Articles tagged “datacenter”

• Cables labeling Re­cent­ly, I was adding new serv­er hard­ware. I took it as an op­por­tu­ni­ty to rewire all net­work ca­bles. This ar­ti­cle ex­plains how the task was per­formed. Ca­bles man­age­ment is like reg­u­lar back­ups: every­body (by every­body, I mean peo­ple who ac­tu­al­ly…
  hardware 11 datacenter 4 cables-management 1
• Naming conventions for servers The rant se­ries of this blog will be in­com­plete if I wouldn't men­tion the nam­ing con­ven­tions for servers, es­pe­cial­ly since I've nev­er even seen a con­ven­tion which would make at least some sense in any com­pa­ny. The three pre­vail­ing nam­ing con­ven­tions…
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• Cloud computing: a rather expensive alternative I was al­ways con­vinced that buy­ing own servers is the most stu­pid thing a com­pa­ny can do at the era of cloud com­put­ing. If I deal with servers, it is ex­clu­sive­ly be­cause: I love deal­ing with servers. This alone is enough. There are a lot of things to…
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• Naming conventions for servers, two years later A few years ago, I wrote an ar­ti­cle ex­plain­ing how do I name servers. Since then, lit­tle changed, and con­ven­tions used in com­pa­nies are still in­sane. Men­tal­i­ty hasn't changed ei­ther, and it's still con­sid­ered pro­fes­sion­al to have ar­bi­trary,…
  rant 34 datacenter 4