After setting up our new Sun servers earlier in the month, we're excited to say they are now powering www.silverstripe.com and its siblings (demo, doc, userhelp). Thanks to Sam and Matt for working with me on this!
Since we've named our two new servers Ernie and Bigbird, we've dubbed their home "Sesame Street"; this being a part of a Wellington datacenter connected to Citylink.
As well as these public websites now running faster, many of our paying customers who use us for premium hosting (without their own dedicated machines) will also benefit.
In terms of speed improvements, these new Sun servers are providing an average three- to five-fold improvement over our previous hardware. (This metric, which includes network latency, is much more comprehensive and useful figure than a raw single-shot page load time in milliseconds!).
Anyone else notice the speedup of silverstripe.com at 4pm NZDT?
So far, we're cooking with gas. Ernie is having trouble even occupying one of its four CPUs (a y-axis value of 4.0 indicates a completely busy server.)
So, we're much more prepared for our next burst of traffic when profiled at Ajaxian.com ...
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Yeah, those Galaxy/x-class servers are nice machines. Especially nice is the iLOM card, which can act as a real KVM switch (and has remote CD capability too).
Posted on 25 Oct 2007 by Lancer
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