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mirage335's Server

Status

Awaiting pickup.

Plan

Maximum stability, minimum maintenance. All-purpose, running Debian Stable.

Probable Uses

  • Xen VPS hosting.
  • Support for local Gentoo/Funtoo machines (binary package compilation, private ebuild hosting, private file/repository hosting, etc).
  • Webserver hosting.

Hardware

Requirements

  • >=4 cores total, at >2GHz
  • >=4GB RAM
  • >=3*500GB SATA Disks (first 100GB on each disk RAID0 for performance)

The better the hardware, the heavier the workload this machine can take on.

VM Servers

Plan

Have multiple coordinated VM servers for use with projects, as control interfaces to tools, and as a PXE server for thin clients.

Hardware

Requirements

  • >=6 cores total
  • >10GB RAM
  • dual >=1Gb/s NICs or ability to add with consumer grade hardware
  • sata out the wazzoo

FOSSable

  • coreboot support

Implementation

Multiple servers


NAS

Plan

Have network attached redundant storage for use as a VM image source and as a software and media repository.

Specs

  • 64bit
  • >1 core
  • >=2GB RAM
  • 1+ >=1Gb/s NIC
  • as much storage space as can be acquired

Implementation

Proxy

Plan

Have a machine that can capture requests for common ISOs and distro packages and use local copies fetched during non business hours.

Specs

  • 64bit
  • >2 core
  • 1+ >=1Gb/s NIC

Implementation