I am so excited. A few months ago, I purchased two use Dell PowerEdge 2950 rack mount servers. They are pretty sweet: Dual Xeon processors, 8 gig or RAM, dual power supplies, dual GB network ports, etc. Unfortunately, I have not had much time to work on them. I desperately needed to due to the performance of my site. But, I finally found a little extra time and it has been well worth it.
I had to first update the bios. The fans exhibited a jet engine noise, indicative of this server. Now, the noise is much more acceptable. I loaded Windows Server 2012 and updated all the patches. I loaded the role so I could create virtual machines of which I created a single instance of a web server. I copied the files from my existing server and loaded them to my local network storage and then configured my new server to serve the files. Just one problem. Charter apparently blocks port 80. So, I configured my old server which is still up an running remotely to forward requests to my new IP address on a different port.
Result? It works great! The response time is SOOOOO much better. This is still a work in progress. I need to bump the RAM, load more VMs, allow students to access VMs remotely, allow students to create web sites on my server for my e-commerce class, and so on. But, this is finally starting to come together nicely.
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