Machines on meep.org

The meep.org domain consists of a selection of servers, spread across two physical locations. The `core' servers are meep.meep.org and spoon.meep.org, which are located at meep Towers in Chiswick, and ESP Events Partnership's offices, respectively. These two machines provide most of the networking services for meep Towers and for the rest of the world; the other machines generally provide peripheral or backup services.

What follows is a brief run down of each machine's specifications and what duties each performs in the frame of the domain as a whole.



meep--
meep is an AMD 5x86/133, with 32MB of physical RAM and 975MB of fixed storage space, running Linux 2.0.29. Its primary functions are mail, news, internal DNS, and as Rabies' workstation. It may sound underspecified by today's standards, but it holds the load on it very well (although I'd like to get myself another machine to take the load of running X off it :)


spoon--
spoon is a Cyrix 6x86/150+, with 32MB of physical RAM and 1.5GB of fixed storage space, running Linux 2.0.29. It is the WWW server for www.meep.org, java.meep.org and newt.meep.org and also hosts the various talkers we provide services for. It also holds the meep.org anonymous FTP archive, and acts as the backup WWW server for ESP Events. And surprisingly enough, it barely ticks over :)


splotch--
splotch is an Intel i586/166, with 64MB of physical RAM and 4.4GB of fixed storage space, running Linux 2.0.29 and Windows NT 4.0. Its main use is as Gavin's workstation, but also acts as a testbed for new kernels, software and hardware, and heavy number crunching that meep (let's face it) just isn't up to :)


spark--
spark is a Sun 4m Sparc machine, with 32MB of physical RAM and 1.9GB of fixed storage space, running Solaris 2.4 (SunOS 5.4). It is the alternate platform for program testing, and provides DNS services for the meep.org domain. Its 'day job' is as the ESP Events Partnership WWW server, as well as doing all the usual stuff that a main company server does. Solaris is yukky.


wibble--
wibble is an Intel i586/166, with 64MB of physical RAM and 2GB of fixed storage space, running Linux 2.0.29 and Windows NT 4.0. It is the box used for heavy-duty graphics work, as well as programming tasks and network monitoring. Oh, and it's Gavin's main work machine.