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- About us and our website... -

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- Hello! I am Jan, the server owner and I write this about us page on behalf of my team members.
- We are a group of students hosting a variety of services on an old server that I found on the sidewalk. - These services provide the necessary foundation to host a few school projects. -

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- Who we are -

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- Image of the team -

- From left to right: Ilja, Jakob, Jan [me], and Erik -

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- We are in the process of finishing school and our last semester in computer science is a project of our choice. - Our main project is a social media platform but we are hosting some other projects as well. Turns out, we are better at - general server management and providing web space for others than actual software development... -

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- About the server -

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- Image of the server -

- The server at its current place in the basement -

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- The server is a 2006 Dell PowerEdge [whatever number goes here] featuring the 2.66 GHz socket 771 equivalent of some - Intel Core 2 Quad which was considered powerful back then (I guess?). Memory wise, the system has to offer the incredible - amount of four GiB ECC DDR2 RAM which do not quite fulfill the performance and capacity requirements of - most real world applications today but are plenty to host some two or three files on a web server.
- Basically, that thing is *s l o w* but more than enough for my private internet connection. - Guess what, there might have been a reason why it was thrown out by its previous owners.
- As for storage, the server came with three enterprise grade Dell branded Western Digitals (one of which since died) and I threw - in the SSD I pulled from my old laptop as a boot disk. Another laptop hard drive was given to me by a friend but there are - no free S-ATA connectors left. [If someone at our school wants to donate their old drive controller expansion card, feel - free to approach me or one of my team mates. You’ll be the hero of the week and you will be given credit here.]
- Oh, btw: It is worth mentioning the fan. Yes, only one fan (plus the one in the power supply). Before the server was moved - to the basement it was the loudest device in the kitchen, easily capable of exceeding the noise level of my 15 year old - fridge twice. -

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- Okay. That should have given you a rough overview of the hardware. Now, let’s talk software.
- We currently run Ubuntu Server with a custom installation capable of doing GUI stuff as well but we rarely use that. - The best use I found so far is to access internal status web pages via OpenSSH with X forwarding and Firefox.
- The server came with an installation of Windowze Server 2003 but we had no login credentials and who uses Microsoft - products anyways? [BTW: The drives were filled with personal data of the employees. To all enterprises: PleAze WIPe - THe DaTa Off All SERvERS YOU EVeR THrow OUt. You do not want to be in the place former NCIX employees found themselves in - a few years ago.]
- Apart from that, there is not much to say here except for the fact that Ubuntu has become worse over the time I used it and - I’d not choose it again. It is just what I was (and still am) most familiar with. -

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- Our goals -

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- As I briefly mentioned above we want to build a social media platform. Here is a rough feature list of what we have - planned: -

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About us and our website...
+

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+
+

+ Hello! I am Jan, the server owner and I write this about us page on behalf of my team members.
+ We are a group of students hosting a variety of services on an old server that I found on the sidewalk. + These services provide the necessary foundation to host a few school projects. +

+
+
+

+ Who we are +

+
+ Image of the team +

+ From left to right: Ilja, Jakob, Jan [me], and Erik +

+
+
+
+

+ We are in the process of finishing school and our last semester in computer science is a project of our choice. + Our main project is a social media platform but we are hosting some other projects as well. Turns out, we are better at + general server management and providing web space for others than actual software development... +

+

+ About the server +

+
+ Image of the server +

+ The server at its current place in the basement +

+
+ +

+ The server is a 2006 Dell PowerEdge [whatever number goes here] featuring the 2.66 GHz socket 771 equivalent of some + Intel Core 2 Quad which was considered powerful back then (I guess?). Memory wise, the system has to offer the incredible + amount of four GiB ECC DDR2 RAM which do not quite fulfill the performance and capacity requirements of + most real world applications today but are plenty to host some two or three files on a web server.
+ Basically, that thing is *s l o w* but more than enough for my private internet connection. + Guess what, there might have been a reason why it was thrown out by its previous owners.
+ As for storage, the server came with three enterprise grade Dell branded Western Digitals (one of which since died) and I threw + in the SSD I pulled from my old laptop as a boot disk. Another laptop hard drive was given to me by a friend but there are + no free S-ATA connectors left. [If someone at our school wants to donate their old drive controller expansion card, feel + free to approach me or one of my team mates. You’ll be the hero of the week and you will be given credit here.]
+ Oh, btw: It is worth mentioning the fan. Yes, only one fan (plus the one in the power supply). Before the server was moved + to the basement it was the loudest device in the kitchen, easily capable of exceeding the noise level of my 15 year old + fridge twice. +

+ +

+ Okay. That should have given you a rough overview of the hardware. Now, let’s talk software.
+ We currently run Ubuntu Server with a custom installation capable of doing GUI stuff as well but we rarely use that. + The best use I found so far is to access internal status web pages via OpenSSH with X forwarding and Firefox.
+ The server came with an installation of Windowze Server 2003 but we had no login credentials and who uses Microsoft + products anyways? [BTW: The drives were filled with personal data of the employees. To all enterprises: PleAze WIPe + THe DaTa Off All SERvERS YOU EVeR THrow OUt. You do not want to be in the place former NCIX employees found themselves in + a few years ago.]
+ Apart from that, there is not much to say here except for the fact that Ubuntu has become worse over the time I used it and + I’d not choose it again. It is just what I was (and still am) most familiar with. +

+ +

+ Our goals +

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+ As I briefly mentioned above we want to build a social media platform. Here is a rough feature list of what we have + planned: +

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  • + A general purpose forum engine that allows the creation of forums and forum threads +
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  • + Registered users and guest users +
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  • + Anonymity mode: A mode which allows registered users to post anonymously, even in private threads +
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  • + Random contacts: Get to know new people +
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