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paulmataruso

@comcast.net

My server setup

This is my little setup in my parents basement, I have been building it up for the past two years.

Here are the links to the pictures, they are really high res, so I diden't want to post them.

»dothackinc.com/server-rack-1.jpg

»dothackinc.com/server-rack-2.jpg

DaMaGeINC
The Lan Man
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Greenville, SC
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Re: My server setup

How about posting them to the site. I dont like links. Might be some kind of jpg virus or script. Never know.

paulmataruso

@comcast.net

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Ok here you go

DaMaGeINC
The Lan Man
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Greenville, SC
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Re: My server setup

wow whats all that for?

paulmataruso

@comcast.net

Re: My server setup

I host website for local bands and non-profit places, like the library, and my school. Some of it is for SQL, the library, outsources there SQL server to my place, so all there data for checking books in and out can be somewhere safe, and they don't have to manage it. But mostly websites are what i host. And some of it is just for tinkering around with. I started really getting into website hosting when I turned 15, I host a lot of private game servers for kid in my school

DaMaGeINC
The Lan Man
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Re: My server setup

And what type of connection do you have running? Whos pays for all of this?

PS. It looks like an army of kids with crayons tore that place up.

paulmataruso

@comcast.net

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I have one comcast residential connection, one DSL connection from NHVT.net, and a fiber optic connection to NHVT, which is about 400 yards from my house. I attached pics of the fiber splice case. My dad is really good friends with the owner of NHVT. So he ran some fiber over to my place, and in return, some of his servers are in my house.

paulmataruso

@comcast.net

Re: My server setup

Forgot to add something..

I don't pay all that much, the server racks where surplus, routers from ebay and from the tech collage, when they re did there entire network, servers are mostly secondhand some from ebay, others from ebay.

DaMaGeINC
The Lan Man
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join:2002-06-08
Greenville, SC
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Speeds?

paulmataruso

@comcast.net

Re: My server setup

20 mb down, 25 mb up, for fiber, comcast is 10 mbdown, ~800 kbps up, nhvt dsl is 3 mb down, 1 mb up
wolfman2g1

join:2008-04-28
Brooklyn, NY
How much do you pay for electricity? i really want to build a server lab but i am scared to death of what my power bill will look like

paulmataruso

@comcast.net

Re: My server setup

the power bill is around 170.00 USD total for the entire house, but i am not sure how much the servers coast each or together.

Prismatic
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join:2003-04-21
El Cajon, CA

Re: My server setup

Nice.

scrummie02
Bentley
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join:2004-04-16
Arlington, VA

virtual servers my man. Buy a beefy box with a quad core and some disk space and RAM...your set. I run dev web servers, icecast for a personal radio me and my family listen to, test XP client and so on...with one server.

VMWare is the way to go.
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Silentwolf
Vaprotan
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join:2002-07-03
Kingsport, TN
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Nice setup you have there. Neat domain name you have those images at as well.

paulmatauros

@comcast.net

Re: My server setup

Thank you, Yeah, some of those pics on my site, are duplicates. But I am always changing and taking/removing stuff that it is always different. My website is mostly for my high voltage stuff.

Silentwolf
Vaprotan
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join:2002-07-03
Kingsport, TN
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Re: My server setup

I saw some of your TCs you made, nice work there. The new pole pig you picked up looks like it's in some excellent condition also.

Good job all around.

paulmataruso

@comcast.net

Re: My server setup

The pole pig was in great condition, it good do with a little touch up work, and maybe so de-rusting, but besides that it is as good as new.
bshelly
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join:2002-02-17
Schaumburg, IL
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Do you have a sump pump and a battery backup pump if you ever get a lot of water?

That would personally be my biggest concern. Otherwise, you have a very cool setup

paulmataruso

@comcast.net

Re: My server setup

No, I dont have a sump pump at all, I am takeing the already very low risk of water damage. We live on top of a hill, and all the water goes around us. Plus the basement has never flooded for the lifetime of the house, as i know it.
bshelly
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Schaumburg, IL
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Re: My server setup

That's good I am jealous of the bandwidth. Enjoy!
annoyingrob

join:2007-03-27
Calgary, AB
Do you know how much that fiber line would normally run per month to lease?

mike12806
Premium
join:2007-08-28
Milton, MA
Haha, one of the fiber runs coming out of that splice says "Comcast Fiber" on it! Are you a beta Comcast FTTH customer??!?!?
Mike_343
I Need Speed.

join:2001-07-05
Dyer, IN

Re: My server setup

ya it does say comcast on it? is the op pulling a fast one on us?

paulmataruso

@comcast.net

Re: My server setup

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pulling out a fiber node
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The roll of fiber
The fiber is indeed from comcast, i got it from a dumpster by one of there headends. I attached a pic of me in the same dumpster i got the fiber from.

jwersan
R.I.P. Mom, Brian, Ziggy, and Max.
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join:2004-12-20
Port Jefferson Station, NY
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Re: My server setup

Dumpster diving at its best!!!

