As previously mentioned, my old server died.  It took a little time to save up the spare change to replace it.  Especially since I decided to get something with more horsepower than I needed at the moment.  I wanted room to grow.

I grabbed a Shuttle SK41G computer with an XP1900+ AMD processor, 512 Meg memory, 80 Gig hard drive (8Meg cache, 7200RPM), DVD/CD reader, and no floppy drive.  Floppies are dead.  If I need to transfer a file without the network I can use my Laks watch.

This is a sweet system.  It’s running Apache (web server), Samba (file server), Exim (mail server), SpamAssassin (anti-spam filtering), ClamAV (email virus scanning), and a bunch of other things and hasn’t started to break a sweat.  The processor usage is so low that it hardly ever shows up on the graph.  I’ll be able to throw all kinds of projects at it and not worry about slowing it down — which was reasoning for getting more system than needed.

Oh. One more thing.  It doesn’t have a monitor, keyboard, or mouse.  It’s completely headless and sits in my closet connected to a big-ass UPS.

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