February 5, 2013
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I replaced a network switch in my environment in an attempt to narrow down some bandwidth issues and it now appears that my sites speeds have increased dramatically back to their original speeds. Further streamlining and improvements to come!
January 5, 2013
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Well opened up the web server to pull out the dual NIC cards and they were the PCI-x interface not what I wanted to go with the dual NIC card I had pulled out of another system. The reason I want dual NIC cards is that I tend to build systems in twos and with identical hardware and I want identical NICs in my two new storage appliances I am building.
January 5, 2013
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Taking down the dhoytt.com web site to remove some dual NIC’s (Network Interface Cards) that are not used but that I do need on another system I will be using for my storage network. Once I remove the NIC’s the site will be right back up quickly!
December 31, 2012
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Well I’m back up and have the major components of my site back up and working after moving items around in my racks and making room for new servers and equipment. I still have quite a bit to do so over the next few days I may interrupt site operations from time to time.
December 30, 2012
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The “dhoytt.com” site will be experiencing brief outages as equipment and servers are moved around tonight. I am moving new servers in place and moving switches, servers and furniture!
June 18, 2012
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Seems like the Compaq UPS battery backup is just gone as it has fried the voltage regulator and that was the issue so I’m moving the systems over to the Liebert UPS I have had letting the batteries get charged properly.
I’ll resuce the batteries out of the Compaq UPS later. I’ll have “Da Hoytt’s Online Universe” up and running again shortly!
June 14, 2012
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I will be taking down the systems to move them on the UPS battery backup systems that I placed updated new batteries in some time ago. I got so busy that I had overlooked placing the systems back on the UPS system after it was fully charged.
With the recent power outage the other day and the brief power spike this morning I looked over to see that my primary UPS system was up and running all green with no load begging to be put to use. I placed my monitoring system, backup web server/development system and the multiplayer system on as a test.
I also began testing out some of my other rack mount UPS battery backup systems that I will place replacement backup batteries in as needed. I may test the tower UPS battery backup systems I have as well.
Well in about 5 – 10 minutes I will be bringing down the environment and moving them on the primary UPS systems. This should not take long as I just need to plugin three PDU’s (power distribution units) into the back of the UPS after taking the systems down graefully.
June 12, 2012
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Had an area wide power outage and now back up and running after getting the systems back up. I do need to update the batteries in my UPS battery backup systems though!
June 11, 2012
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I replaced one of the routers in my environment as well as updated the fans on the multiplayer gaming server to improve cooling and air flow.
The router started suddenly causing issues in the environment last week in the middle of some other projects I had going. I reloaded the firmware since it was at the latest firmware as well as reloaded the settings from a config file I had saved but the router continued the erratic behavior of dropping packets.
I had an older router that just really has one LAN port not functioning with all other functions working fine so I uploaded the config file to that router and put that in place of the router that was dropping packets and so far everything looks just fine.
I think that I will have to consolidate my router operations at some point and I’m researching and evaluating multi-IP routers.
The multiplayer game server I reconnected some positional fans that hover over the CPU’s that I had previously connected but disconnected to connect the turbo fan heat sink combo I have now. This system has some serious air flow issues since I built it into a non-standard case with the motherboard layout its really not ideal. Ill soon be moving the multi-player server to another system an that will alleviate this issue.
May 9, 2012
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I was having issues creating an entry for the “Snakeice House of Beats” radio Blog and then went into MySQL on that server and discovered some issues with the MySQL tables that I then repaired. I went ahead and created that entry after the repairs and all looks fine as this post also shows since its shares the same MySQL instance and code base!
