On Mar 07, 2007 at 15:23, Eamonn Sullivan praised the llamas by saying: > Hi all, > > I've just built a home/soho server and I'm hoping someone here could > help me with a couple of questions. It's a headless server (dual-core, > three 320GB hard drive with RAID5) where I'm running the increasingly > complicated applications that I use for home and work. It runs the > MoinMoin wiki, BackupPC, subversion and Samba filesharing, supportingr > two Ubuntu PCs, an iMac and a laptop. (I have five children in > secondary/college/university, a busy nurse wife and I use the wiki and > subversion from both home and work -- that network gets *heavy* > use...) > > I'm thinking of using a UPC for the first time. Quick questions: > > - The server has a 500W power supply (an Antec Phantom), although I > did that on the hope that an overpowered power supply will be quieter > (and it's very quiet). Does that mean I need a UPS rated at 500W or > would a smaller one be OK? The £80-range ones do something like 380 > watts. The 500W ones quickly get into the £200 range.
I have around 4 computers hanging off a 700VA APC SmartUPS, including one with an Antec power supply, and it's not fully loaded yet. 380VA should be more than enough for one server. > > - Am I correct that, even in Feisty, all UPS-related software is in > universe? There's no fully-supported way of monitoring and reacting to > UPS signals? > > - Does anyone have any recommendations on UPS/software combos? > I have always liked APC SmartUPSs. I believe NUT is the software de jour. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
