More about them Blades

Yesterday we installed the new blade centres and the new storage systems. I felt like a boy carrying around new toys. With this worm and fuzzy “Christmas eve just after opening the presents” feeling. When we arrived in the new hosting facility, looking down on the power outlet under the rack, [...]

From servers to blades

Since we started with our speaking web services about 9 years ago we have grown quite a bit. Growing from a lonely Sun Ultra 5 back in 2000 to about 50 high capacity servers of various kinds today. That’s a whole lot of servers…
Managing that number of servers is not the easiest [...]