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[Mine GO BOOM]

The new server is built and is running Xen very stable right now. I filled in the contracts for the data center, got my key card and biometric scans done (since I'm an employee of the parent company, I get full access to everything, anytime), and am waiting for my IP request forms to be completed and for them to tell me the four IPs I requested. The server is located out in Las Vegas, so expect your pings to be what any good West coast server would be since they are a tier one provider (aka, multiple multiple-gigabit connections). I get a dedicated minimum 1mbps with burstable upto 100mbps. They already said the connection I'm sharing with is pretty empty (only 6 other servers), so I'm expecting it to always max out everyone's connection (even those Finns).

System Specs:

• Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
  
• 3x 300GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10
  
• 4x 1GB Wintec 800MHz DDR AmpX
  
• Some shitty 1U case
  
• Some good 300W power supply
  
• Spare 16x CD-RW slimdrive

The computer will be called Saturn as a whole, with each Virtual Machine being named after different moons of Saturn.

• Calypso - Dom0, the main OS booted into that controls Xen and all sub-machines. Running Gentoo 2.6.18-xen kernel.
  
• Telesto - Internal firewall. For VMs that don't need their own dedicated IP, will forward ports to specific machines like anyone's router at home. Running m0n0wall v1.231, though I may switch to just running a stripped Gentoo with iptables.
  
• Titan - Apache and MySQL. The main beast of the VMs. The forums and anything you guys will connect to will be through this. Using Gentoo, sharing whatever kernel the host is using (2.6.18-xen).
  
• Janus - Exim4. Since emails are a good source of constant spam/viruses, figured it would be in my best interest to just give it its own VM instance.

There are others planned, but I'll leave that for later dates and surprises.

[CypherJF]

Very sweet!
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[Doc Flabby]

very nice
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[BDwinsAlt]

When you mentioned Calypso it reminded me of the Odyssey.

Great English class but after that we read To Kill a Mockingboird (which I hated).

Ahh the memories.

[CypherJF]

Calypso reminded me of Pirates 3.

[Blocks]

If you don't mind me asking, how much did that whole setup run you? (poker table excluded)

[Mine GO BOOM]

[Cyan~Fire]

Mmmm that looks yummy.

The pics are nice but I can tell you just took them to show off your poker table.
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[Mine GO BOOM]

[L.C.]

That server looks beautiful. Mind taking some exterior photos?

[Solo Ace]

Yeah take a picture of the regular plugs and the plain front of the server!

[BDwinsAlt]

Take a pic of solo so we can photoshop it and laugh.

[Solo Ace]

I'm actually pretty sad right now, please do that later.

Besides, nice setup of VMs, didn't read that before. I wanted to do such things too, just had no idea how.

[Cerium]

That poker setup looks familiar. You didn't happen to take those pictures at my house, did you?
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[BDwinsAlt]

Girl issues?

[Mine GO BOOM]

The picture we took of the back had bad lighting, so you can't really see much and had to adjust the hell out of the image. But you can see my hackish job of getting a serial port installed.

Got my IPs assigned today (server2a.mineplowers.com -> server2e.mineplowers.com), but don't have the whole internal networking setup so the server is still at my house. And with how I feel right now, will probably be here until Friday.

I plan on making a personal Wiki which I'll keep a written record of how i setup the system, along with a lot of other personal tutorials I've done for myself. In it, I'll have pretty much every command I used to setup the server. The bitch of the whole thing was having Xen boot off a LVM running on a software RAID5. Oh boy, was that init ramdisk a bitch to reverse engineer and figure out what the hell was fucking up.

[Solo Ace]

What? No, my mother died last saturday.

How do you feel right now, MGB?

[Cerium]

What'd you need the serial port for?

[Doc Flabby]

[Cerium]

What??

[Mine GO BOOM]

Server was successfully installed. Now to clone everything on the unixshell machine to the new Saturn machine.

If you want to see your ping times to Las Vegas, ping server2c.mineplowers.com (titan.mineplowers.com). That is the virtual machine running under the Saturn server, which is where the forums will live.

For my own usage, these are the ports the data center filters:

Code: Show/Hide 25/tcp    filtered smtp 135/tcp   filtered msrpc 136/tcp   filtered profile 137/tcp   filtered netbios-ns 138/tcp   filtered netbios-dgm 139/tcp   filtered netbios-ssn 445/tcp   filtered microsoft-ds 27374/tcp filtered subseven

[BDwinsAlt]

My pings

Code: Show/Hide brad@brad-laptop:~$ ping -c 10 titan.mineplowers.com PING server2c.mineplowers.com (208.67.185.188) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from unmapped.marquisnet.com (208.67.185.188): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=81.8 ms 64 bytes from unmapped.marquisnet.com (208.67.185.188): icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=83.9 ms 64 bytes from unmapped.marquisnet.com (208.67.185.188): icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=111 ms 64 bytes from unmapped.marquisnet.com (208.67.185.188): icmp_seq=4 ttl=52 time=76.8 ms 64 bytes from unmapped.marquisnet.com (208.67.185.188): icmp_seq=5 ttl=52 time=97.0 ms 64 bytes from unmapped.marquisnet.com (208.67.185.188): icmp_seq=6 ttl=52 time=79.9 ms 64 bytes from unmapped.marquisnet.com (208.67.185.188): icmp_seq=7 ttl=52 time=79.9 ms 64 bytes from unmapped.marquisnet.com (208.67.185.188): icmp_seq=8 ttl=52 time=80.2 ms 64 bytes from unmapped.marquisnet.com (208.67.185.188): icmp_seq=9 ttl=52 time=79.9 ms 64 bytes from unmapped.marquisnet.com (208.67.185.188): icmp_seq=10 ttl=52 time=75.9 ms --- server2c.mineplowers.com ping statistics --- 10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 8995ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 75.996/84.787/111.962/10.627 ms

