And more spam

While doing this, i also noticed the critical nature of the server hard-drives. Each one is getting dangerously full. I’m hopping that in the next week or two (or three), i’ll be able to purchase a new “work” computer, a couple of 300Gig drives, and move the current work box downstairs to become the HTTP server. I’ll use the two new 300Gig drives in a mirror, as there is no backup system or plan in place for all the data on the server right now. This is a “bad thing”. With an extra computer in the server farm downstairs, i should be able to reduce the overall load by farming out all the tasks that the current single server handles onto 2 (possibly 3) machines.

The main things i need to run are: HTTP/Web server, Email, and slimserver for my MP3’s. I should also include a File Server. Right now there is a single box doing all of these.

I’m thinking that the new box will takeover the HTTP/Web tasks. Possibly also become the new File Server. The “old server” box will become the main email machine. I’ve got another old ‘puter that is sitting unused, which i may press into service as the MP3 server. That would really help spread the load out.

The one bummer is that i’d probably still put win2k onto the boxes, as i am still unsure of myself when it comes to running Linux/BSD servers. Every time i say “this time, i’m getting rid of windows”, but then i run into a problem, and i can’t figure out how to fix it, and i just default back to the OS i know, if not love. Sigh. I guess we will see how it goes.

I’d like to dual boot winXP and Ubuntu, and see if i can move to using a non-windows OS as a primary development platform… Unfortunately, while some of my dev work would be unaffected (Python, other web dev, etc), there isn’t great support for the flash player on Linux, and that’s a pretty important tool/platform for me. Actually, it looks like there is a player for version 7 (MX2004), which is my current target. And i know MTASC is available for Linux… Well, we’ll see.