It’s upgrade time again… Time to retire one of the older servers. The new server is another Tyan GT24. We’ve been really pleased with them. This one will have 2 Quad Core AMD Opteron processors, 16GB of RAM, and 4x drives in RAID-10. Can’t say what size drives will be yet. At least 500GB each, likely to be 750′s or 1TB. And yes, they will be on a PERC hardware RAID controller.

The plan right now is to replace the IBM X335 server. We expect this will be sometime in September – so we don’t rush things. We’d rather see it done properly than quickly. Since all public facing servers are virtualized, downtime should be able to be measured in seconds while the VM migrates.

Robert

Robert Porter is the founder and managing member of Lagniappe Internet LLC. Robert holds multiple certifications incluging Oracle Certified Professional-Java 6 SE (OCP-J6), MCSE, A+, Net+, Project+, Security+, and multiple CIW certifications. He has been in the hosting industry for more than a decade and is founded Lagniappe Internet L.L.C. as a privately owned, completely debt free, hosting company based out of New Orleans. Robert's background includes 25+ years in programming, databases, networking and systems administration.

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