Silentwolf
Vaprotan
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Kingsport, TN
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The Comcast fiber could just be extra that a contractor or such had left over that they used.

paulmataruso

@comcast.net

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Oh and, i just got this yesterday, from a comcast hub site, about 7 miles from my place. there were 3 of them, but i only had room for one of them at the time.

mike12806
Premium
join:2007-08-28
Milton, MA
Never knew Comcast had so much equipment lying around in rural areas??

paulmataruso

@comcast.net

Re: My server setup

Yeah it is kinda weird, the amount of stuff they just chuck away, and you wonder why our cable bills are high...

mike12806
Premium
join:2007-08-28
Milton, MA
Why do you have a comcast residential conneciton if you have fiber anyways?

paulmataruso

@comcast.net

Re: My server setup

It comes with the comcast triple play, so i think to get that deal we need to hold on to it, ether way it helps, i have the three internet connections load balanced, via an F5 Big-IP Appliance. The fiber connection handels all the web servers, and the dsl connection does game servers + sql servers + vpn + ftp etc. and the comcast connection isent set to allow or deny any traffic.
erikthebean

join:2007-06-25
Manchester, NH
Dude i love the setup its nice to know im not the only one tinkering around my servers....im only 22 and at 15 i wish i had a fiber line running into my home...dam i wish i had one now

paulmataruso

join:2008-07-12
Newport, NH
Thanks, i dont know to many other people at my school at least, that are into networking and what not. i am 16 now actully, did i put 15?
erikthebean

join:2007-06-25
Manchester, NH
·Comcast
·MV Communications,..
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·Callcentric

I gota ask ya i actually used to work for comcast ..... not the greatest time of my life but what did you do with that fiber node??? i know it uses squarewave power but u should convert some of that extra fiber into coax lol theirs a weekend project right there

paulmataruso

join:2008-07-12
Newport, NH
·Comcast

Re: My server setup

i have the power supply for the node(big black thing, 90volt output? really heavy, looks like it goes in a rack or box or something), it is sitting on my work bench right now, and i have some of those fiber modulator things(big Grey, rack mountable), that convert the video/audio into the fiber optic signal(i think it uses some type of DWDM to encode the signal). Then from the node, i have some of that hard line stuff, that goes to a line extender, which is like a big silver thing just like the node, forcept smaller. then from there more hard line, then to an 8 port Motorola tap, then on the tap there is a terminator thing on the output side. and connected to the tap, i have a tv, set to channel 10, and i am not sure how to get the audio/video thing to come up on the tv, and i am pretty sure the node works. BTW, the input for the fiber modulator thing is an xbox, lol.
erikthebean

join:2007-06-25
Manchester, NH
well ..humm ....all you can really do with the node is convert the fiber to coax....btw did NHVT run the fiber from the street for you if so thats cool

paulmataruso

join:2008-07-12
Newport, NH
·Comcast

Re: My server setup

nah, it is running out behind my house then over along the stone wall, they are like right next to me, so it is just running thought some of that Orange fiber protector tube, the fiber is pretty tough, so i am not really worryed about anything happeing to it, it is udnerground like 7 inches up until the stone wall, then it surfaces, for a couple yards, then goes back under to there place, then surfaces then thougth a little hold in the cement on the side of the house.
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Newport School District
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paulmataruso

join:2008-07-12
Newport, NH
·Comcast

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Got some new stuff,

Compaq ML370 1U server
Cisco IAD 2400
and Some other cisco stuff on the relay rack

will

@comcast.net
Want to colocate a box for me?

SlickEnW
Premium
join:2003-01-21
Seattle, WA
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·Comcast


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But yea, virtualize

Just get a nice HP with 8 cores and max ram (72 gb), fibre chan storage , and vm ware's ESX + an additional server box for virtual center and physical to virtual tasks (so you don't have to reconfigure everything).

Heck you can do it in one rack

cypherstream
Looking forward to the future of things.
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join:2004-12-02
Reading, PA
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What brand node and line extender did you get? Does it say the model number and/or bandwidth? 750 MHz, 870 MHz, etc..?

paulmataruso

join:2008-07-12
Newport, NH

Re: My server setup

Yeah its made by c-core, uhm i think is 850 Mhz, im not sure tho, It has 8 ports, four on each side, 7 RF outputs, and 1 fiber input.

cypherstream
Looking forward to the future of things.
Premium,MVM
join:2004-12-02
Reading, PA
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Re: My server setup

Wow, good find! Wish my local Comcast had cool stuff like that sitting around for me to play with. Only thing I saw there was a bent up antenna!

Cool setup, dumpster diving FTW!
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