I like what I am reading. I especially like that we can create a private hub and a public hub -- multiple hubs. There are other features you and others have mentioned. In some way I might be able to help another ham club with a hub of their own. Who knows... -----Original Message----- From: Steve Zingman Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 2:11 PM To: R. Wayne Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Hub Computer I run VMware. No big deal to install and run. I'm running Debian Wheezy now. Moving to Jessie soon. I've also installed on Linode. "R. Wayne" <allstar@controlservers.net> wrote: Oh, okay. I get you now. But I am curious how you got it into VM. We run Virtuozzo and my boss did offer me the opportunity to do so. That would put my machine on a nightly backup, behind the hardware firewall, etc. I can change the drives easily enough to SSD and lower the heat. That sure kills HDD's. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Zingman Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 1:56 PM To: R. Wayne Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Hub Computer You said "My boss is letting me put the server in the data centerso I have unlimited bandwidth." I read that as your server, his data center. All I was saying is that make sure you use the most reliable server you can. Dual power supplies and mirrored RAM ware a example of that. I have been running our hub as a VM in my data center for the past 4 years. So I take advantage of the underlying robust host hardware. 73, Steve N4IRS On 04/02/2015 04:39 PM, R. Wayne wrote:

I'm not sure what you mean by your server" and my boss. He has nothing to do with my personally owned server. I can add a second power supply and SS drives. Mirrored RAM isn't really necessary.

-----Original Message----- From: Steve Zingman Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 10:31 AM To: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org Subject: [App_rpt-users] Hub Computer

Wayne, No reason not to use your preferred server over the Celeron. I would pay attention more to things like dual power supplies, mirrored RAM etc. The things that keep a server running day in and day out. I'm sure you don't want to explain to the boss as to why you need to fix "your" server. 73, Steve N4IRS

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We are setting up a three repeater system that will link all repeaters as we choose. As an ECOMM repeater system we will be able to selectively disconnect so that users may locally deal with their emergencies. Not a problem. Be we are wanting others to connect to our hub for nets or even chit-chat when the world is safe LOL. We are currently using a Dell 2.66GHz Celeron w/1GB of RAM. I was told that this is overkill. As Scooby wouldsay, ?Haruh?? Since I work for a company that throws old PC servers out I have my choice of many AMD?s at 2GHz and up. But I have a favored server with dual AMD 275?s and 8GB of RAM. This is a FAST PC!!! What?s wrong with using it? Is a wimpy Celeron a better choice for a hub server? ShouldI just add RAM and a SSD drive? I?m OK with that but we really want others to link to us. My boss is letting me put the server in the data centerso I have unlimited bandwidth. Our repeaters will all have RTCM?s.