Sorta report on this servers first full day on the RE power.. well mostly..
This system not being terribly big yet but it is now powering all the connection equipment local to my place to get on the net. This includes a mini-itx setup that acts as a router/wifi.. and now a www server.
I have added stuff onto this little by little since I got the solar panels up and just the minimal it takes to make it crudely work.
The entire setup as it sits now to make the site truly run on RE has only been online together since the morning before the ap site went down its last time at the previous location. So there is no long term data or even any kind of logging equipment to officially monitor the batteries etc. I only have a crude voltage monitor circuit that kicks in a relay to turn on a grid powered charger in case the batteries get below 60% charge and only maintains somewhere between 60-80% charge, its not even accurate, but it seems to be doing its job. I had an old tractor hour timer that I put in place to see how much time it has the charger on, but that's about the best monitoring I have right now
Yesterday afternoon I noticed sometime over the night and day yesterday it had been on for a bit over an hour, likely because it rained, and was gloomy most of the previous day and yesterday, clearing a bit after 3 pm.
On that subject, it must like R.E., as it's pretty zippy today. 
That is a bit surprising, if all things at the previous "site of troubles" were to have been working as they should at least.
This moved from a massive server class system, directly connected to fiber which has very few hops to a main backbone,
To a rather low powered atom 1.6 mhz with 2gb ram (yeah tiny look up Jetway JNF92-270) if interested.
This is sitting on the end of a mesh wifi network with bit over 2 miles from the closest exchange center.
That exchange is only connected via copper, and relayed a dozen times more to get to anything that resembles the US internet backbone.
I suppose this goes to show how horrid things were (are) getting at the former site I *thought* would do so well.
Like I said before, its likely going to move again, mostly because I just don't trust that this wifi connection here is stable enough to be permanently hosting a site. I also plan to do much more work to this RE system which means that it will have to be powered down to make that happen.
Though it IS rather fun in the meantime!
