New Server
As you might (or might not) have noticed, this blog is a little faster than it used to be. That’s because it has been moved to a new machine, called gescheurd. The old machine, grebbehout, has reached it’s expiration date. I’ve bought a brand new Sun Fire X2100 M2 packed with the whole shebang. You know, Opteron 1222, 4GB RAM, 300GB 15K SAS RAID 1, 4x Gigabit, 24/7 4h hardware support and so on. This is the fourth M2 in our network and it has two identical twins. This triplet is the new wasda.nl web front end. The other M2 is slightly slower but boasts a whopping terabyte of storage, so it’s used to store spam and some email.
Yep, that’s right. Web front end. The databases are now all stored on the database cluster. This 32-core monster is still able to fit all the databases in RAM with room to spare. Also, most of the databases have been migrated to InnoDB. I should have done this way sooner.
This server eats bandwidth from ViaViela’s rack and happily shares three full address ranges with the company’s internet backbone. The network is powered by 3com switches by the way. Great no-nonsense hardware, and in my opinion superior to Cisco or HP alternatives.
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