Moved to new hardware
So over the past few days, I've moved my websites to new hardware. I got a used Sun Enterprise 420r and decided it was time. Pretty nice box: 4 UltraSPARC II processors at 450Mhz each, 1 Gig of RAM, and 72 GB of drive space. Of course it's running my favorite server operating system - FreeBSD. I considered and even tried to install Solaris 10 but it was being a PITA so I threw my hands up and just downloaded the FreeBSD ISO instead. In the process, I've learned how to move a site and minimize the impact of doing so (not that I have a heavily trafficed site anyways). For the curious, my old hardware was a PIII 800 with 512 MB RAM and 160 GB of drive space. If the day ever comes that I need more space I can always pop in another drive. I don't see that happening soon though.
July 22nd, 2008 - 15:42
Hey,
Looks like you’re moving on up now? How do you like the new hardware? How much of a load did you have on the old stuff?
Ryan House
http://www.RyanJHouse.com
July 23rd, 2008 - 19:39
Didn’t have too bad a load. Mostly wanted to move to a SPARC-based system to learn a new platform and because I got a great deal on the box. I also swoon over SMP systems. This thing is a beast!