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Looks a bit shonky to me, but if it works, good for you. I worked for a design agency back in about 2004 which had the same sort of infrastructure internally.
by gouranga 14y ago
Looks a bit shonky to me, but if it works, good for you.
I worked for a design agency back in about 2004 which had the same sort of infrastructure internally. They had a cheap desktop Exchange 2003 box, cheap desktop Fileserver, cheap desktop SQL + App server, cheap desktop mp3 server, big old DLT drive, SDSL router, switch, a KVM, cranky old monitor, keyboard, mouse, mounds of cable, a well underpowered UPS and a garfield all wedged under a couple of tables.
Some muppet knocked over a coffee cup and it spilled through the gap between the tables into the monitor causing a cascade failure and a small fire which melted pretty much everything under the table. It took the company out for 2 weeks until Dell could ship new kit in.
There is a reason to do it properly IMHO (and experience!)
- khadim 14y agoWe will avoid coffee at our garage ;) We tried to control cost by assembling stuff, using commodity hardware etc. But did not use low quality stuff. Our UPS is from Eaton, Server components are standard ones like Seagate, Intel, Router/Switches from Cisco, D-link.
- gouranga 14y agoIn that case I withdraw my comment :) Best of luck - sounds good.