A replacement for Linux1 is coming soon. The current Linux1 server (a Supermicro 1U server with single Pentium4 2.4GHz, 2GB of RAM and two 300GB drives in RAID1) will be replaced with a Tyan GT20 Dual Xeon 3.0 processors, 4GB of RAM and 4 drives in RAID10) . While the load on the current Linux1 server is quite small (normally under 0.10), it was never our intention to keep this server long term. The new server had already been purchased and was waiting as a spare for the need to arise. Processors, RAM and drives will be arriving for it shortly. When they do a multi-week process of configuration and burn in will begin. It will then be sent to the Dallas d.c. for fitting into the server rack. Once there and powered on, it will remain there unused for about a week to verify nothing happened during shipping. Once all of that is done, we will begin the migration of accounts from one server to the other. We’ll attempt to do the migration during the lowest usage time of the day to minimize impact. Affected customers will be getting emails regarding account moves as we get closer to the anticipated migration date with more details. We simply wanted to put this early “warning” out there as soon as possible to give as much advanced notice as we could, and keep with our company philosophy of open, direct, and sincere communication with our customers.
The anticipated migration date is around April 15th.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Either place a support ticket at http://www.lagniappeinternet.com/members/ or email me at rob -at- lagniappeinternet.com
Quick Update: The drives have been picked and ordered… This system will use 4 Western Digital Caviar RE2 ”Enterprise class” 750GB 7200RPM, 16MB Cache SATA/300 drives in RAID-10 for speed and data integrity. “RE” on these drives standing for “RAID Edition”… These drives are optimised to run in RAID configurations on servers with a Mean Time Between Failure of 1.2 million hours. For a review of these drives check out http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/review/servers_storage/western_digital/re2_wd7500ayys/220791
What WD says about these drives:
“Superior reliability – Designed and manufactured to server-class standards to provide best-in-class enterprise reliability in high duty cycle environments. With 1.2 million hours MTBF, these drives have the highest available reliability rating on a high-capacity drive. “
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