Today was a busy day working on an e-mail migration, but fortunately I found some time to finish my new server.
When we, 
Hive account@blockbrothers, set up our very first witness server two days ago, I wanted some peace of mind in knowing the witness account would be put on standby if the server would crash. When we get some income out of witnessing, we can then invest in a backup server and arrange for seemless failover capabilities. This requires some kind of monitoring server and luckily I had some spare hardware lying around (which used to be my custom built NAS). Anyways, I had re-used the case for another project, so I ordered a shiny new rackmount case (this was on my wishlist for long, but now I had an actual excuse to spend the money).
I started off like this, but that's not really a permanent solution:
Then this arrived in the mail today (yay!):
Off to work...
...aaaand result!
And it is now off my desk, and into the rack.
Yes, it's a mess. I need to clean it up some day...
I'm lucky to have a stable fiber internet connection at home (100/100Mbit), so I can rest assured our servers are monitored 24/7. One of the perks of living in a densely populated area in The Netherlands I guess.
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