[Benchmarking] Test System Specs

[Jeff McKenna]

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> The only glitch is that this server is a lemon, it suffers from an 
> intermittent (hardware?) problem that prevents us from using it in 
> production, but it can run smoothly for weeks before crashing, even if 
> you make it work really hard, and the supplier could never reproduce/fix 
> the issue so we're stuck with it. It could be perfect for this kind of 
> benchmarking if I can get it back here, we'd make it available over the 
> Net and just reboot it if/when it crashes.
> 

And the other option (instead of an EC2 cloud or maintaining the server 
ourselves) is to split the cost of a single hosted dedicated server for 
a few months.  (such as something like www.serverpronto.com)  I prefer 
this option because we'll be guaranteed the specs and don't have to 'get 
the machine' or maintain the hardware in any way.

-jeff



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Jeff McKenna
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