You might notice this site is a little slow. There is, of course, a reason.
Stupidly high fuel bills.
It has come to pass that Gas and Electricity prices have literally gone through the roof and I am expecting my bill to more than double. Under these circumstances I cannot justify the operation of my 300 watt, “JARVIS 1” enterprise class server, running 24 hours a day.
Yet so much work will be lost without it.
So, my file server, network management, and weather station functions have been migrated to a “Raspberry Pi – Version 3B”. Attached to this is two, 1GB USB 3.0 portable hard drives. This machine is called “JARVIS_RPI_SERVER”.
All website functions have been moved to a second “Raspberry Pi – Version 3B”, this time with a single 500Mb USB 3.0 hard drive. This machine is “WEBSERVER_RPI”.
Both RPIs are running Ubuntu 20.04, which is exactly what “JARVIS 1” runs. However we are scaling back from a 3 GHz, 24 logical core processor, with 64 GB of RAM and 3.8 TB of disk space on 8 x 600 GB, SAS drives in RAID 5. To a 1.2 GHz, quad core ARM, with 1GB of RAM.
Preparation for this has been over several days. Migrating the WordPress sites took the most effort.
But this evening the websites were running on the new platform and just the small job of moving the weather station system over remained. And so it was done.
And then, with some sadness, I sat in front of the console to “JARVIS 1” and issued the command –
>sudo shutdown -P now
A few seconds later the gentle humming of the machine died away, leaving silence. The dual UPS units were then powered down also.
Sleep well big beast, your time will come again.
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🙁 Sad to hear this buddy. Hope better times come, yet not that confident that they will!!
No I am not confident that they will either. I think we need to adapt. When I can get one, a Raspberry Pi 4 will be taking the helm.