Ian found the need to create a backup / test web server, whilst he was making some minor changes to this website, there was a problem that necessitated a partial rebuild and restore of it. So rather than go through that again, he made the decision to have a spare to ‘tinker’ with, so we will detail the hardware used and reasons. The addition of a second web server meant that a reverse proxy would be required. We posted about this here.
Hardware used in backup server
Normally, Ian would have gone for a 2.5 inch SSD, though he wanted to try out a NVMe M.2 device, so he chose the above Samsung device, if he had decided to go the 2.5 inch SSD route it would have been a comparable price for 500 Gb of storage.