Just an FYI... 10 Dell blades (loaded but without RAM) and a chassis were ordered today: http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/donate.html
I'm sure it will be at least a few weeks... I don't expect to actually *have* the blades for 2 weeks (they are build to order with an estimated ship date of May 12 as of right now). Also need to order RAM, switch and load balancers too. And then probably will spend a week or so with them on my desk getting everything configured right before they get installed into the colo facility. So If all goes well, maybe the end of this month.
2 reasons... 1. it's less expensive to order it separately. 2. the largest DIMMs Dell offers is 2GB.. 6 slots per blade makes it so you can only hold 12GB max from Dell. You can use 4x4GB DIMMs and bring it up to 16GB (for less than the cost of 12GB from Dell).
It's not as cool when I think about how much it's going to cost for 160GB total (40x4GB DIMMs). 16GB in each of the 10 blades. heh
Just because I don't donate, It doesn't mean I don't want to. Calling people fuckers just because they don't donate.. well... Right now I don't have a credit card that works outside my country, paypal doesn't work in my country, if I would send 10-15$ using wu I would pay wu 15 $ just to send it. So it's too cumbersome to do it.
10 blades! :drool: Sorry, trying to focus ..... Yes, you're right. Comps are quite expensive now. But, it would be really good to have the new servers. I have been experiencing the odd downtime with DP when the site's really slow or gives an error message. Plus, I guess you need these for the free tools as well. So, do you reckon these new servers will give you really good service for a few months, few years ......??
Remember this was the "World's Most Expensive Digg" with initial estimate around $100K ... I just am looking forward to a couple of years from now when Shawn is pushing TeraBytes of traffic every hour and we'll have the "One Million Dollar DIGG!" ;-) For those that haven't donated, consider doing so here.
This server setup is so wildly overkill, I'm hoping it doesn't need to be upgraded for a LONG time. The setup should be able to handle 25,000+ http hits per second (with most being dynamic/PHP) and 100,000+ SQL queries per second when properly configured. All setup in sub-clusters for both automatic fault tolerance and load balancing (pull any blade out and nothing skips a beat).
Yea, but didn't you say that last time Shawn?!? ;-) You gotta quit writing such useful tools and having a good forum. BTW, is T0PS3O in charge of stress testing the new setup ...
While you would configure the server and move everything, would there be any downtime??? I was also wondering which hard drives would you be using??? RAID(10000RPM) or SCSI, or is there anything better available?
The drives are 146GB, 15,000 rpm, U320 SCSI (2 of those drives in each blade). http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_1855?~page=1