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Anvil 2
Older enterprise hardware, still fast enough for most of what a server is asked to do, at the price of the electricity it burns.
Kansas City, Missouri
- Processor
- 4 Cores
- Dual Intel® Xeon® 5150 · 2.66 GHz
- Storage
- 120 GB + 1 TB
- SSD + SATA
- Network
- 1 Gbit unmetered
- 5 usable IPv4 · /64 IPv6
What it will handle
What the specification above is worth in practice, sized against real workloads.
- Requests a second
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500
/s
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Estimate
- At 8 ms of processor time per request across 4 cores, with nothing else on the silicon.
- Monthly transfer
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324 TB
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Calculated
- A 1 Gbit port sending flat out for thirty days. A ceiling, not a quota — nobody is asked to reach it.
- Application workers
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30
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Estimate
- At 512 MB each, from 16 GB with a gigabyte held back for the system.
A sensible choice for
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Sole tenancy — no neighbours on the silicon
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Game servers and real-time workloads