Journal tomhudson's Journal: Barbie has a new toy at work ... 5
Well, we're finally going to start migrating accounts from our vps and a few other servers to our new dedicated server.
- Core 2 duo, 2.9ghz
- 4 gigs ram
- RAID 1 of 2 x 1TB sata2 hard drives
- 100 mpbs connection
- 10 TB/m bandwidth
- root access for me, cpanel for everyone else
- 5 ip addresses
- CentOS
- remote boot
We could have gone for a quad core and 8 gigs, but I don't think we need it just yet.
Hopefully we'll be able to convince a few of the customers who are on other servers to migrate - managing logins and passwords for so many places is a real PITA.
Glory basking time? (Score:2)
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Burn it in first (Score:2)
Burn that baby in before you put real production load on it. Please trust my experience with new hardware. Exercise every memory block in that RAM multiple times, peg the CPU for a couple minutes and keep an eye on the CPU temperature and dump a bunch of /dev/random into a few thousand files spewed across multiple portions of the filesystem. Finding the possible low hanging fruit of hardware failures before it becomes a production problem is worth every bit of the effort. Remember your hell with multipl
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idk, if this is coming from some place like Dell or HP, I might trust it, depends on the specs. HP does that for you if the server is rigged enough, their diagnostics put a full load on the CPU/RAM (and by inheritance, the rest of the basic subsystems that deal with CPU/RAM) but not the hard drives for up to 24 hours before shipping. On average it's 6-8 hours of dedicated testing.
So if it came completely prebuilt from a big shop, I would trust it...