Thursday 10th April 2014: 7.47pm. Link shared: http://code.google.com/p/i7z So, the parts for my replacement cloud server finally arrived - I had to order the Supermicro X10SL7-F motherboard from the US and import it to Ireland as the only places I could find it reasonably priced in Europe were in Germany, and none of those companies would deduct VAT for my company. The X10SL7-F is quite literally the only motherboard in its niche - high end Haswell home servers - so I had little choice in the selection unfortunately (or cost actually, but in fairness it's quarter the cost of other Xeon server solutions of a similar spec). ...
The Raspberry Pi 5 looks like a great cheap colocated server solution. But only because providers special case a Raspberry Pi with extra low prices. If they only special cased anything under twenty watts with the same price, I’d be sending them an Intel N97 mini PC and avoid all this testing and hassle with the Raspberry Pi. ...
The seventh generation of my public server infrastructure has been serving this website for a few days now. It is based on colocated Raspberry Pi servers, which have been chosen due to their low power consumption and affordability. The new solution offers big gains in some areas but also has a few regressions in others. ...
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