New Server Maybe Incoming

Looking at a couple of options.  Not going straight for the 3960X given the terrible exchange rates at the moment, but a 3700X with 128GB 64GB of RAM and 5TB 3.2TB of NVMe SSD is possible.

Update: They ran out of the drives that would have given me the 5TB configuration, and 128GB is a bit expensive if I want ECC (which I do).  This configuration is still faster, has more SSD, and nearly as much RAM as all three current servers combined.  Oh, and costs much, much less.

I still need to figure out how to get the networking right for CPanel under LXC.  I think I know, now.

It doesn't need to be my dream config because they have similar pricing on different configs every week.  The reason they're cheap is the same reason the config I wanted isn't available: They buy bulk lots of new-in-box but superseded enterprise components at about 25% of retail price, and when they're gone, they're gone.

At my day job we just deployed 48TB of MLC SSD with the same hosting company for surprisingly little cost - but that drive model launched at the end of 2016.

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