New Server Hardware In Place!

[Mike Bobbitt]

Good news folks, our UPS just arrived... it's a beast! It's charging now and I'll likely plug the gear into it some time tonight. That'll mean about 10 minutes of down time, assuming nothing catches fire.


Cheers
Mike

 

[foo32]

I have to say this is a beautifully laid-out bulletin-board -- probably the best I've seen anywhere (my compliments!).  Out of curiosity is this a Linux/PHP/MySQL/PHPBB setup, an MS Windows-based machine of some kind, or something else?

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

We're the usual Linux/MySQL/PHP setup. The forums use Simple Machines as the base software.

 

[foo32]

We're the usual Linux/MySQL/PHP setup. The forums use Simple Machines as the base software.

Interesting ... I've never heard of the 'Simple Machines' BB software.  I'll have to check it out, thanks!

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

http://www.simplemachines.org/

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

...and that's it, the UPS is now in place! We should be able to survive a power outage when next one hits. Now I'm hoping for one!

 

[midget-boyd91]

...and that's it, the UPS is now in place! We should be able to survive a power outage when next one hits. Now I'm hoping for one!

You do realize you'll need a generator to actually USE the computer in the event of a power outage, dont you?
---I know you meant the site would stay up for everyone else, but I couldn't NOT post that 

Good work, Thanks

 

[Mike Baker]

Good work Mike! Thanks a lot.

 

[geo]

Nice to hear that everything has come together.
Thanks Mike

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

You do realize you'll need a generator to actually USE the computer in the event of a power outage, dont you?
---I know you meant the site would stay up for everyone else, but I couldn't NOT post that 

Good work, Thanks

I have a laptop, and while my wireless will go out, I can still plug directly into the switch.

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Thunder and lightning here, I may get to test out the UPS already!

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

...And here's a (blurry) photo of it:

 

[George Wallace]

...And here's a (blurry) photo of it:

File too big for the Server?  Nice red "X" in a white box, anyway.  ;D

 

[Drummy]

Could it be OPSEC ?   

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Power just flickered... not enough to make it a decent test, but we may have a chance yet!

 

[p_imbeault]

Mike  can't you just flick the breaker?  ;D

 

[armyvern]

Mike  can't you just flick the breaker?  ;D

He and I often sit at the rear on the SYB I'll have you know.

I wouldn't want him to run a test by flicking off the breaker and having it NOT work ... if I were you!! A whole bunch of us may become mad at you were it to fail!! 

 

[Flip]

It would probably be a good idea to conduct a controlled test.....

I would love to see what happens to the ouput voltage during one
of those flickers.........


Bye the way, glad you've got 'er done! 

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Our first "field test" of the new UPS is now complete. We had a brief outage and the server/network connection stayed up the entire time. Success!

 

[Mike Baker]

So now when your 'out of town', and the site goes, it will come back again? ???