My own little piece of the web.

Well, it's official. As of today I purchased my first two servers in what is to be a flurry of future purchases. I picked up a pair of DL360 Compaq servers on eBay for a pretty decent price and have my eye on several more. I'm quite excited by the idea of being able to host my own content. It's bad enough I'm mooching of Zoobiesoft, Yancy Wharton's web company, for my connection let alone using his disc space. Hopefully by the time I get set up I'll at least have DNS, web, database, mail, and FTP servers running. I'll also be on the lookout for a decent switch and KVM. Just to get going I may run some of the machines dual purpose, but eventually everything will have its own box. Gotta start somewhere though. If anyone close to the eastern shore of Maryland is looking to unload a server rack cheap, I'm in the market and will drive a little ways to pick up. The ones on eBay are either overpriced, missing the sides, or just plain too far away. I live down in farming country, not really the technology hub of the area. I'm off to enjoy my weekend now......and maybe get my hair color fixed.