[HECnet] Area 44 status

[Dave McGuire]

On 04/10/2012 02:32 PM, H Vlems wrote:
Is electricity free where you live ???

  Hardly, but I just moved to a place where it costs MUCH less than
where I used to live.   Besides, the DS10L pulls almost no power, and the
VAX I'm considering running full-time is a 4000VLC, which pulls even less.

  As for the rest, remember that I am constructing a museum here.

I'd love to have a couple of machines up and running, the extra mains power
bill would be a little too much for my wallet. A DS10L isn't that bad
probably but even a VAXstation 4000-VLC adds about 20 euro's to the monthly
power bill. Let alone running a couple of power hungry Alpha Server 1200's
and Digital Server 5305's!

  My power bill here (remember this is a 14,000 square foot commercial
building) is about $275/mo.   About $190 of that is my production
network, which I use for work as well as everything else.

  In the summer with air conditioning, that will go up, but we're not
sure how much yet as we've just recently moved into this building.

  Contrast that to what I had been paying, $700/mo in the summer,
$550/mo in the winter living in Florida, running air conditioning
24x7x265.   We are MUCH happier here in Pennsylvania. (and plus there's
actual work to be found, which there isn't in Florida!)

  My production network currently consists of:

  Cisco 7200 VXR router
  Cisco Catalyst 3548XL switch
  Cisco Catalyst 3508XL switch
  Sun V480 server (quad UltraSPARC III+), sixteen drives
  HP DL585 VMware host (quad Opteron), four drives
  Sun Netra V100 (DNS server)
  80-slot SDLT tape library for backups

  But also note that this network is how I make a living, maintain
communication with the outside world, and provide services for friends
and some other companies that I want to support.

                        -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA