The G11CD
A retired desktop, wiped and rebuilt as the estate's auxiliary node. It holds the copy of every backup that is not on the primary node, watches that node and pages the phone when it goes quiet, and drives the living-room television.
threads
4
memory
32 GB
storage
1.5 TB
graphics
GTX 1060
forwarded ports
0
Two pages carry the detail: the hardware and the services it runs.
Where it sits in the estate — the architecture view, opened on this node: what it sits on, what it carries, what it serves. Generated from the model, so it cannot drift from what is built.
Why an auxiliary node at all
A failure has to be noticed
One machine cannot report its own death. An auxiliary node, however modest, is what turns "the server is down" from a failure discovered later into a message on a phone.
A copy in another chassis
Two copies on one machine are one copy. Moving the third off the primary node cost nothing but a machine that was going to be thrown away.
Modest is the point
It does not need to run the estate, only to outlive a failure of the machine that does. Consumer hardware is adequate for that, and its being adequate is worth writing down.
Inventoried 2 September 2026 · rebuilt from Windows the same day · the estate puts it in context