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Eight cores, four gigs, ten raids, oh my!

Last week, I dealt with an outage of my “business-grade” Internet connection for the last time. The solution? A managed server, courtesy of SoftLayer.

For a pretty darn good price, I get full access to a dual quad-core server with 4 gigs of RAM and 500GB of usable disk space in a RAID10 array. Add in an awesome web-based control panel, an excellent sales staff (thanks, Michael!), and provisioning in less than two hours, it seems like the right decision so far.

It’ll take some time before I migrate completely to this new rig, but until then, I can enjoy the following scenery.

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Posted 07 May 2008
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  1. travis wrote:

    So Brian, will you use this just to host apps? Or are you actually going to be doing dev on it? (vs.net, etc)

    Posted 07 May 2008 at 10:14 am
  2. Chris G. wrote:

    8 core bliss.

    Posted 07 May 2008 at 10:46 am
  3. harborpirate wrote:

    Sweet. With CSFBL soon to be running on the server, the performance tab looking like that will definitely be a thing of the past.

    Posted 07 May 2008 at 8:44 pm
  4. Louis wrote:

    That’s hot! Good Luck

    Posted 12 May 2008 at 9:55 pm
  5. Mobius wrote:

    Sweet! Nice work Brian

    Posted 23 Jun 2008 at 5:45 pm

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