Toys For The Pixies

With the technology and market changes over the past year - the arrival of cheap and super-fast quad-core systems, and Softlayer's cheaper bandwidth pricing and bandwidth pooling options - my existing strategy of multiple small servers has become less attractive.  And Softlayer are running a special this week that delivers an extra 2GB of memory free on their mid-sized servers.

So I'm going to be smooshing the three current mu.nu servers down to one.  I can do this safely because with Minx I can fall back to the mee.nu servers to keep things running - mu.nu users will lose CPanel access while I restore things, but many people don't use CPanel, and their blogs will still work.

Now, if I'm going to smoosh three servers onto one, I'm going to want a fairly large box.  Say, something like this:

top - 03:19:56 up  4:58,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 122 total,   1 running, 121 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  :  0.0% us,  0.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 100.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Cpu1  :  0.0% us,  0.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 100.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Cpu2  :  0.0% us,  0.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 100.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Cpu3  :  0.0% us,  0.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 100.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   6231080k total,  1116328k used,  5114752k free,    88976k buffers
Swap:  2096440k total,        0k used,  2096440k free,   776044k cached

Fortunately, that's exactly what I have.

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