You might notice this site is a little slow. There is, of course, a reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stupidly high fuel bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet so much work will be lost without it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Preparation for this has been over several days. Migrating the WordPress sites took the most effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then, with some sadness, I sat in front of the console to “JARVIS 1” and issued the command –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
>sudo shutdown -P now<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A few seconds later the gentle humming of the machine died away, leaving silence. The dual UPS units were then powered down also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sleep well big beast, your time will come again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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