Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:13:19 -0400 From: Greg Larkin <glarkin@FreeBSD.org> To: Jeronimo Calvo <jeronimocalvop@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: upgrading remote server Message-ID: <4ADB5ABF.1030009@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <beaf3aa50910181102k39d23110kd467fe79b4de73f5@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ADB2F6F.8090107@identry.com> <9cbf3f070910180834g775f7116o688ffbdc1861642d@mail.gmail.com> <4ADB51AA.80104@identry.com> <beaf3aa50910181101y1fc66eefs78052dc96857de4e@mail.gmail.com> <beaf3aa50910181102k39d23110kd467fe79b4de73f5@mail.gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeronimo Calvo wrote: > quiet interesting that serial port thingy! do you know the name of it > btw? I will be interested to install on of them... and start saving > some money going to my office :D when i can not use even ssh... > Hi Jeronimo, When I had servers housed in a different data center a few years back, I had good luck with APC PDU units (http://bit.ly/TQHjv) to remotely power-cycle servers, and I also used a serial console server like one of these: http://bit.ly/uoptY This way, if you kill your network interface on a server, you still have a way to get in and fix it without physically traveling to the data center. Hope that helps, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/sourcehosting/ - Follow me, follow you -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFK21q/0sRouByUApARAg89AJ0Wg9HLH18eDQdDKGzQd+AewqRi2ACfXtjX 3noLHY8iHn9c+1tkkGFs2lI= =QNQl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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