We’ve finally been able to upgrade our internet service to symmetrical gigabit fiber, visitors should see significantly faster image loads (text loads were already being cached by cloudflare so shouldn’t see much difference there), we were previously hosting on a 20mbps DSL connection, so this is a big upgrade! I’d guess that any bottlenecks on our hosting now are solely in the hardware of the Raspberry Pi4 (or SD card) that’s hosting it, might need to look into migrating that into a VM on my NAS server or something.
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Gigabit fiber service
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My friend Ryan and I made the 4 hour drive out to the BitHistory.org warehouse to spend the weekend with our friend Garrett. Garrett was doing a public sale at the warehouse, we wanted to go out there to help him sort/prep and hang out for the weekend.
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Store area
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Private warehouse (with Ryan P)
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Me in the store
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Me in the warehouse
I picked up a few new goodies at the warehouse sale too:
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My partner and I were camping about 75 miles from home and happened into an antique shop and I found this cool butt-set for a reasonable price, picked it up to add to my collection of about 4 or 5 other butt-sets.
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BECO Buttset
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BECO Buttset
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My friend Ryan and I traveled from Minneapolis MN to Appleton WI (289mi/465km) and spent the weekend with our friend Garrett digging through his warehouse and geeking out over cool vintage tech.
The major items I picked up are a first gen intel Mac Mini 1,1 and an IBM 5150 with Model F keyboard and 5151 monitor.
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Me working on the IBM 5150 I ended up buying
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2006 Intel Mac Mini 1,1
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Switched DNS for my sites to Cloudflare, since my sites are all just small hobby sites I can use their free plan. I can leverage their CDN and DDoS protection, plus free SSL. Should hopefully make the site more responsive and protect my network and web-server too.
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Got everything moved over to the new backbone switch, it’s just temporarily installed on the wall until we get the 19″ rack cabinet moved into the basement (it needs to be disassembled first to fit down the stairs). Should be some noticable power savings too, this uses 1/4 of the power that the previous Avaya/Nortel 5510-48 switch used.
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TRENDnet TEG-30284.
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Mess of wires until rack gets installed.
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Retired Baystack 5510-48T
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We had a basement flood about 2 months ago now caused by a burst water heater, it destroyed some of the infrastructure systems for our house, unfortunately my NAS servers, some network gear, and house mechanical systems were all flooded and damaged/lost.
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About half the water pumped out, everything that was stacked or on a low shelf floated around and made a HUGE mess.
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Storage area mess, most the plastic totes I thought would be flood safe all floated, tipped over, and filled with water anyways, anything that was on top of them tipped off too.
Luckily my Router, CCTV surveillance server, and domain controller were all sitting on top of the NAS servers and were spared from the flood.
I have an old slow HP Microserver L40N acting as my NAS for the time being, however, I will be picking up something faster, and rack-mountable, since I was able to get a “1/2 rack” that was being disposed of from work. I have a new network switch (with 4x10G SFP+ ports) on the way, I will be installing all the current and future equipment into the rack once I get it down into the basement (it needs to be disassembled, it will not fit down the stairs in one piece). I will be keeping equipment (other than maybe a UPS/PDU) out of the bottom 12U just in case we ever flood again.
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The Dell 1/2 rack I was able to get from work (all equipment was removed)
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New mechanical systems in the basement, and storage area cleaned up.
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