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Looks great. What size critical load build out is that?
Now that is protection. Your files are secure forever.
~1MW capacity. Fully diverse A/B power, tier 3 facility. We're configured to handle up to 18kw per rack without any changes to the PDUs. This location is loaded with extra tall 52U cabinets. It's really something beautiful to see
How many cabinets compromise the 1 mw critical load?
A handful over 100
External cooling equipment and power generator compartment
Diesel generator of 5KWh with automatic start
Internal AC unit with remote control
On-grid photovoltaic system on the left side (6KWh attached out of a maximum of 8 possible) and 5KWh off-grid (0KWh attached out of a maximum of 6 possible) system with 4.8KWh AGM batteries. This summer I intend to add another 8KWh of photovoltaic panels to have a total of 14 KWh that will ensure almost all of our energy consumption almost all year round.
The front of our 42U rack containing 2 switches and 6 servers
The back of the rack where you can see the chaos of the wires. Initially I was happy that I could produce short internet cables by myself, thinking that it would be aesthetic and efficient, until I wanted to remove a node to upgrade its RAM and I discovered that the cables of other servers were preventing me from - I carry out my operation.
https://imgur.com/a/xLZtsuh And a video with all servers running
https://i.imgur.com/8ezUgAV.mp4 1.5 petabyte of storage video
Happy to see u again here.
How do you mix off grid and on grid ?
Hey!
Glad to see u again:)
It's a complicated architecture, but I hope I can explain it:
1. The grid is directly connected to the on-grid inverter and the diesel generator
2. The off-grid inverter is connected to the grid, to the diesel generator, to the batteries and in the future to its own photovoltaic panels
3. the rack is connected to the output of the off-grid inverter
So, if we have sunshine, the energy is consumed directly by the rack and in case of a power cut, the off-grid inverter uses the photovoltaic panels or the batteries for a few seconds until the generator starts. If the generator does not start, we have an autonomy of approximately 3 hours, since the consumption is ~1.25KWh and the batteries hold 4.4KWh.
Here's our little setup. Not the best and very messy in the back
As you can see we do have quite a few old servers in our second rack but that's just to setup a special grab bag for $14.99 to get people on the platform.
@matey0
A bulk order of MC12-LE0 motherboards we're about to deploy. After testing and BIOS updates they're pretty decent, minus the PCIE 3.0 x1 M.2 slot. Though the insane price on these was too good to pass on.
Pretty sick photos and builds, though: VirtFusion and TenantOS? Ew, gross software stack.
Thanks!
Haha
We actually use Paymenter for our billing area. I really enjoy it since it's a nice fresh breath of air compared to WHMCS. I tried Blesta too, but it still felt super cluttered/old. It was still way better then WHMCS.
In the end it's a pretty simple Laravel application and I think that's why I love it so much. I've already made some in house extensions for it.
what do you think @c1vhosting about some machines into something like that?
How do you like TenantOS? I looked at a few other platforms and they felt like something was missing but the TenantOS documentation looks awesome to me.
I would say it's good but it's the only DCIM panel I've used so I can't really compare.
The support from TenantOS is alright, 1-2 business day response times but they're pretty helpful and knowledgeable. Documentation is pretty good like you've said. API works great.
Provisioning mostly works since I needed to create some scripts to fix UEFI boot order after installations. Otherwise it just booted into the OS without checking PXE first if a installation was requested later on.
( I don't know if that's just a me issue with how I setup something or not )
That's pretty much it. It works great for me.
That would be ideal for some small colocation cages. Bring into each 3x60A service, with 3-6x 7kw cooling capacity AC units, those new inverter R32 units are super cheap. 33kw power budget inc. cooling each, would be sufficient for several racks depending how dense you pack.
Bonus points if waste heat is used to heat rest of the building, or economizers installed.
decade ago or so we thought about providing something like that. Unsure if there's market for lowend colo like that. Idea was express easy colocation, just signup from website, get keycodes and move in, with everything there ready including 10G Drop with a small subnet of IPs.
With a partnership we'd be able to actually accomplish this now, "trivially", all across Finland. But it would be side quest with questionable scalability etc. Makes only sense if it serves our other purposes. Which it might in a few years time.
Those buildings need heating, so it's theoretically possible to get below 1.00 effective PUE during winters (100% waste heat re-use) and that might make that actually happen as a byproduct.
There was a project similar to this (failed because of internet, high starting cost since it was meant to decentralized blah blah), but it sould be incredibly cool. I'd just guess that customer base in Finland might not be enough though.
Edit: though, in Finland, fast internet probably would be way less of a problem.
In Finland; I can bring 100G no probs anywhere, higher than that costs start to increase exponentially.
But yeah, Finland has too small population and way too high taxes to make anything like this a profitable venture. Everything in Finland boils down to taxes why it's not profitable to do tho ... Well, all of Europe really.
Some new tech porn ?
We have new servers hosted in Dallas and we hope to expand our platform in the future.
Nice
Luck with that and show us more when update