by wwarren | Oct 26, 2010 | Linux, NPO's, Open Source, Radio
I have been doing IT work as a volunteer for a local radio station WTHU for a few years now. Slowly but surely we have been moving along the technology track int he right direction. We have a stout server in wash state that handles our streaming. The costs for this...
by wwarren | Oct 14, 2010 | Church, Linux, NPO's, Open Source
Well i got the servers in and really didn’t want to wait for the 12u rack…mainly because it’s not int he budget right now. I took one of the servers and have installed untangle on it. I now have 4 network cards in the thing. One is red(internet),...
by wwarren | Sep 15, 2010 | Church, Linux, NPO's, Open Source
I just need to get the final list of current mailboxses and get the DNS switched over. Staff meeting this Monday to see if they’ll give the green light. I have found several extensions(called zimlets) that really extend the featureset of the Zimbra platform....
by wwarren | Sep 15, 2010 | Church, Linux, Microsoft, NPO's, Open Source
Well I have gotten one of the donated servers fired up. It’s a dual Xeon 2.0 GHZ HT with dual 36 gig 10 SCSI hdd’s in raid 1. This is now running Untangle as the firewall. This frees up the Dell server (which is a Xeon 3.0 GHZ HT 2 gig dual 250 gigs...
by wwarren | Aug 15, 2010 | Church, Hardware, Intel, Linux, NPO's, Open Source
You can read about the donation here. I have three IBM x335’s on the way with dual p-4 xeon 2.8 ghz cpu’s, dual 36 gig 10k rpm SCSI drives with hardware raid 1, 4 gigs of ram, all the cables needed including ILO, and rails. All for the cost of shipping....
by wwarren | Jul 29, 2010 | Cloud Computing, Open Source
After some internal testing and research i can honestly say that virtualization may not be the best solution except for larger deployments. For the same money(or less) than either upgrading one server to be able to host multiple vm’s or the purchase of a new...
