Administrators Jeff Mottle Posted November 23, 2013 Administrators Share Posted November 23, 2013 Not completely 3D related, but thought some might be interested in the spec of the new server running this site. We were starting to push the old server past its limits so we had to upgrade. Last night we upgraded the main CGarchitect server managing our four virtual machines to a DELL PowerEdge R720 dual socket Hexacore Intel Xeon CPU E5-2640 @ 2.50GHz. We also added more RAM and drives. We now have 64GB of RAM and 8 - 600GB SAS 15K RPM in a RAID 10 configuration. Next year I plan on doing some site refreshes and optimizations to increase site speed, but hopefully this new server will be a bit more reliable and be a bit speedier than the last. Curious to know if anyone notices a difference. The majority of the difference will be noticed once we optimize. And now for the mind boggling part. To keep this server online with all of the other infrastructure required, costs us almost $40,000 a year! Ouch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francisco Penaloza Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Congratulations, that's great news, it is good to see this website and community growing thank you for sharing this information with us, It is good to know how much work it is involved on run a website/community of this type. Thank you for your great work Jeff. You should trow some titans in that machine ad let us use for cloud rendering Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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