Less Computers
by Dave Tufts - December 3, 2007 / 12:19pm View more articles
iMarc is growing. We're also getting rid of as many computers as we possibly can.
Today marked the end of life for our 10 year old UMAX Supermac. This computer was born in an ancient time when Apple allowed Mac clones. We used the UMAX for internal DNS processing but eventually realized that antique computers do more harm than good.
We still host about 150 of our clients' websites. We just don't host them in our own datacenter any more. We can't, nor do we want to, compete with top-tier datacenters. It's easier to get a dedicated server at ThePlanet.com and deal with the software – web files, databases, and Apache – instead of hardware, bandwidth, and redundant power.
We've replaced our T1 line with a cable modem. Consumer targeted DSL and cable far outperform our old T1 for 1/5th the cost.
Over the past three years, we've added 7 employees. During that same timespan, we've gone from 14 server-based computers down to just four – two testing web servers, a fileserver, and a backup server.
Anyone want a 10 year old Mac clone? It cost $4000 when it came out in 1996.
Today marked the end of life for our 10 year old UMAX Supermac. This computer was born in an ancient time when Apple allowed Mac clones. We used the UMAX for internal DNS processing but eventually realized that antique computers do more harm than good.
We still host about 150 of our clients' websites. We just don't host them in our own datacenter any more. We can't, nor do we want to, compete with top-tier datacenters. It's easier to get a dedicated server at ThePlanet.com and deal with the software – web files, databases, and Apache – instead of hardware, bandwidth, and redundant power.
We've replaced our T1 line with a cable modem. Consumer targeted DSL and cable far outperform our old T1 for 1/5th the cost.
Over the past three years, we've added 7 employees. During that same timespan, we've gone from 14 server-based computers down to just four – two testing web servers, a fileserver, and a backup server.
Anyone want a 10 year old Mac clone? It cost $4000 when it came out in 1996.
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I never did like the UMax clones.
(I've got a Celery-based Dell PowerEdge 350 in my basement if you want that too...)
Nonetheless, I can't say I'd really want to pay the $100 it'd take to ship that hulking beast :-)