Wednesday, August 15

Geek

New Server? New Server!

May have just snagged a deal on a 12-core server with 128GB RAM and 8x1TB SSDs in hardware RAID.  Older CPUs (E5-2620) but new SSDs.  And 200TB monthly bandwidth included.

Update: Yes, confirmed, deploying now.  When I'll have time to migrate everything I don't know, but that will kick some pretty serious ass.  And they give a 75% discount on these older servers for the first month so you can plan your migration without doubling your server bill.

My original plan for deploying the new system involved a server with 1TB of SSD for the databases and another with 6TB of RAID-1 disk for file storage, but this means everything can go on one server with pure SSD storage.  (There's yet another server for all the backups.)  Costs a little more, but zero worries about database growth or memory footprint.

Update Too: I looked up the specs of the E5620 CPU to check that it was what I expected, and the benchmarks were about half of what I thought they'd be.  So I was wondering if I'd bought the wrong server, then looked again, and entered E5-2620 properly and was much happier.

Update Free: I can't read.  Server has regular disks, not SSDs.  Well, good thing it's 75% off the first month.  I thought it was an awfully good deal...

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