{"id":7179,"date":"2005-04-07T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/04\/07\/server\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:06","slug":"server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/04\/07\/server\/","title":{"rendered":"Server&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; I&#8217;m trying to figure out what disks to use in my web server when I upgrade\/replace bornslippy.nuxx.net.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to do RAID 0+1, so I need four disks. 80GB disks are $60\/ea. 160GB disks are $89\/ea. (Both prices are for Western Digital Special Edition 8MB 7200RPM 3-Year warranty disks.)<\/p>\n<p>So, for $240 I can have 160GB total space, or for $356 I can have 320GB. The 320GB option would allow me to back up all the data I have to the webserver&#8230; Plus $44 for the pair of disk controllers and a few dollars for some brand new round cables.<\/p>\n<p>This could potentially be good, because it&#8217;d give me space for absolutely completely offsite backup. <\/p>\n<p>That said, do I really want to shove all my personal data up to what&#8217;s essentially a public server? I guess it&#8217;d be all right if I did it via an encrypted filesystem that I mount only when doing backups&#8230; That would get the data backups completely out of my house.<\/p>\n<p>This space is definitely not used for the existing content of the site, which I believe currently clocks in at around 15GB &#8211; 20GB.<\/p>\n<p>Ideas? Ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; I&#8217;m trying to figure out what disks to use in my web server when I upgrade\/replace bornslippy.nuxx.net. I&#8217;m going to do RAID 0+1, so I need four disks. 80GB disks are $60\/ea. 160GB disks are $89\/ea. (Both prices are for Western Digital Special Edition 8MB 7200RPM 3-Year warranty disks.) So, for $240 I can\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal","category-nuxxnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14450,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179\/revisions\/14450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}