The server closet in Nelson Hall houses our new and old servers
Among the benefits our our new Honors College space are four spacious closets. Nelson Hall, our new home, was once a residence hall. So, we now have four closets. Two are in David Wingfield's office and are used for storage of files and other stuff.
The other two are in my office. Today, one became the new home of peace.saumag.edu, mdst.org, mulerider.saumag.edu, and francis.saumag.edu. I removed the closet door so that the space would not get too hot. Suraj installed (see picture above, clockwise from upper left) our old server box, a monitor, keyboard (no mouse required for old UNIX command line interface), another monitor, keyboard, mouse, new server box, and uninterrupted power supply. Don't worry Suraj only needs to go into the closet rarely. He can access both servers remotely from the comfort of his desk next door.
The servers provide Web pages for psychology and honors courses, host the Web page of the Magnolia Dolphin Swim team, and most importantly provide resources for social work departments around Arkansas as well as the IV-E project.
While the servers now have a new home much still remains to be done. Soon, they will be configured for "fail-over" meaning that should the new (main) server crash, the old one would automatically take over. Additionally, both servers will contain the same information, while a nightly back up to a hard disk will add additional redundancy.
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