/tyan-transport-gx28-b2882\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyan Transport GX28 (B2882)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just hit submit at Newegg.com<\/a> to complete the purchase of a Tyan Transport GX28<\/a> server with a Tyan Thunder K8S Pro (S2882)<\/a>. As item number N82E16856152008<\/a> the barebones server was only $409.99, with $31.24 shipping. Thanks to a friend helping me out with some RAM and some disks which I’ll be able to make redundant I’ll likely end up with a 1U server with a pair of Opteron 800-series CPUs, 8GB of RAM, and mirrored 500GB SATA disks.<\/p>\n

This all brings about an interesting question of where to host the new box. I’ve discussed this before<\/a>, and the more I think about it the more I want to get my box out of Waveform. Things are working fine for now, but I question what will happen if or when the box does start to have problems. The provider I’m most seriously looking at would run $100\/mo <\/p>\n

So, now I just have to wait for things to be shipped and delivered and then I can start assembling it all. I imagine I’ll let it cook for a few weeks to a month before installing it. It’ll be running FreeBSD 7.0<\/a>, likely with a custom kernel and world rebuilt specifically for the CPU. I think I’ll also want to give the new ULE scheduler a go, particularly after seeing this presentation<\/a> (PDF) about where FreeBSD is going.<\/p>\n

I’ll continue to stick with lighttpd<\/a>, although I hope that the OpenSSL bug in 1.4.19<\/a> is fixed in ports soon. Disks will likely be mirrored with gmirror<\/a>, although I will investigate the on-board hardware RAID. I’ll probably also stick with MySQL<\/a> for the db and Postfix<\/a> for mail. Basically, nothing will change in that regard.<\/p>\n

I may opt to eliminate some individuals I currently host from the box, mostly because I never have contact with them. I don’t mind hosting people, but when the sites sit mostly unused and I have almost no contact with the individuals who use them (except when there are problems, of course), it’s a bit frustrating to keep up maintenance on apps running on the sites. Also, this new provider has stricter limits on bandwidth (1mb, 95th<\/sup> percentile), and I need to be a bit more careful about how it is used. Anyway, if I’m opting to remove your site from hosting I’ll contact you outside of here and provide you with a chance to get your data.<\/p>\n

For now I wait, then build. This could be pretty nifty. Oh, and the colocation provider offers IPv6 at no extra charge, so that ought to be fun to play with as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just hit submit at Newegg.com to complete the purchase of a Tyan Transport GX28 server with a Tyan Thunder K8S Pro (S2882). As item…<\/p>\n

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