New firewall, new Ethernet switch, improved remote troubleshooting

Good news at the datacenter that the Weblogs.us servers call home 🙂 JD made a trip down to Tulsa and : +replaced a failed firewall with a brand new one (roughly 6x more powerful!) +upgraded one of our Ethernet switches to the latest and greatest +installed the replacement KVM setup so we have better remote… Continue reading New firewall, new Ethernet switch, improved remote troubleshooting

16GB additional memory for Dell PowerEdge 1950 1U server

We just received 16GB more memory for our new 1U server. The memory for the new server was kindly donated by: Kanetix.ca: travel insurance Canada Thanks guys! More memory specs: 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR2 FB-DIMM ECC Fully Buffered DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) 4x 4gb 2Rx4 pc2-5300F-555-11 240-Pin DDR2 FB-DIMM ECC Fully Buffered DDR2… Continue reading 16GB additional memory for Dell PowerEdge 1950 1U server

New hardware! 8-core Dell PowerEdge 1950

We’re very excited to have a nice new (to us) 1U server headed out way: Still deciding whether this machine will become our primary DB server, or serve as a higher-end VM server for us. Either way, in addition to this one, we have one more server in our near future and hopefully we’ll be… Continue reading New hardware! 8-core Dell PowerEdge 1950