I run multiple machines partly to split the workload, partly to have multiple operating systems available without buying a copy of VMware, partly to have workstations in various rooms, ... I could see putting DNS, syslogd, web service, RDBMS, overnight comic strips downloading, and mail service all on the same box as the file server if it were studly enough (this collection of services is probably more RAM-bound than CPU-bound), but given a studly box I'd be ever so tempted to either make it a workstation or an application server instead -- and you know I'd find out the hard way how many Opera or GIMP windows it took to make it complain if I made a habit of using the same machine for those and everything else. But it'd let me cull the oldest and/or most troublesome machines anyhow.
(Problem is, I've got too many ideas for projects, some of which will be a little resource intensive. OTOH, I'm about to find out just how much faster a Sparcstation 5 is than a Sparcstation 2, and the number of "pizza boxes" has climbed to eight, so some of these projects will probably get Suns thrown at them.)
I'm not really sure how fast and how large it would take. (The "big disk" in the house now is the 40 gig in the file server. It's starting to get full, but it's also holding assorted software for three operating systems as well as everything else.)
I think I'd still want to keep PPP on a separate machine outside the firewall.
The Debian box (one of the newer machines in the house (and the fastest), which made its failure more surprising & alarming) did eventually start again after I pushed hard on the RAM and the CPU. It didn't feel like anything moved when I pushed on it, but I guess there was one bad connection on one pin somewhere.
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(Problem is, I've got too many ideas for projects, some of which will be a little resource intensive. OTOH, I'm about to find out just how much faster a Sparcstation 5 is than a Sparcstation 2, and the number of "pizza boxes" has climbed to eight, so some of these projects will probably get Suns thrown at them.)
I'm not really sure how fast and how large it would take. (The "big disk" in the house now is the 40 gig in the file server. It's starting to get full, but it's also holding assorted software for three operating systems as well as everything else.)
I think I'd still want to keep PPP on a separate machine outside the firewall.
The Debian box (one of the newer machines in the house (and the fastest), which made its failure more surprising & alarming) did eventually start again after I pushed hard on the RAM and the CPU. It didn't feel like anything moved when I pushed on it, but I guess there was one bad connection on one pin somewhere.