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My Server Closet

I'm going to be honest and say that your server closet is an absolute disaster!

Also, you posted only pictures with no text. What do you use all this for? Some specs?

Most of the posts on this forum are pretty lame like this one.

Pfft. Your set up looks like my wife's office. What are you showing that's so special besides nothing? That's my point. Some of the people here have got some great things to show as far as servers go but few match up to desktopped.com (and even they have a lot of lame showings).

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Cause I didnt feel like taking anymore pics at that time. and sorry to everyone that I dont have thounsands of dollars to spend on racks and such. and in my area Not much of a good connection to need something big and good anyways its costing me 125 dollars a month for 7mb down and 2mb up. so not so cheap and thats the best that can be gotten where I live.

Thanks for posting the pictures! Everyone has to start somewhere. I remember my 1st setup, looked terrible lol. Over the years ive been able to get it all rack mounted and cables ran in the walls to a central closet with a patch panel. Check my profile for a video of it. The rack cost me $90 plus shipping, so not to bad.
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When I want to look at other peoples setups I usually hope they have a nice home rack or two of servers,some of the setups I've seen on here downright suck. I remember seeing a website called server pron or something like that,had awesome home rack setups. I believe Oxygen who is a member here had a pretty nice home setup if I remember correctly.

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reply to howardfine
Thanks for that link.

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Look, it doesn't take 1,000s of $$$ to make a neat server stack. Vacuum that floor, throw away or move those cardboard boxes (fire hazard!) and, what is that, a bike tire? Get those drives bolted into the server cases properly. For a just a few bucks (check eBay) you can replace those terminally kinked ethernet cables (free in the Netgear box, right?) with some that actually have some EMI resistance. And my personal preference would be for a server login screen that looks more professional--no photo wallpaper, etc.

Then, when you make your post just give a quick description of your setup. What does it do? (Just for your personal training? That's fine--that's called a "lab.") What are the specs on the boxes (clock speeds, amt of memory, OS version, HD space)? What kind of WAN connectivity do you have (you talked about this in your response)? Do you support any users? Like family members or . . . ?

Thanks for sharing--I wouldn't have criticized you out of hand, but it just needs to be noted that you don't need big bucks to run a tight ship.

Congrats on what you've accomplished so far. Now take it to the next level!

Joey

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Well unlike everyone else who wants to whine and moan (Bad week guys?). When I saw the pictures I had a little smile remembering my first server closet setup.

There's a reason this is the home server setup forum and not the high end mega bucks one. Sure it doesn't take thousands to make a nice setup almost all my gear is donated high end equipment. But not everyone has the time or is looking to do that. Some people just toss it together and it serves their purpose.

So instead of attacking him how about we encourage him?
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I enjoy all the photos posted here. Thanks for sharing.

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Classic IBM clicky Model M keyboard, good for typing or battling in hand to hand combat.
What's the date code? (if the sticker is still intact it should be printed on the underside) I think the earliest one I have is circa 1996, still works.

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You actually enabled Themes service on Server 2k3?

If you have an accredited college e-mail you can get 2003 and 2008 R2 for free from Microsoft, for personal use only obviously.

»www.dreamspark.com/default.aspx

reply to TomS_
Well actualy it is legal:)

I bought an older Dell Poweredge 2400 Server. It came with a 50 License Windows 2003 Server Disk.

And also I had a teacher 2 years ago Gave me Windows Server 2008, He got it from that Microsoft Deal