{"id":3375,"date":"2017-08-01T21:45:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2017-08-01T21:45:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:45:38","slug":"goodbye-box-at-a-data-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2017\/08\/01\/goodbye-box-at-a-data-centre","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye box at a data centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 1 2017 marks the day I stop colocating a box at a data centre.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[byte@hogwarts ~]$ uptime<\/p>\n<p>22:07:55 up 522 days, 19:40,  1 user,  load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This particular box has been in the data centre from 2008. It survived one data centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bytebot\/posts\/10153118897907621\">bankruptcy<\/a> (Jaring), moved along to another, and now I feel the box is to be replaced by a few instances at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linode.com\/?r=5c41cb4011b1f0e88e2e3a6ab8d377a1221ad436\">Linode<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalocean.com\/?refcode=bbecbeab11c0\">Digital Ocean<\/a>, and also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/r.cgi?629136\">DreamHost<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This marks my last CentOS 5 box. This marks the last time I will deal with MySQL 5.0.95. <\/p>\n<p>The box wasn&#8217;t too bad either (though woefully out of warranty). It was a Dell 1U box. Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3210  @ 2.13GHz, 4 cores. Paltry 4GB of RAM. Did mail, web, DNS, and a few other bits, quite well. 2 spinning disks, RAID setup, 500GB storage. Its still healthy ([UU] in <code>\/proc\/mdstat<\/code>). <\/p>\n<p>As soon as I get it back, I&#8217;ll spin it up at the office, pop on some newer version of Linux and see how long it continues serving!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Goodbye%20box%20at%20a%20data%20centre&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2017%2F08%2F01%2Fgoodbye-box-at-a-data-centre&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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It survived one data centre bankruptcy (Jaring), moved along to another, and now I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Goodbye%20box%20at%20a%20data%20centre&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2017%2F08%2F01%2Fgoodbye-box-at-a-data-centre&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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