[BLU/Officers] New server

[Bill Horne]

John and Jerry,

Thank you both for your work on this problem. I appreciate it.

Bill Horne

On 1/8/2015 11:31 AM, John Abreau wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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E. William Horne
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