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title: Case In Point
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content_type: journal
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date_pub: 2023-08-06T13:01:00-04:00
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description: A short post about the recent site outage and the new fan I acquired for the server.
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tags: computers web server devops
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Last Sunday evening, quite out of the blue, the web server that hosts this site started making a horrible whining noise. A quick finger-check determined it was the fan making the noise. I tried to clean the unit (and the Pi4 beneath it) with some compressed air, but alas, the damage to the fan had been done.
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Thanks to the magical delivery gnomes, a replacement case arrived the very next day (well, technically it was the following night, which was unfortunately about 2 hours too late for Monday Night's session of [Planar Vagabond](http://www.planarvagabond.com/), but close enough). So, Tuesday morning, I started swapping the old case for the new one, and 15 minutes later, it was back online.
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After some looking around, I went with a ["ICE Tower Cooler" by GeeekPi](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07V35SXMC?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details). It was relatively inexpensive, easy enough to put together, and the LED in the fan adds a distinctive, #cyberpunk vibe to the machine (particularly compared to the somewhat professional-but-pedestrian original case).
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