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Thanks for everyone's feedback on that!\n\nNow the die is cast -- \u003Cstrong>check out these sexy glamour shots of the two (soon to be three) \u003Cem>new\u003C\u002Fem> Stack Overflow servers\u003C\u002Fstrong>:\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"http:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F02\u002Fstackoverflow-lenovo-servers-overview.jpg\" alt=\"stackoverflow-lenovo-servers-overview\" \u002F>\n\nFeast your eyes on that hot, \u003Cem>sweet\u003C\u002Fem> server hardware!\n\nWe plan to have three servers for now, but we did secure a half rack at our hosting provider for future expansion, as necessary. Here's what we'll be shipping to them initially:\n\n\u003Cul>\n    \u003Cli>2 x Lenovo \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.google.com\u002Fsearch?q=lenovo+thinkserver+rs110\">ThinkServer RS110\u003C\u002Fa> 1U -- web tier\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli>1 x Lenovo \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.google.com\u002Fsearch?q=lenovo+thinkserver+rd120\">ThinkServer RD120\u003C\u002Fa> 2U -- database tier\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\nThe 1U web tier servers are modest:\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"http:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F02\u002Flenovo-rs110-overview.jpg\" alt=\"lenovo-rs110-overview\" \u002F>\n\n\u003Ctable width=\"500\">\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>1\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Lenovo ThinkServer RS110 barebones\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>$630\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>4\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>2 GB RAM 240-pin DDR2 800\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>$70\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>2\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>eBay \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.codinghorror.com\u002Fblog\u002Farchives\u002F001200.html\">drive brackets\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>$50\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>2\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>500 GB \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.newegg.com\u002FProduct\u002FProduct.aspx?Item=N82E16822136143\">datacenter hard drives\u003C\u002Fa>, mirrored\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>$160\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>1\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Intel Xeon X3360 2.83 GHz quad-core CPU\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>$350\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Ftbody>\n\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\nGrand total of \u003Cstrong>$1,260\u003C\u002Fstrong>. Plus another 10 percent for tax, shipping, and so forth.\n\nThe 2U database tier server is considerably beefier:\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"http:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F02\u002Flenovo-rd120-overview.jpg\" alt=\"lenovo-rd120-overview\" \u002F>\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"http:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F02\u002Flenovo-rd120-drive-bays.jpg\" alt=\"lenovo-rd120-drive-bays\" \u002F>\n\n\u003Ctable width=\"500\">\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>1\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Lenovo ThinkServer RD120 barebones\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>$1,490\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>12\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>2 GB RAM 240-pin DDR2 667 FB-DIMM\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>$600\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>6\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>eBay \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.codinghorror.com\u002Fblog\u002Farchives\u002F001200.html\">drive brackets\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>$150\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>6\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>500 GB \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.newegg.com\u002FProduct\u002FProduct.aspx?Item=N82E16822136143\">datacenter hard drives\u003C\u002Fa>, RAID 10\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>$480\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>2\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Intel Xeon E5420 2.5 GHz quad-core CPU\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>$700\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>1\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>aftermarket IBM heatsink for 2nd proc\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>$90\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>1\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>aftermarket IBM VRM for 2nd proc\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>$120\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Ftbody>\n\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\nGrand total of \u003Cstrong>$3,630\u003C\u002Fstrong>. Plus another 10 percent for tax, shipping, and so forth.\n\nI can sell the low-end Xeons and dinky amounts of (incorrectly sized) memory that I pulled out and replaced in every server, to defray the costs a tiny bit.\n\nSo, in a nutshell, for around \u003Cstrong>$6,000\u003C\u002Fstrong> we'll end up with the following:\n\n\u003Ctable>\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd width=\"300\">\u003Cem>Web Tier\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd width=\"300\">\u003Cem>Database Tier\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>two servers\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>one server\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>4 cores, 2.83 Ghz, 12 MB L2 cache\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>8 cores, 2.5 Ghz, 24 MB L2 cache\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>8 GB RAM\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>24 GB RAM\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>500 GB RAID 1 mirror array\n(hot-fail, cold-swap)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>500 GB RAID 10 array\n(hot-swap, up to 2 drives at once)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>dual redundant power supplies\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Ftbody>\n\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\n(I am taking to heart the comment advice I got in my \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fblog.stackoverflow.com\u002F2008\u002F12\u002Fserver-hosting-rent-vs-buy\u002F\">previous blog entry\u003C\u002Fa>; we'll be shipping multiple spare hard drives down to the hosting provider, and I added that second 1U server just as a backup in case anything weird happens. We technically didn't need two web tier servers, yet.)\n\nSure, $6,000 sounds like a lot. But if you take a typical $800 per month hosting bill for renting dedicated servers this powerful, and then cut it in half because you're no longer paying every month for servers -- we save $4,800 per year, \u003Cem>every single year!\u003C\u002Fem> This one-time investment in server hardware pays for itself in a year and a half.\n\nCompared to our \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fblog.stackoverflow.com\u002F2008\u002F04\u002Four-dedicated-server\u002F\">current two identical dedicated servers\u003C\u002Fa>, which aren't exactly chopped liver, this gives us:\n\n\u003Cul>\n    \u003Cli>1.5x the overall speed (faster CPUs, faster memory bus, more L2 cache)\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli>2x the memory on web; \u003Cem>8x\u003C\u002Fem> the memory on database\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli>larger and faster storage with bigger drives and RAID 10 option\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\nWhat this means to \u003Cem>you\u003C\u002Fem> is a \u003Cstrong>faster Stack Overflow!\u003C\u002Fstrong> As far as I'm concerned performance is a core feature; we can never be fast enough, and I'm constantly on the lookout for ways to make pages load faster.\n\nHaving these new servers in place (hopefully sometime in early-ish February) also enables us to expand, which I'll be blogging about in more detail tomorrow.\n\nImproving performance and server hardware are important skills for any company. 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