Pipi Data Centre Operational

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25/02/2026

Pipi Data Centre Operational

By: Mike Peters
On a Sandy Beach: 25/02/2026

Mike is the inventor and architect of Pipi and the founder of Ajabbi.

The long-planned migration of Pipi 9 to its own data centre has been completed. It took 2 weeks to execute. The existing setup was split into an office network connected to the internet and an isolated data centre that is not connected to the internet.

Starting from zero

The initial data centre consists of a single 45U rack and some other shelving, with mainly older equipment. It will do for a start and can grow as more racks are added, equipment upgraded, and more servers are added, etc.

External hard drives used in the shift

Issues

  • Terabytes of data on backup hard drives to shift
  • Clean reinstalls of many operating systems
  • 14 machines to configure
  • Adobe CS4 does not like Windows 11
  • Making do with what is available now
  • Go slow, think twice and get there faster

Opportunities

  • Pipi can now run 24x7x365
  • All systems can be turned on using multiple servers
  • DevOps automation is now possible
  • The development cycle will speed up 10x
  • The road to Pipi 10 is now open

Whats next

  • Seat-of-the-pants experimenting to tune the setup
  • Stress test to build resiliance and reliability

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