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Server Cooling Solution for Small Business?
An anonymous reader asks: "What cheap yet effective cooling solutions are available for servers for a small business? Keep in mind, I don't mean a small 100 employee business but rather 10 full time employees. The place is based out of an ex-residential unit, outfitted for the business. As with any small business, there wasn't any real consideration for IT needs when the place was built. The organization is getting its first real in-house server and all rooms within the unit are already in use, meaning the server must live nicely in office space, with humans, where the existing switch is. The organization follows a policy of turning off PCs and air-conditioning out of hours and in the Australian summer, the unit easily heats up past 35 degrees Celsius, exceeding the maximum operating ambient temperature for the server. Now, I can convince them of leaving the air-conditioner on, but the humans may not want the room as cool as I want it for the server and it's difficult to ensure that no one has turned it off. Are there any other cheap yet effective cooling solutions for a small business where the budget is extremely limited?"
Well, the bits about most of the audience being in the US are sort of "Made in the USA", then the bits about "In the US, you can get a window unit air conditioner for under $100 US" are pretty much "Made in the USA"...
I suppose you might say it was tounge in cheek, just as my initial thoughts were tounge in cheek, I was going to reply with this:
How about you guys move out of the 18th centry and get with the metric system!
I guess if I had said that some of you "Yanks" would take that in a negative light, and I guess it is, metric is simple and sane!
But all that aside, just get rid of that bush fella and the rest of the western world will tolerate you guys again. Hell, we loved Clinton, and just don't understand why you guys were so upset that he let a girl give him some stress relief!
We didn't like Bush version 1.0 or that senile actor you elected before him either buy the way...
Oh, and stop shooting kids in schools, in fact, get over the guns, hunting is fine, but no one sane uses a semi auto pistol to hunt ducks!