John Hinton wrote:
It's actually one of our very old boat anchors.. the replacement for which is sitting here waiting for me to move stuff. It's an old Compaq 3000R with dual 500s, a gig of ram and 6 18.2gig wide ultra drives .. raid 5 with hot spare. Dual P/S, redundant fans... was state of the art in 1999! ;)
Yeah the 3000R and 1850R machines were built like the proverbial brick outhouse. Until very recently, I had a few laying around as backup DNS servers and mail servers. We donated a few 1850R's to a local school and they're using them for the school district's web server and mail server. 8-)
These days, I just get a pile of commodity rackmount machines and hide them behind a Foundry ServerIron or Cisco Localdirector for the anthill labour effect. Of course, if some numbnut with a zombie farm wants to take you down, there isn't a whole lot you can do about it unless you've got some serious bandwidth and lots of server horsepower. Sysadmins should just donate $20/year each to the "kneecap a hacker" fund and just send some bad people in to "reason with" the cretins. 8-)
Cheers,