[BLU/Officers] New server

[John Abreau]

After the new server is operational, I plan to wipe and rebuild the two
current servers to have available as hot spares for disaster recovery.



On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

> Since our current servers are pretty old, John and I decided to buy a
> new server and  a couple of 4TB drives. The unit is a Supermicro 2U
> Server X7QCE 4x Intel Xeon E7450 2.4ghz 24 Cores / 24gb / 2x 1tb
> Not 100% sure what OS John is planning, but hopefully CentOS 7. where we
> can use either dockers or boxes for VMs. Actually 2 4TB drives cost more
> than the server.
>
> Since we have some money in the treasury and since much of our services
> are delivered online, this should be a prudent investment. I'm sure that
> the day after John brings this to Earthlink, they will give us the
> virtual machines they offered us 2 years ago.
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