So that’s it. Now that my family photo site and my blog have been moved over to the new servers, it’s time to decommission the old one. I have a Dell Poweredge 2500 running in my basement that hosted all my toys. This site being one of them. The system was a beast and so to alleviate the cost of running it (I am sure it was around $10 monthly) I have decided to move it all outside of my house.

Now the blog should be lightning fast. It’s nice to have a really quick server behind your work so you don’t have to worry about processor time. This was another reason why a replacement was needed.

Next steps before this weekends power down? I have to move my home automation server to another computer in my house. This will most likely be my media center PC as it’s always running and simply that alone makes it a logical choice.

Data has been copied off the machine. It was hosting my data backups but I now have NAS for that. Which I must say is an amazing thing. In reality it’s a hard disk in an enclosure that has support for network. Then a little web interface to setup the share.

Wish me luck with the decommissioning, I’ll keep you posted!