This Guy Lives alone

[Stringent]

http://smorris.uber-geek.net/lab.htm

Home lab?!?

[Guy]

ouch Id hate to see his electricity bill!

[Theo]

ouch Id hate to see his electricity bill!

Or his complexion!

[Mossy]

Why?

[Funkstar]

As noted above, I would not recommend this path to anyone unless you have a good amount of business to drive it! All of the equipment here is used for testing and lab purposes, but easily serves as Proof of Concept lab for many consulting clients of mine.

Sounds like a fairly big time consultant etc.

I think that probably justifies the equipment (or at least some of it).

I used to read the John Honeyball articles in PCPro religiously when i bought that, he has some insame amount of equipment in his server rooms at home. So this isn't unusual for consultants that run their businesses from home.

[dave87]

The question is, what sort of internet access does he have if he's running a DNS server for an ISP?

[Vroomparrot]

Hmm.. That's some nice cabli'n

[j.o.s.h.1408]

umm like someone said here, WHY?

[Funkstar]

Just have a look at the guys resume
http://smorris.uber-geek.net/

and then there is his back story
http://smorris.uber-geek.net/story.htm

Sounds like a clever and very busy bloke

[pollaxe]

I used to read the John Honeyball articles in PCPro religiously when i bought that, he has some insame amount of equipment in his server rooms at home. So this isn't unusual for consultants that run their businesses from home.

He's just set up some uber Apples in the latest issue (16 gb RAM and 8 cores or somesuch - I've not actually read it yet!)

[moogle]

could do a lot of folding with those babies, or run a nice dedicated hosting service if he had the connection.

[schmunk]

Re: This guy lives alone


Not if you read his resume - wife and two sprogs apparently.


No, I don't believe it myself, either...

[Moby-Dick]

could do a lot of folding with those babies, or run a nice dedicated hosting service if he had the connection.

its mostly network kit - he'd need more servers

[moogle]

its mostly network kit - he'd need more servers

i see whats looks to be 4 dell poweredge servers in the middle to the left in the first picture

[Funkstar]

Apparently he has an NxT-1, which means he could have up to 4x T1 lines. Which equates to 6Mbps of dedicated bandwidth.

Servers include:
Cobalt/Sun RAQ2+ for Web and DNS Services
Cobalt/Sun RAQ2+ for Web and DNS Services (yup, two)
Dell PowerEdge 650 (2 x P4-2GHz, 4GB RAM) running as new Web Server for clients
Dell PowerEdge 650 (2 x P4-2GHz, 2GB RAM) running as primary DNS for clients
Dell PowerEdge MC1655 Blade Server running a variety of applications such as my e-mail services, a Certificate
Dell PowerEdge MC1655 Blade Server running a variety of applications
IOMega NAS - 320 GB Network Attached Storage
IOMega NAS - 500 GB Network Attached Storage

There are a few other Dell boxes, but they are listed as "Juniper Networks Dell Olive testing platform" which to me sounds like servers being used to emulate the software inside high end networking equipment etc.

[Moby-Dick]

i see whats looks to be 4 dell poweredge servers in the middle to the left in the first picture

Not enough