PBase.com Servers Photo Gallery by Slug at pbase.com

PBase.com Servers

These are the main PBase servers.
There are another 13 servers that live in other locations doing jobs including jpeg webserving, dns, mail, and backups.

More details on the servers at http://www.pbase.com/server_info

These machines are mostly Dells, Intel PIII and Xeons, running Redhat Linux.

The Dell Powervaults are the primary RAID storage.

All of this will be improved over time for increased capacity and stability. Just a matter of cash.

servers_20050324.jpg	JARO JILL JILIK JOGO	JAMA JENKI JINKO JOBI JACK JIKI
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Guest		24-Apr-2009 05:33
And to think that my first hands-on machine was a 12-bit word PDP-8 with 8k of iron-core memory, a word-addressable 256k 128 fixed-head hard disc, two 131k fixed-block-addressable DEC-tapes, an extra Teletype, and a single dial-up modem. I am impressed.

Michaval		29-Mar-2007 11:16
Congratulations. It is a pleasure to know the creator of this site, that so many satisfactions it gives us. Gracias

Archiaston Musamma Family		23-Sep-2006 10:24
I really love pbase. It is very fast and reliable.

Jim Kramer		20-Jul-2006 12:51
cool gallery! It's nice to see where it all happens. I've only been here for a month, but I'll be around for a long time to come - and I'll be referring many more! Thanks for all the hard work! -Jim

Martha Albuquerque		29-Mar-2006 18:56
Thanks for the oportunity to use this wonderful site. pbase is the best! martha albuquerque

Slug		07-Nov-2005 12:19
In reply to Mike Morgan. The PBase servers live in a facility that provides the space, power, cooling, and network connection. So yes, there are huge banks of batteries that can power the entire data center long enough for the diesel generators to take over.

Mike Morgan		06-Nov-2005 19:10
Quite a success story for you. Great job. Often at some customers I see power source backups like a UPS battery system or something else. Does pbase require this for the servers?

Slug		16-Aug-2005 10:11
the left cabinet now has two more x-serves and two more x-serve raids. they act together as the primary copy of images. this is where your uploads go. the x-serve raids in the right cabinet are the secondary mirror of the images. the disk arrays in the third cabinet used to be the primary copy, but now are part of the secondary mirror. all together, there is about 40-50TB of raw disk space. there are eight 20amp circuits providing power to these machines.

Johnny Chiang		14-Aug-2005 02:37
what do those apple x-serves do? impressive setup :)

Marjan Schavemaker		04-Jun-2005 11:09
Slug, you are doing an amazing job, Pbase is that much fun!

Slug		18-Apr-2005 21:52
nothing wrong with a Dual 700 for the first year and a half, PBase ran entirely on a dual 350Mhz PII which i still use as a desktop machine.

James Marshall		18-Apr-2005 16:51
These make my Dual Intel PIII 700MHz server look like nothing! It's amazing to think these hold pbase!

Mary Bowles		26-Mar-2005 08:30
Blimey. What a set-up. Great to see the nuts and bolts of the system. Cheers and thanks. Keep on keeping on.

Kenneth Tsang		23-Jun-2004 14:26
From Kenneth in Hong Kong, this is lovely!! I am also a nerd base 10 yrs ago when I was in UK!! I will support pbase starting from me and my son (little baby of 19 months old)

hatton		19-May-2004 04:33
How cool is this, to think that my photographs are stored in there!!

Matias Asun		15-Apr-2004 20:40
PBase is great!, Thanks JARO, JILL, JILIK, JOGO, JAMA, JENKI, JINKO, JOBI, JACK and JIKI.. Well Done.

Kenneth Harden		06-Feb-2004 21:02
How many $23 accounts did it take to buy all those!!!???

Devin Breen		17-Jan-2004 09:16
Much love from Chicago. Thanks for the experience, the whole setup is a piece of art,.

chelo		07-Jan-2004 13:51
have a Great 2004 !! I will be supporting pbase from here (southamerica - argentina ) thanks guys ! marcelo

vera		01-Jan-2004 04:54
An earnest THANK YOU to Slug et al. for a great year of Pbase! Happy New Year 2004, I'm looking forward to having another year of fun & photo-sharing here!!! :-) Many cheers, Vera.

Aaron Kwong		13-Dec-2003 17:29
DAMN i want an EOS 10D too!

Ollie Maitland		30-Oct-2003 18:17
Which server is which?

bibo_bb		05-Oct-2003 21:02
Are you in charge of pbase?

Amano		22-Sep-2003 01:43
Hey Slug - you've got some damn fine galleries up there and they're really really well presented. Quite an inspirational site I must say - Keep it up!

Shay Noy		29-Jul-2003 16:10
just a thought.... how much space all the pics are taking? :D

Steven Lee		29-Jun-2003 14:22
thanks for your wonderful job! without this, i wouldn't be able to see this wonderful world!

Trevor Edwards		29-Jun-2003 05:23
Nice to know where my pictures are hiding. Great job you're doing Slug, love the site. TREV

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