We just bought and installed a brand new dedicated dual xeon webserver for edublogs (stuffed with RAM) - which means that edublogs is now supported by four absolutely whopping servers (the database server is a quad core woodcrest with 3×300GIG SSCI RAID disks… your data is verrry safe with us!)
Anyway, as the only time we ever hear anything about the speed of the service is when we’re having a slow patch, I thought I’d congratulate myself on halving our response times today :)
Of course the real test is when I run back to back workshops at PLC tomorrow as part of the AISICT conference that I’m keynoting in the morning
I’ve been meaning to ask. Do you guys lease a quarter rack and slot in servers when you need them? Are the boxes leased or do you buy them outright?
Lease - and currently they’re on a 4 server web cluster with a dedicated db server… all hooked up by a 25m cable :D