Ramblings

We are looking into building a new machine to act as our server. Gollum (the current machine) has done great recently, but we are looking at this more from a redundancy viewpoint than a strictly replacement one.

Here is a wishlist at newegg showing the parts that I have thrown together for it so far. Nothing is written in stone …

The idea is to build a new machine that stays here in Longview with me. It would become the primary machine once I have it set up and running. Gollum would then get moved to La Porte and sit on the cable connection there and handle secondary DNS, and failover everything (or at least as much as we can figure out)

Hopefully, if, for whatever reason, my connection here in Longview dies (thank you Longview Cable, you suck!) then Gollum in La Porte would be able to handle the load for a while. At a minimum I’d like Gollum (in a backup role) to be able to handle web, email, and dns. The web stuff doesn’t have to be bleeding edge current and the email would hopefully just queue up for ultimate delivery to the new machine (and maybe provide access to the email via POP3 or IMAP).

Any thoughts? I still need to really sit and think about how I want this to work. Oh, and John Spiegel has offered to host backups of actual files (nightly backups are really needed and I’m not doing it right now) and a slave DNS setup for my domains.