May 13 2005
more hardware
In the two years that I’ve been running delicious, I’ve had to move the site to bigger and faster hardware every few months as it grew. Originally it ran on a little celeron machine that I use for all my various projects, and just a few months later, it moved to a very, very loud dual Xeon IBM intellistation, where it was happy for a while. unfortunately, I had chosen to go with FreeBSD 4, which caused a lot of problems with the MySQL backend.
In January of 2005, we moved moved to an HP sent to me by a friend, colocated in a real ISP somewhere in downtown Manhattan. I added to that an inexpensive single-CPU Dell for running apache and so on.
Once again we find ourselves out of hardware, so we have procured five new dual-Xeon servers from Dell and three new dual-Opteron machines from Sun. On Monday, we’ll be moving them to the colo facility. Hopefully in the coming weeks they’ll be online and the site will, once again, move to bigger and faster hardware.
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14 Comments
Blake West | May 13 2005 at 11:09 pm
With your new hardware muscle, you guys must be planning something big. Del.icio.us is my favorite app. I can’t wait to see what’s in store.
Mahangu | May 14 2005 at 1:35 am
Hey Josh,
It’s been great watching del. grow the way it did. I know the new colo will just mean bigger and better things. :)
Jason Perkins | May 14 2005 at 1:46 am
Very nice of you to include a link to a much larger image of that beautiful hardware!
syne | May 14 2005 at 4:04 am
Thanks to you all, guys, and good luck with that new techstuff.
Markus | May 14 2005 at 11:03 am
Hardware-pron!
Ben | May 14 2005 at 9:24 pm
Shiny!
mkb | May 15 2005 at 1:14 am
I’d love to see more details on the trouble you had with MySQL on FreeBSD 4. What OS are you using now?
Anil | May 15 2005 at 10:29 pm
Nice ah!
Noam | May 16 2005 at 9:21 am
Mazl-Tov!
Austin | May 17 2005 at 4:35 pm
Awesome.
Mush | May 18 2005 at 10:09 am
Already labeled and everything!
Philipp Keller | May 27 2005 at 7:18 am
Yes! Seems like the new servers are running. Site is MUCH faster now..
boris | May 28 2005 at 2:45 am
Are you running on Solaris 10 ?
Salman | Dec 17 2005 at 3:59 pm
How about a chart that tracks your cpu count? I’m sure Y! is increasing the cpu power just a ‘tad’.