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Resolved: Is it bad to stack rackmount servers? #fix #it #computers

Resolved: Is it bad to stack rackmount servers? #fix #it #computers

Is it bad to stack rackmount servers?

I have a couple of Dell 1U rackmount servers that I need to temporarily move out of a rack.

Is it bad for them to be stacked on top of eachother?

Answer [by Massimo]: Is it bad to stack rackmount servers?

If they are just a couple servers and if they are 1U, stacking them on top of each other should do them no harm at all.

Of course, it’s quitea…

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Resolved: Is carpet, or another floor covering, appropriate for a server room? #answer #programming #development

Resolved: Is carpet, or another floor covering, appropriate for a server room? #answer #programming #development

Is carpet, or another floor covering, appropriate for a server room?

Ive requested the carpet to be removed from my server room, a disaster was almost waiting to happen air con leaked and the carpet UNDER the rack was soaked. (air con unit 0.3 meter from rear of servers)

They have asked if we can have some sort of lining thrown over the carpet as it is a rented building.

If so what material or…

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How to: How to keep your physical server environment manageable #solution #development #dev

How to: How to keep your physical server environment manageable #solution #development #dev

How to keep your physical server environment manageable

Anybody who’s ever worked with servers and even a small LAN environment knows (or should know) how messy things can get. Cables, routers, hubs, servers and so on.

Everything crawling where it shouldn’t go, and good luck finding that one cable that’s preventing John’s PC to connect to the rest of the Intranet when John works on the first…

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How-to: How do I physically prevent people from unplugging an Ethernet cable? #solution #dev #programming

How-to: How do I physically prevent people from unplugging an Ethernet cable? #solution #dev #programming

How do I physically prevent people from unplugging an Ethernet cable?

We have a crowded computer laboratory. We render free Ethernet ports for laptop users. But they don’t carry their Ethernet cables with them, they unplug cable of a fixed desktop PC and plug it to their laptop. When their work is finished, they don’t even plug it back to the PC. Worse than that, after a lot of…

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How-to: Computer in cold and damp environment (a shed) #programming #solution #fix

How-to: Computer in cold and damp environment (a shed) #programming #solution #fix

Computer in cold and damp environment (a shed)

Background

I am hoping to convert a shed in my garden into a home office. The shed has a concrete base and brese block walls. It already has Power and Ethernet and will soon be watertight. However I am now wondering about some of the practicalities.

Questions

How do computers cope in (cold -5 – 5 C) and damp (over 100% humidity) environments over an…

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Resolved: Do you work in your server room? #answer #solution #it

Resolved: Do you work in your server room? #answer #solution #it

Do you work in your server room?

I once had a job offer from a company that wanted my workstation to be in the AC controlled, noisy server room with no natural light. I’m not sure what their motivation was. Possibly it made sense to them for me to be close to the servers, or possibly they wanted to save the desk space for other employees.

I turned down the job (for many reasons, including the…

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Answer: Do you work in your server room? #solution #development #fix

Answer: Do you work in your server room? #solution #development #fix

Do you work in your server room?

I once had a job offer from a company that wanted my workstation to be in the AC controlled, noisy server room with no natural light. I’m not sure what their motivation was. Possibly it made sense to them for me to be close to the servers, or possibly they wanted to save the desk space for other employees.

I turned down the job (for many reasons, including the…

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