x4200 yz250 abc123
- Posted: 6 months ago
- Tags:archlinux, newserver, x4200, yz250
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Wow long time and no updates. Things have been really crazy the past month. April got off to a good start as I bought a 2001 yz250 
sometime in the first half of the month. It has been a blast and I only have a few scratches and bruises. So far anyways.
Then as I was just getting back from a dust filled weekend camping in the desert, 2 of my most valued servers started to have some major issues. After a few trips to the datacenter, and long hours spent troubleshooting, I was able to get things working, but with a number of bandaids in place. This was good, and brought me some peace after three 40 hour days in one week.
So, finally I bit the bullet, and realized that I have been primarily living off of these 2 servers for the past few years and depending on their utter survival for my existence. It was time to buy a new server, one that is going to not give me any trouble for a bit. So I purchased a Sun x4200. Dual Opterons, 4gb of ram (expandable to 32gb :o), dual 10k rpm SAS drives, dual power supplies, remote management. I am excited. 
So finally it has arrived and I am going to finish setting it up this weekend. My setup will consist of Archlinux running a full suite of mail software including Cyrus and Postfix on it. I will be doing the migration this sunday, so I am sure there will be some downtime. If things go well hopefully not too much.
