More Church client news
Zimbra has been a bit hit. I’m currently trying to get the software lifecycles synchronized. Zimbra 7 has just been released.. unfortunately zimbra does not support Debian any longer. Centos 6 is about to be released and I’m not a fan of Ubuntu. Centos 5 expires in 2014 which is about the same time as Zimbra 7.… Read more
Radio Support
Got the new server online months ago..sorry for the lack of news. I wound up sticking with Debian. Everything went smoothly and now there are several domains running off of this box including multiple streaming servers. Now a bigger challenge looms…moving this station to a new location AND hooking everything up to it’s new location. will keep folks posted as I can.
IN Support of Another NPO
I have been doing IT work as a volunteer for a local radio station WTHU for a few years now. Slowly but surely we have been moving along the technology track int he right direction. We have a stout server in wash state that handles our streaming. The costs for this are extremely reasonable but time have… Read more
Server Donation Part 4
Well i got the servers in and really didn’t want to wait for the 12u rack…mainly because it’s not int he budget right now. I took one of the servers and have installed untangle on it. I now have 4 network cards in the thing. One is red(internet), one is blue(free public wifi) and one… Read more
Zimbra is about ready to go
I just need to get the final list of current mailboxses and get the DNS switched over. Staff meeting this Monday to see if they’ll give the green light. I have found several extensions(called zimlets) that really extend the featureset of the Zimbra platform. I know have built into the platform: 1. Automatic detection of UPS and… Read more
Major Server Donation: Step 1 Server 1
What are the needs that this server can address? At this time the church’s website is hosted by powweb on their free package for non profits. Unfortunately their e-mail services are horrendously unreliable. We have a business class internet connection with a static ip. We have more than enough outgoing bandwidth to handle e-mail. While… Read more
What to do with a major server donation
You can read about the donation here. I have three IBM x335’s on the way with dual p-4 xeon 2.8 ghz cpu’s, dual 36 gig 10k rpm SCSI drives with hardware raid 1, 4 gigs of ram, all the cables needed including ILO, and rails. All for the cost of shipping. Why am I posting about it here? I run the… Read more