[CypherJF]

Code: Show/Hide Pinging server2c.mineplowers.com [208.67.185.188] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 208.67.185.188: bytes=32 time=115ms TTL=48 Reply from 208.67.185.188: bytes=32 time=163ms TTL=48 Reply from 208.67.185.188: bytes=32 time=104ms TTL=48 Reply from 208.67.185.188: bytes=32 time=115ms TTL=48 Reply from 208.67.185.188: bytes=32 time=134ms TTL=48 Reply from 208.67.185.188: bytes=32 time=127ms TTL=48 Reply from 208.67.185.188: bytes=32 time=158ms TTL=48 Reply from 208.67.185.188: bytes=32 time=171ms TTL=48 Reply from 208.67.185.188: bytes=32 time=124ms TTL=48 Reply from 208.67.185.188: bytes=32 time=114ms TTL=48 Ping statistics for 208.67.185.188:     Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:     Minimum = 104ms, Maximum = 171ms, Average = 132ms

[Samapico]

Code: Show/Hide Envoi d'une requête 'ping' sur server2c.mineplowers.com [208.67.185.188] avec 32 octets de données : Réponse de 208.67.185.188 : octets=32 temps=153 ms TTL=52 Réponse de 208.67.185.188 : octets=32 temps=144 ms TTL=53 Réponse de 208.67.185.188 : octets=32 temps=162 ms TTL=53 Réponse de 208.67.185.188 : octets=32 temps=201 ms TTL=52 Réponse de 208.67.185.188 : octets=32 temps=160 ms TTL=53 Réponse de 208.67.185.188 : octets=32 temps=161 ms TTL=52 Réponse de 208.67.185.188 : octets=32 temps=139 ms TTL=52 Réponse de 208.67.185.188 : octets=32 temps=183 ms TTL=53 Réponse de 208.67.185.188 : octets=32 temps=163 ms TTL=52 Réponse de 208.67.185.188 : octets=32 temps=138 ms TTL=53 Statistiques Ping pour 208.67.185.188:     Paquets : envoyés = 10, reçus = 10, perdus = 0 (perte 0%), Durée approximative des boucles en millisecondes :     Minimum = 138ms, Maximum = 201ms, Moyenne = 160ms

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[Blocks]

From my server:

Code: Show/Hide blocks@subspace:~$ ping -c 8 titan.mineplowers.com PING server2c.mineplowers.com (208.67.185.188) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from unmapped.marquisnet.com (208.67.185.188): icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=7.32 ms 64 bytes from unmapped.marquisnet.com (208.67.185.188): icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=7.27 ms 64 bytes from unmapped.marquisnet.com (208.67.185.188): icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=7.20 ms 64 bytes from unmapped.marquisnet.com (208.67.185.188): icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=7.04 ms 64 bytes from unmapped.marquisnet.com (208.67.185.188): icmp_seq=5 ttl=58 time=8.35 ms 64 bytes from unmapped.marquisnet.com (208.67.185.188): icmp_seq=6 ttl=58 time=9.08 ms 64 bytes from unmapped.marquisnet.com (208.67.185.188): icmp_seq=7 ttl=58 time=8.22 ms 64 bytes from unmapped.marquisnet.com (208.67.185.188): icmp_seq=8 ttl=58 time=7.06 ms --- server2c.mineplowers.com ping statistics --- 8 packets transmitted, 8 received, 0% packet loss, time 6996ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 7.047/7.697/9.089/0.715 ms

And from my home connection:

Code: Show/Hide C:\Users\********>ping -n 8 -l 64 titan.mineplowers.com Pinging server2c.mineplowers.com [208.67.185.188] with 64 bytes of data: Reply from 208.67.185.188: bytes=64 time=53ms TTL=52 Reply from 208.67.185.188: bytes=64 time=55ms TTL=52 Reply from 208.67.185.188: bytes=64 time=52ms TTL=52 Reply from 208.67.185.188: bytes=64 time=71ms TTL=52 Reply from 208.67.185.188: bytes=64 time=62ms TTL=52 Reply from 208.67.185.188: bytes=64 time=51ms TTL=52 Reply from 208.67.185.188: bytes=64 time=61ms TTL=52 Reply from 208.67.185.188: bytes=64 time=53ms TTL=52 Ping statistics for 208.67.185.188:     Packets: Sent = 8, Received = 8, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:     Minimum = 51ms, Maximum = 71ms, Average = 57ms

Both computers are in southern California.