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… if you don’t stop once in a while to look at it, you’ll miss it.

So, the last few weeks have been spent installing over $100k of new hardware to support our next generation platform.

While I was in the data center, I had a chance to tour another site’s cage, and got to see what it takes to power a 800-ish ranked Alexa site. Sorry for the poor quality pictures, I wasn’t exactly taking them with position:

I won’t name names, but that appears to be around $2 million worth of hardware. And according to the contractor I talked to, they have dual gigabit fiber connections to the Level(3) network. I can’t imagine how much money that bandwidth must cost.

Oh, I have pics from our new cluster… e-mail me if you want a link.

Finally, I know I have been lax in updating my blog.  Long story there, too.  If you want / need details, let me know.

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