[ale] server troubles (again)

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Dec 15 10:37:46 EST 2011


Hey,

There's a guy in Peachtree City that has a bunch of 1U HP servers
available for $75 each (this is the guy from whom I aquired my racks a
month or so ago).  I can see if he still has any available or get the
appropriate people in touch with him, if it would help?

I don't have any specs.

-derek

Randy Ramsdell <rramsdell at activedg.com> writes:

> Overheating does things like this.
>
> On 12/14/11 22:28, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
>     The ALE server is failing. It has simply died more times than I care to
>     recall and leaves behind a tell-tale trail of
>
>     nothing
>
>     silence
>
>     just a log entry when it is rebooted.
>    
>     Don't get me wrong. The current machine was also a donated one as well as
>     the rack space and bandwidth. And I am, as I'm sure all of us are, very,
>     very grateful.
>    
>     However, this poor system is needing to be put out to pasture.
>    
>     I am looking at a donated machine as a replacement system on offer now. As
>     soon as arrangements can be made to get it racked, and all data duplicated
>     over, things will be better.
>    
>     Thanks for the ALE patience on this.
>    
>     Hopefully the server will stay up long enough to get _this_ notice out...
>    
>     :-)

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