A warm welcome and good afternoon fellow friends and true readers. As planned during the last weeks our Server Hardware has been migrated to a real pc based hardware and as you will think immediately this migration is worth showing some details and pictures for sure! All is experimental and fun based tech geek stuff!
Initially hosting the website in US with a mirrored backup in Germany over the last years made a very stable and reliable hardware infrastructure which is ready to take the next step in expanding the daily technology article reviews, tests and benchmarks in our labratory in Stuttgart, Germany and Manila, Philippines.
The operating system is installed and runs on a SSD with 256 GB capacity. The system is able to run Linux and Windows in parallel dedicating specific CPU cores to an operating system.
System Hardware Configuration
The whole server computer uses single hardware components which have been hand selected and built together in an open Desktop case. This provides a fantastic tech geek optic and is very convenient to adjust the system easily.
| CPU: | Intel iCore 5 @ 4x 3Ghz |
| CPU Fan: | EKL Nordwand Rev. B |
| Motherboard: | Zotac H55 Mini ITX Board |
| RAM: | Corsair 4GB XMS2 |
| GPU: | ATI Radeon HD 4850 |
| GPU Fan: | Zalman VF900-LED |
| PSU: | Enermax 90+ |
| SSD: | OCZ Vertex 4 |
| HDD: | 4 x 1TB in Raid5 |
The major advantage of using the Raid 5 hardware system is to have redundancy and performance at the same time. Only 1 hard disk drive is used to store redundant data which can be used to rebuild the raid system when one hard disk crashes. This means that 3 out of 4 hdds can be used to store data.
With this experimental state running websites on own hardware at home, I want to study the pros and cons of hosting at home. Don’t worry, the whole website is mirrored anyway.
In case my home network and infrastructure has an issue, the mirrored backup sync will automatically do the job without any notice of an internet user. Will keep you updated on the experiment soon … Stay tuned on Tech Crates!
Tech Crates
Aug 19. 2013
Just to update on this experimental server hardware project. The new server seen on pictures above is running reliable cool. No downtime so far. Check the tech gadget toy Raspberry Pi guys!!!
Jomes
Aug 19. 2013
Nice project! Looks really awesome with that big LED cpu fan. Well Done..
Avinash
Aug 19. 2013
Wow fantastic design, Congrats to this project! Did you modify the graphics card with a better cooler fan?
Tech Crates
Aug 19. 2013
Thanks Avinash! Yes, the original Ati Radeon cooler was just a single slot design, super hot while running and very loud as well. So solution was definetely to replace the standard cooler by this Zalman VF900-LED
Andrea
Sep 06. 2013
This is a nice project but ATI Radeon HD 4850 on a server ?????
Tech Crates
Sep 06. 2013
Absolute correct statement, Andrea! The desktop GPU has been used for prototyping. In current production version, there is no need for a monitor at all 🙂 I was using a monitor only for installation
yathav
Jun 03. 2014
that’s pretty toys of a geek. thanks for showing the wonderful stuffs, really amazing to see those.
xray
Aug 29. 2015
wooow computer Lieutenant pieces before our eyes . High features available . Thank you