If you were silly enough to try to use the system at 3 am (ET), you found it was down.<\/p>\n
The primary reason was that installed a battery backup that hopefully will keep the system from crashing from momentary outages, and allow for a graceful shutdown if the outage looks more widespread. The system is running from normal residential power, not a conditioned data center.<\/p>\n
The second reason was to think about what to do about 1) The end of XP support and 2) the fact that I’m so far behind in Fedora updates that the system realistically can’t be made current without extreme risk that it might fail and never come back.<\/p>\n
I also bought a 2 TB USB 3.0 drive at Office Max for around $100 – currently it is serving as the backup of XP Machine so I can restore the system if some unrecoverable malicious thing makes its way on the XP box.<\/p>\n
Underneath Fedora there is the copy of WIndows 7 that I’m basically never used – I booted it up to see if it should become my personal machine and switch the web server to the older XP machine. I painted myself in a corner as I gave Fedora all the disk space, and Windows 7 immediately ran out of disk space when I tried to install the 153 Windows updates \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
So generally my plan is to install a current version of Linux (probably Ubuntu) on the 2 TB drive and make it a USB bootable linux box that is big enough to handle everything datawise on a single partition. I’ll run that in parallel with the current web server, then some day in the future, move the router port forwarding to the old XP box running with the new disk drive, then make the eMachine WIn7 box my personal machine. Once the web server is self contained entirely on a single drive, ti doesn’t really matter which PC the USB drive is connected to.<\/p>\n
The reason I said Ubuntu is I read that’s the distro that Google uses as the basis of their “stuff” – and it is more likely to be kept current and reasonable than Fedora. Keeping “obsolete” versions of the upgrade packages so I could update to each version one at a time would have made it an easy choice to stay on Fedora, but there is now a chasm I’m not wiling to jump over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you were silly enough to try to use the system at 3 am (ET), you found it was down. The primary reason was that installed a battery backup that hopefully will keep the system from crashing from momentary outages, … Continue reading