Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen
Anyone who has any number of servers that they manage will eventually see failures. It’s just natural, hardware gets old and dies. Or you run completely over the hardware’s ability to keep up with demand.
Both of those things happened this year.
First – and I have to say this, forgive me – Windows Server 2003 has served me well. But the hardware just would not keep up with three to five users who kept three to five programs open each. This is a machine that has dual PIII 1ghz chips and a whopping 1.5gb ram. Three full time users on Windows 2003 Server, even I’m a little impressed. But it was straining under the heavy load. And the load was heavy.
My partner ordered the new Dell to replace the VisionMan gray box server that served us so well for these last several years. The server itself – hardware – is still up and strong. I have had to replace CPU fans on one of our machines, but that happens sometimes.
The migration from Windows 2003 Server (using Terminal Services for Windows based software access) to Windows Server 2008 64bit (also with Terminal Services) has been a little bumpy.1 I nearly fell out of my chair when the current year tax software installed without any major hitches. Our Windows Server is now online – all major software has been migrated and the Windows 2003 server has been powered off awaiting the day it is wiped clean.
- Mostly chronicled in Geek News and Stuff
