I'm looking into adding a cloud to one of my servers. Criteria: security accessible via Windoze, Android Mobile Devices, iPhones, iPads, Macs Preferably something living under one of the better repos, such as epel An active project doing updates and adding features. I don't suppose any of you have ideas for this? ;) -- John Hinton 877-777-1407 ext 502 http://www.ew3d.com Comprehensive Online Solutions
On 03/07/12 10:06 AM, John Hinton wrote:> I'm looking into adding a cloud to one of my servers.what does "a cloud" mean in this context ? to me, a cloud is a set of homogenous servers running distributed applications. classic cloud is google. the term has been degraded to also refer to a stack of servers running a virtualization platform such that the individual VMs don't care what hardware they are assigned to, classic example of a VM cloud is Amazon AWS. I don't understand how ANYTHING you do on a single server could be called 'cloudy'. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:06 PM, John Hinton <webmaster at ew3d.com> wrote:> I'm looking into adding a cloud to one of my servers. > > Criteria: > security > accessible via Windoze, Android Mobile Devices, iPhones, iPads, Macs > Preferably something living under one of the better repos, such as epel > An active project doing updates and adding features. > > I don't suppose any of you have ideas for this? ;)A cloud of what? Web services? That's still pretty generic. For personal access to a small number of things I just send them to my gmail account which works from anything with a browser. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
On Thursday, March 08, 2012 12:37:45 PM Scott Silva wrote:> on 3/8/2012 1:44 AM Jonathan Vomacka spake the following: > > ROFL > When you let all the magic smoke out of a server it will usually stop > working... ;)I try to procure ones with redundant magic smoke bottles. Seriously, though, I have had one server, an old Compaq ProLiant, that let loose a prodigious amount of smoke one day, and kept running. For a while, at least, until I could get it shutdown safely. It was a large resistor in one of the two power supplies that let go, and fortunately it didn't cause other failures. I've seen similar failures with some Cisco catalyst switches with redundant power; actually have smoke boiling out but kept on running. Now, on a scarier note, I have had redundant UPS battery packs give it up, and not even throw an alarm, but fill the room with the distinctive aroma of hydrogen sulfide. I have hydrogen alarms available, but has anyone seen an H2S alarm?
On Thursday, March 08, 2012 01:38:33 PM Scott Silva wrote:> on 3/8/2012 9:59 AM Lamar Owen spake the following: > > I have hydrogen alarms available, but has anyone seen an H2S alarm? > http://www.allgasdetectors.com/hydrogensulfidedetectors.shtml> http://www.generalmonitors.com/products/h2s_s4000th.htmlYou know, it was about thirty seconds after I hit send that I remembered a particular un-aired (but on the web) video segment from Mythbusters.... Thanks for the pointers! As we have four relatively large off-grid solar-powered telescope systems, having an H2S detector near the batteries would be a good thing, and I hadn't made the connection to the hand-held unit featured in said Mythbusters online minimyth.