Nov 01 2007

Mail and Web Server VM’s – I’m gonna miss you!

Published by Sean at 8:09 pm under technology

It was sweet while it lasted, but alas it’s over.

Last weekend I retired my Web Server VM, and a couple of days ago I retired my Mail Server VM. I now have a surplus computer (anyone wanna buy a quad core intel box with 4gb of RAM and 1.5TB of hard disk space?).

After my inability to get my media center extender to pair with my Windows MCE based quad core powerhouse, that left said powerhouse with only two purposes, 1. Web Server and 2. Mail Server! Hardly justifies throwing that kind of horsepower at such a small task so I re-purposed an old Athlon 2500+, installed Ubuntu 7.10 Lamp server and moved my web server over on the weekend.  On Tuesday night I went live with the mail server. While that may seem like sad news (if you’re like me) it wasn’t all a loss!

After getting the mail server up and running, I used part of this tutorial to convert my postfix/courier install to add anti virus and spam scanning capabilities. I was pretty pleased with how simple it turned out to be.

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  1. # Wayneon 03 Nov 2007 at 12:16 am

    We love our Archos 404 media server. I’ve got a 500gb external usb hard drive hooked up to it. The new Archos TV+ looks nice: http://www.archos.com/products/gen_5/archos_tv/index.html?country=global&lang=en

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