We desperately need a server upgrade.  We currently have 2 dedicated boxes, and it’s certainly starting to show it’s age.  Major problem is space.  I need more space to be able to upgrade TR and TF.

So I am putting the pressure on Aharon to buy us something new.  Looking at this — http://knownhost.com/dedicated-servers.html

It’s what a site I frequent quite often (tankspot.com) uses, and they have many times our current users, so if it works for them, should work for us.

We can get a nicely configured quadcore i970 box, 12gb ram, 2x500gb drives, for about $300 a month.  Only caveate is bandwidth, it comes with 2.5TB.  Not sure how much we are currently using.  I should look that up.

Biggest issue with that is backups.  The drives are not mirrored (ouch!).  so what happens if we have a disk failure?

in other news, making some real headway with Drupal for HFC.  Using the Organic Groups module, I can set a “Cause” as an Organic Group, and then a “Need” as a sub reply.  The Needs can then have discussions.  It’s really easier than I anticipated.  More work to do tweaking it and I think I might try a fresh Drupal install.

Part of the frustration with the current server we are on is I can’t get php-mbstring installed, and Drupal needs it.  Bummer

So work is… work.. and not overly bad right now.  Finally feel like I have direction.  Still can’t wait until I can actually DO some appsec.