Whee!

I've had a couple of glitches with mee.nu and the mu.nu beta site over the last couple of weeks when updates didn't go quite as planned. I have a development environment here at Pixy Central, but updates go straight from development to deployment, with nothing in between.  I'd been thinking of getting a new PC or two, so I specced out a staging/test server, and lo, it was cheap.  And then I added a faster CPU and more memory and disk, and lo, it was still cheap.  And then I realised that if I added even more memory, it would still be cheap, and I could run VMWare Server or OpenVZ and use the one box as my development, staging, test, and experimental server all at once.

Between the rising Aussie dollar and generally falling prices, I'm looking at $1000 for a system that's more than twice as fast and has twice as much memory as anything I have now.  That will let me run six or eight virtual environments, so I can have everything live at all times.

Since I say farewell to Haruhi after Tuesday - that's my computer at my old job, and my support contract with them essentially finishes then - this will be the new Haruhi.  And the virtual environments will be Kyon, Mikuru, Yuki, Itsuki, um, Ryoko, Tsuruya, Kyon's two friends - does Kyon's little sister actually have a name?

If it turns out I need a little more power or memory, I can just buy a second one; gigabit ethernet is plenty fast enough as an interconnect for this.  I'm not going to buy eight servers just because I need eight servers, but I can certainly buy two.  The only hard part would be coming up with a matching naming scheme...

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