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For the first time in 10 years, I have no servers running in my house.
At one point, I had three servers running in here doing various things. Then, I moved nala offsite (she's in the rack at work). That left two more Gentoo boxes running here in the house.
Late last year I picked up a 1TB external hard drive, which I attached to my iMac and deactivated the file server.
That just left a single Gentoo box that was running Asterisk and various network services. But I finally convinced my wife to let me drop the goofy VoIP line that I was paying $30 for and just add more minutes to her cellphone. With Asterisk out of the picture, the only thing left running on that box was network services.
Well, last week I ordered a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND router, intending to use it as a testbed for DD-WRT. Well, my experiments worked so well that I pulled my old router out and replaced it with the DD-WRT one. The faster processor also afforded a nice speed bump of about 7 Mb/s. With it handling all the services, I pulled out the final server and deactivated it.
My office is so quiet.
The router was also the first part of my migration to gigabit for everything in the house. Next step is a new switch which will enable all the gigabit devices in the house to utilize all the internal bandwidth.
Finally, I'm seriously considering buying a Drobo FS and putting 5 2TB drives in there.
At one point, I had three servers running in here doing various things. Then, I moved nala offsite (she's in the rack at work). That left two more Gentoo boxes running here in the house.
Late last year I picked up a 1TB external hard drive, which I attached to my iMac and deactivated the file server.
That just left a single Gentoo box that was running Asterisk and various network services. But I finally convinced my wife to let me drop the goofy VoIP line that I was paying $30 for and just add more minutes to her cellphone. With Asterisk out of the picture, the only thing left running on that box was network services.
Well, last week I ordered a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND router, intending to use it as a testbed for DD-WRT. Well, my experiments worked so well that I pulled my old router out and replaced it with the DD-WRT one. The faster processor also afforded a nice speed bump of about 7 Mb/s. With it handling all the services, I pulled out the final server and deactivated it.
My office is so quiet.
The router was also the first part of my migration to gigabit for everything in the house. Next step is a new switch which will enable all the gigabit devices in the house to utilize all the internal bandwidth.
Finally, I'm seriously considering buying a Drobo FS and putting 5 2TB drives in there.