[Ham-Linux] Anyone using Linux servers

[Bob McConnell]

Ken Sprouse wrote:
> The main system in my shack is running Ubuntu 10.04 desktop version and I
> find it much better than the Windows box it replaced.  I have been thinking
> about taking an older system or building a new one from scratch and making
> it a server where I could store all of my log files and documents related to
> ham radio.  Like manuals in PDF format for the rigs and schematics for home
> brew projects.  I realize that a full blown server may be over kill for this
> application but I also want to learn more about servers and networking as
> part of the process.  Just curious if anyone on the list is doing anything
> long the same lines?

Sorry this reply is so late. I've been out of town for a couple of days 
to see my daughter graduate from college.

I have several servers on my home network. They are a mix of Slackware 
and CentOS at the moment. Most of them are on older Dell hardware, in 
the P-3/733 MHz to Celeron/1 GHz range. Some are simply file servers 
(Samba), others have PostgreSQL and/or Apache. For the file servers, 
once the system is installed, I remove the optical drive and replace it 
with two more hard drives. This gives me a cheap terabyte storage box. 
These are a great place to try out various applications and configurations.

All of that is behind an even older Dell box running m0n0wall.

At work we use several clusters of CentOS server VMs for development, 
test and production. We run Apache and Postgres there as well. The 
production systems are on a managed hosting service. But the test and 
development systems are on local ESX hosts set up as close to the same 
configuration as we can make them, except for the load leveling, since 
we won't load them nearly as much as the production side.

Bob McConnell
N2SPP