What the hell??!? (blah, blah of a wannabe alien)
This Is What Blade Servers Look Like
I’ve had a few people email me asking for a picture of the new blade servers that are going to be taking over as web/database servers for digitalpoint.com soon…
So uhm… here is what they look like right now sitting on the floor in my spare bedroom.
From top to bottom, we have a 48 port gigabit switch (there is also a rack-mounted redundant power supply for the switch that I haven’t unpacked yet), 2 load balancers (one is a hot spare), then the good stuff… a blade chassis with 10 loaded blades. Total weight… more than a quarter ton. 
I made all those stupid Ethernet cables by hand which was a pain! (okay, that’s a lie… I think Scott made one or two for me)
So what is in the blade chassis? 20 dual-core 2.8Ghz Xeon processors (112Ghz total), 120GB RAM, 20 x 146GB 15,000 rpm drives (2.9TB total). All 10 blades are running SuSE Linux Enterprise. This should be enough power to run my blog for awhile (hehe… kidding).
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about 5 years ago
impressive…
gud work…
about 5 years ago
how are you going to move a quarter ton of blade servers to the co-lo? You can’t just buy pizza and beer for you buddies…can you?
about 5 years ago
Well, I have a sweet Pathfinder to move them… and if you take the blades out of the chassis (since they just pop out), it can be manageable with 2 people (1 person really except for the empty chassis still being 150 pounds or so).
about 5 years ago
Okay, so that is what we can call ‘The Future DP’
looks like matrix stuff. Scary!!!
about 5 years ago
Nice set up!
about 5 years ago
“This should be enough power to run my blog for awhile (hehe… kidding).”
Challenge accepted
about 5 years ago
@ Johan: LOL, you’re gonna get yourself stabbed.
about 5 years ago
nice, I’m jealous. Just curious where do you colocate and how much bandwidth does dp use?
about 5 years ago
Damm..Man they are awesome they must have 99999999k unmetered bandwdith
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btw i think your blog will still go down becuase of too much visitors hehehe
about 5 years ago
Wow…Shawn, that’s impressive. Hopefully the forums will be able to hold up from now on hehe
about 5 years ago
How much did all that cost?
about 5 years ago
Barry… look here:
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/donate.html
BTW, Shawn, you’ve got brass ones man! What an undertaking both financially and mentally.
Congrats.
about 4 years ago
Wow…Shawn, that’s impressive.
about 4 years ago
Awesome Work done by you Shawn..
I Cant Imagine Bandwidth of your blog and forum.
Dilpreet
about 3 years ago
Weeee…, i like how they look, great work Shawn
about 2 years ago
Now you shifted to Dell Blade Servers. Oh great i have a small question.
Hey why you are asking people to donate money to digitalpoint although you are fetching great amount of money from digitalpoint.
about 1 year ago
That looks soooo legit! Haha, like something out of a SciFi movie.