Seems that the upgrade for the server has been on my list for at least a year. Finally got around to this as a heavy load for web service is about to arrive again. After finding a new motherboard for my desktop, which let me move to a quad processor machine running Windows 7, my next stop was to replace the power hungry server that was running web and mail services for several domains.
My initial plan was to take the old motherboard from my desktop and use that, but the server software would not install – period! Even tried all the tweaks that the OS/2 User Group could come up with. That was going to be a 2.4Ghz machine with 1.5G of memory. Alas, that was not going to work.
Tried an older motherboard that we had used in my classroom, but just could not get that speed demon out of my mind. Finally, at the nudging of my OS/2 buddies, decided to run everything on a variant of OS/2 called “eComstation” or “eCS” on that fast motherboard. The software was sitting here, since I changed my desktop from eCS to Windows XP, so it wasn’t like having to buy some software. eCS has all the same services, except for the actual “server” software, but would run all the applications needed for the web and mail services.
Sure glad I decided to get some mind-melding from the OS/2 community, because I was on my way to a box that probably would have been slower than what it replaced.
After the install, updates and necessary testing, “warp2” is on line serving web pages and sending and receiving emails. Hopefully the electricity bill will show an almost immediate drop.
Welcome to warp2!