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- The server had been in B-71 ST Olin before being moved into 248 Baker Lab.
- Shortly after Oliver's arrival in 2012, Oliver notified Ivan of our group's reluctance to continue hosting the server since we were concerned we would be inadvertently drawn into dealing with a preventable crisis. The risk of the crisis was high since the service was critical to NMR's service delivery and the server's hardware was so very old, as was the software it depended on.
- When the server was finally migrated off the hardware (Oct. 2016, to AWS), that hardware was about 13 years old (or even older? From ~2000?).
- It was a Gateway E3400 (Intel Pentium III, max capable of 512 MB RAM (PC133 SDRAM DIMM), etc.)
- http://office.manualsonline.com/manuals/mfg/gateway/e3400.html?p=120
- Also, as a public-facing web server, we judged that it was unacceptably neglected in terms of best practices as well as practices defined by University policy and expectations. For example, it was not being patched or updated regularly or timely, if at all, against security vulnerabilities.
- It had been running an OS version from about October 2005 (RHEL 4.2) (Is this correct OS and date?)).
- When the server was finally migrated off the hardware (Oct. 2016, to AWS), that hardware was about 13 years old (or even older? From ~2000?).
- Early in Oliver's tenure, Ivan hoped to re-write the scheduler. Those plans fell through over the following 4 years.
- The continued neglect of the server, and its increased potential for a crisis, kept on growing as the years passed.