e326Our former webserver was performing rather sluggishly so we replaced it with this bad boy. An IBM e326 powerhouse!
- Dual AMD Opteron 2ghz (dual proc. capable single installed)
- 2 GB Ram
- 15K 320UW SCSI Discs... oh yaa fully hot swappable
- Dual gigabit Nics
This machine is just kicking butt and ready for all of the upgrades we have coming down the line.
Previously we were running our three websites on a 5 year old server that was...
- 500 mhz
- 512 MB of Ram
- 40gig Ultra ATA hard drives
- Single 100base card
The difference is massive in terms of speed, reliability and outright performance. We have two other 326 servers with one of them having over 416 days of uptime. Yup that's right the server hasn't skipped a beat in over a year. That server is also one of the busiest handling all of our database requests on both Postgres and Mysql (it hosts over 10 databases that are constantly in use).
I love it when server do exactly what they are meant to do, which is work and work continuously 24x7x365.
For the geeks out in the audience this server is running Debian Linux with Apache2 as the webserver. We are a full Linux and Mac OS X shop!