On 2006.5.13, at 01:20 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote:
I have my personal web site on my old clamshell iBook, and it runs a
dynamic DNS client every ten minutes via cron. That basically keeps
the disk spinning constantly. Burned out a drive last year, and I'm
worried it will burn out a drive this year. So I'm thinking of
putting the client on a RAM disk, although, since I wrote the client
in perl, I suspect that I'd then have to copy perl itself to the RAM
disk as well.
RAM disks are so cheap now. I saw a 64MB USB on google for $8.97.
Tht's a flash RAM devive, not a RAM disk. Different thing.
Hi Chris,
Why wouldn't it work to put the client code and perl on the USB
keydrive and then every ten minutes, your system will get it from
there instead of from your hard drive? I realize the USB keydrive is
slower to load, but does that matter here?
Definitely a thought. I only write the log and the file that keeps the
actual when the IP actually gets updated, so that wouldn't mess with
anything. Unfortunately, this is one of the models that only has one
USB port and no firewire, so the USB port is also where I hang the
drive I back up to. If I'm going to buy a USB hub for this rig, I think
I'd rather splurge and pick up a full complement of RAM. Powering the
USB hub would add another wall wart, three more physical points of
favor. Japanese apartments at rent I can afford do not offer much space
that is protected, so I'm not just being paranoid.
On the other hand, personal web servers can go off line for long enough
to slip a hub in and then off line again to slip the hub out when the
backup is done, without the world coming to a stop,
Definitely a thought.
