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Thoughts on capacity planning and web operations.

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Entries from August 2007

Making a site faster by removing machines

August 20th, 2007 · 4 Comments

(well, not really)
A little while ago, in one of our clusters we replaced a boatload of PowerEdge 1425 webserver-class boxes with a much smaller number of HP DL145 G3 quad-core boxes, getting the same amount of oomph from 1/3 the boxes. Not too bad.

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