The end of the road
31/07/08 19:33 Filed in: Internet
Yesterday was the end of the road for an old freind
on the internet.
Okay so it was only the end of the road for my
router, but still this little box has been sitting on
the end on of my internet connection for at least 5
years but probably more.
The box, an intY (which is now called an Exoserver) was a perk of working for intY LTD. The intY box is a router/firewall/mail and web filter/VPN end point appliance. When I was made redundant from my job there wI was aloud to keep the box, since it was very old and me continuing with the service effectively cost the company nothing at all. I did have to give somethings however, the mail on my domains needed moving away from the MailDefender service.
Anyway I kept, with the companies full blessing the intY box. Here’s a picture of it in it’s little hole.
Yes it’s a very small space and it shares it with a switch and no less than 3 Microsoft keyboards (they all still work, I just like the slimline apple keyboard at the moment). And yes that is about half an inch of dust on top of it!
Anyway, I had always planed to decommission this box, it was getting old and now that my mail didn’t go through MailDefender there was no need for me to have a mail server anymore. And just how old was this box?
Well I have had it for about 5 years and before that it had been at a customers site for at least another 2 years before than. I don’t know when this box was new, but there is an electrical test sticker on it from January 2001. This little 330mhz box with it’s 10 gig hard drive and 128 megs of ram has been running basically non-stop for probably 6 years. I know in the time I’ve had it it has only been off for maybe 4 weeks in total. And it’s not like it’s special sever grade hardware, it a normal slimline desktop case.
I was getting to sound very rough towards the end (but not as rough as the fans in the switch sounds currently) and in that tiny space it got very warm, It was the noise and the power consumption that persuaded me in the end to turn it off. I was going to do that this weekend, but...
Well intY finally closed down my account and since this box was one of the older managed service boxes, not like the newer unmanaged boxes, my intY box was shut down too. I could have got it rebuilt as an Exoserver, but as I said it was going anyway.
It’s kind of sad to see the old box go, but things do move on and I’ve now replaced it with a small, quiet, low power linksys router. I will post some pictures of this new set up, when I’ve completed it, but right now it’s even more of a birds nest that the old set up!
The box, an intY (which is now called an Exoserver) was a perk of working for intY LTD. The intY box is a router/firewall/mail and web filter/VPN end point appliance. When I was made redundant from my job there wI was aloud to keep the box, since it was very old and me continuing with the service effectively cost the company nothing at all. I did have to give somethings however, the mail on my domains needed moving away from the MailDefender service.
Anyway I kept, with the companies full blessing the intY box. Here’s a picture of it in it’s little hole.
Yes it’s a very small space and it shares it with a switch and no less than 3 Microsoft keyboards (they all still work, I just like the slimline apple keyboard at the moment). And yes that is about half an inch of dust on top of it!
Anyway, I had always planed to decommission this box, it was getting old and now that my mail didn’t go through MailDefender there was no need for me to have a mail server anymore. And just how old was this box?
Well I have had it for about 5 years and before that it had been at a customers site for at least another 2 years before than. I don’t know when this box was new, but there is an electrical test sticker on it from January 2001. This little 330mhz box with it’s 10 gig hard drive and 128 megs of ram has been running basically non-stop for probably 6 years. I know in the time I’ve had it it has only been off for maybe 4 weeks in total. And it’s not like it’s special sever grade hardware, it a normal slimline desktop case.
I was getting to sound very rough towards the end (but not as rough as the fans in the switch sounds currently) and in that tiny space it got very warm, It was the noise and the power consumption that persuaded me in the end to turn it off. I was going to do that this weekend, but...
Well intY finally closed down my account and since this box was one of the older managed service boxes, not like the newer unmanaged boxes, my intY box was shut down too. I could have got it rebuilt as an Exoserver, but as I said it was going anyway.
It’s kind of sad to see the old box go, but things do move on and I’ve now replaced it with a small, quiet, low power linksys router. I will post some pictures of this new set up, when I’ve completed it, but right now it’s even more of a birds nest that the old set up!
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