Blimey, Sun servers are cheap!
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If you've been on the UKLUG site recently, you might have noticed it's a little bit slow sometimes. Sorry about that. Sake (the server) is feeling a bit under the weather. It's a combination of Domino, XPages, Traveler, every-thing-we-run, far too many websites and not enough hardware. We're writing a worst practice right here
Anyway - that got me thinking about hardware, because that server could really do with a boost. Dan (a Bluewave guy) was talking to me about Sun servers over lunch, so I thought for a laugh I'd take a look at the specs. They *do* seem pretty cheap:
2 x AMD 2380 2.5 GHz Quad Core Processor
4 x 2 GB
4 x 146 GB 10k SAS drives
DVD/Ethernet/5 USB/ 2 PSU's/Complete remote management*
3 year next day warranty
*- ie COMPLETE KVM support down to a BIOS level. Essential seeing as our datacenter is 200 miles away from me!
All for the princely sum of : GBP2880!! Load up VMWare ESXi on that (being certified right now) and think of the possibilities! We'd easily get 4-6 production machines on that. Oh, and did I mention it's a 1U server and draws about 280W of power and would still have 4 disk slots free?
...Now, where can I get 3 grand from?
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If you've been on the UKLUG site recently, you might have noticed it's a little bit slow sometimes. Sorry about that. Sake (the server) is feeling a bit under the weather. It's a combination of Domino, XPages, Traveler, every-thing-we-run, far too many websites and not enough hardware. We're writing a worst practice right here
Anyway - that got me thinking about hardware, because that server could really do with a boost. Dan (a Bluewave guy) was talking to me about Sun servers over lunch, so I thought for a laugh I'd take a look at the specs. They *do* seem pretty cheap:
2 x AMD 2380 2.5 GHz Quad Core Processor
4 x 2 GB
4 x 146 GB 10k SAS drives
DVD/Ethernet/5 USB/ 2 PSU's/Complete remote management*
3 year next day warranty
*- ie COMPLETE KVM support down to a BIOS level. Essential seeing as our datacenter is 200 miles away from me!
All for the princely sum of : GBP2880!! Load up VMWare ESXi on that (being certified right now) and think of the possibilities! We'd easily get 4-6 production machines on that. Oh, and did I mention it's a 1U server and draws about 280W of power and would still have 4 disk slots free?
...Now, where can I get 3 grand from?
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