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Quite a few people keep nagging me for pictures of my ServBoard, so I decided to finally post some info and pictures on this blog for all to see.

First a little history. The ServBoard was originally thought of as a joke. While helping a friend out with moving his stuff to a new house, I had to carry a ironing board and we all joked about it being a surf board. The obvious joke then will be to call it a ServBoard, and the idea was born.

Another friend, who does like hardware (unlike me), thought it would be really funny to create a ServBoard and started throwing together old hardware, and mounted it on the back of the ironing board. When he was done, I was called in to throw some OS on it, and FreeBSD being my favorite server OS, FreeBSD it was going to be.

The server had a little uptime, but no use, so it collected dust in the corner of my old apartment.

Then my "real" server crashed and I needed to upgrade the motherboard. Because it was offline for so long already, I wanted to get it up as soon as possible, and bought a new motherboard. But ... as usually, I bought the wrong hardware, for this motherboard would never fit in the small PC case I had. The only option to get things running, was to dust off the ServBoard, and put the new hardware on there.

Ever since, it didn't fail me (not counting the loose HDD cable).

Here are some specs (yes, it's not a great server, but it works!)

And then, finally, the pictures!

ServBoard