Geekido

It’s time to replace the aging Linux server that is the latest in a long line of servers that have been storing our mail at home for the last decade. It’s gone through several upgrades, but the general architecture has been the same — a low-end tower or mini-tower computer running some form of Linux. For a long time, the OS and configurations have lived on one hard drive, with the mail store living on another physical drive. (The total mail store is around 2GB right now.) This is a lot of hardware running a pretty simple server. I’m sure I’m using a lot more electricity than I need, and the aging drives worry me. With modern technology I think I can do a bit better.

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