Box Upgrade

[[IJWTB] Thomas]

2015-2017
Hi all,

The box was recently taken offline for a few hours. The reason for the downtime is because of a VDS upgrade. NFO is currently holding a spring sale for their VDS packages, so I took advantage of it just before the next payment was due. For only a few dollars more than the current payment I was able to essentially double up the box's hardware.

The table below shows the comparison between what IJWTB was running on prior to today and what it is currently running on.

(The table plugin needs to be replaced or modified, so give me a sec)

Old Box	New Box	Difference
3 cores	6 cores	2x more cores
300 GB HDD	600 GB HDD	2x more space
6 TB bandwidth (monthly)	24 TB bandwidth (monthly)	4x more bandwidth
6 GB RAM (3 base + 3 extra)	6 GB RAM (base)	Unchanged
$52.99 (monthly)	$59.99 (monthly)	$7.00 more monthly
$635.88 (yearly)	$719.88 (yearly)	$84.00 more yearly

[[IJWTB] Thomas]

2017 - 2019
Looks like I forgot to include a post when we switched from the VDS above to our previous dedicated machine.
Anyway, we've since switched from an older Xeon E3-1270 to a new E3-1270v5 due to the database corruption. The specs are listed before and give us a huge boost in read/write speed and cache space.

Old Box (E3-1270)	New Box (E3-1270v5)	Difference
4 cores (+4 HT) @ 3.4 GHz	4 cores (+4 HT) @ 3.6 GHz	+0.2 GHz per core
1 TB HDD @ 7200 RPM	1 TB SSD	Faster read/write from solid state
30 TB bandwidth	40 TB bandwidth	+10 TB extra bandwidth
16 GB DDR3 1333 MHz RAM	64 GB DDR4 2133 MHz RAM	4x more RAM, latest gen, +800 MHz
$142.98 (monthly)	$189.99 (monthly)	$47.01 (1.32x) more
$1,715.76 (yearly)	$2,279.88 (yearly)	$564.12 (1.32x) more

[[IJWTB] Thomas]

January 2020
We've moved locations and IPs to a slightly upgraded box. I've also put down $99 up front to reduce the monthly cost, so the new server costs less than the old server.