New server almost complete

I bought (together with my brother) a new server. The old one is definitely ready for retirement: 120.000 visits, 1.600.000 pages and 50.000.000 hits (not counting frequent Google crawls, integration with SMS services and Nieuwsblad.be) for pets.be in a month was a bit too much for 1Gb RAM on a hyperthreaded processor which also runs some other websites and now my koopjeszoeker.be site which definitely needs more memory and faster disks.

The investment wasn't small, but should be worth it: 2 servers, each with 2 quad-core cpu's and 4GB RAM, all in one unit. I ordered the server on a tuesday morning and could pick it up the same evening. 3 weeks without free time later, the server is ready to be shipped from under my bed (the noise!) to the data center. Ubuntu, Varnish, Apache 2, Tomcat, MySQL, Subversion, CVS, Firehol, ... all is installed and (a little bit) tested.

Those dreaded "server busy" messages should be gone soon and koopjeszoeker.be will be ready to go out of beta! (Jay!)