From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 18 18:13:22 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B79DD1065676 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:13:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail1.sourcehosting.net (113901-app1.sourcehosting.net [72.32.213.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 927118FC14 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:13:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 68-189-245-235.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com ([68.189.245.235] helo=cube.entropy.prv) by mail1.sourcehosting.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1MzaFn-000Ezv-In; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:13:21 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (fireball.entropy.prv [192.168.1.12]) by cube.entropy.prv (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9368636244C2; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:13:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4ADB5ABF.1030009@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:13:19 -0400 From: Greg Larkin Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeronimo Calvo References: <4ADB2F6F.8090107@identry.com> <9cbf3f070910180834g775f7116o688ffbdc1861642d@mail.gmail.com> <4ADB51AA.80104@identry.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=1C940290 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -0.4 (/) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: upgrading remote server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: glarkin@FreeBSD.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:13:22 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeronimo Calvo wrote: > quiet interesting that serial port thingy! do you know the name of it > btw? I will be interested to install on of them... and start saving > some money going to my office :D when i can not use even ssh... > Hi Jeronimo, When I had servers housed in a different data center a few years back, I had good luck with APC PDU units (http://bit.ly/TQHjv) to remotely power-cycle servers, and I also used a serial console server like one of these: http://bit.ly/uoptY This way, if you kill your network interface on a server, you still have a way to get in and fix it without physically traveling to the data center. Hope that helps, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/sourcehosting/ - Follow me, follow you -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFK21q/0sRouByUApARAg89AJ0Wg9HLH18eDQdDKGzQd+AewqRi2ACfXtjX 3noLHY8iHn9c+1tkkGFs2lI= =QNQl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----