Zenoc.net

zenoc.net servers

zenoc.net needs powerful servers to provide the things it does. There has been a variety of hosts used over the years, each new server usually providing improvements over the last.

Servers in present operation

Friendly name	OS	DNS	Purpose
Oberon	Debian Linux 12	oberon.zenoc.net	Main multi-purpose machine.
Vertigo	Debian Linux 12, Testing	vertigo.zenoc.net	Side server for minor tasks.

Primary Servers

Alpha

2.4GHz CPU
512MB RAM
Ubuntu Server 18.10

A short-lived VPS providing IRC bouncers and web hosting. Brought online in December 2019 and replaced with Oris in January 2020 due to a security breach.

Oris

2.4GHz CPU
512MB RAM
Ubuntu Server 18.10

Successor to Alpha after a security breach, once again hosting IRC and web hosting among various other things. Exactly the same specifications as Alpha, and presumably the same virtualization host. Replaced with Basher in March 2020, but was running until January 2021.

Basher

Intel Xeon E5-2530v4 @ 2.2GHz, 4 cores allocated to VPS
8GB of RAM
200Mbps internet connection, zero contention
Debian Linux 10, stable

A versatile server providing various services including screen sessions for terminal-based IRC clients, IRC bouncers, bots, and web hosting. It was online from March 2020 and achieved more than 850 days of uptime before being taken offline in February 2023. It was only rebooted once.

Basher's host

Glacier

Winter's unstoppable force.

Quad-core Intel i3-4160 @ 3.6GHz
8GB DDR3 memory
1TB Hard disk
Debian Linux 12, stable

Very similar to Basher in terms of hardware, with a slightly slower CPU and a hard disk rather than an SSD. The downgrade was because balance for a monthly committment to a datacentre computer was unavailable, so it was home-hosted. It provided web hosting, IRC bouncers, and various other services. In service from March 2023 until July 2024 and accumulated over 480 days of uptime.

Glacier

Desecrate II

Unleash the forbidden.

Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 (4 cores, 8 threads) @ 3.8GHz
32GB DDR3 1600MHz ECC memory
4x 2TB hard disks in RAID-10 for 4TB of storage with redundancy.
1000/100 Mbps internet connection, zero contention
Debian Linux 13, testing

A high-performance server named after an unsuccessful machine before it, hosted in a datacentre, and intended to replace Glacier. It serves web hosting, bot hosting, IRC bouncers (or a terminal-based IRC client running in screen/tmux), video game servers, and much more. It provides a substantial improvement over Glacier, boasting four times as much memory and storage, double the core count, plus an outstanding network connection. In operation since June 6 2024. During December of 2024, it was noted that a hard drive in the system was not detected. Support was prompted and the issue was resolved, but this was the third bad hard drive in the 5 month span. The decision was made to abandon OVH.

Desecrate II

Oberon

A Midsummer Night's Dream.

6x AMD EPYC CPUs
16GB DDR5 ECC memory
400GB SSD
100Mbit/s internet connection
Debian Linux 12

Oberon serves as a high-availability machine like Desecrate II was before. Put in service on December 7 2024 and in use today. This server uses SSDs instead of hard drives which makes it faster. The downgrade from dedicated to virtual hardware as well as the decrease in RAM was motivated by two factors: In the 5 months that Desecrate II was active, there were two failed hard drives, and one which wasn't detected. Even though both were resolved, this wasn't a good look for OVH and it was decided to abandon them for now. This machine was also half the monthly rental cost. Additionally, the memory headroom on Desecrate was never fully utilized and 16GB is enough.