Our new Xserves

Our new shiny Xserves just arrived! I think we were probably among the first who bought them, literally as soon as the Apple Store re-opened after the announcement we went online to place the order.

Using Apple’s Xserve is so easy - even if you understand nothing about servers, you don’t need to. It is the server for the rest of us. You just basically deal with a familiar Mac interface over Remote Desktop. Everything is the same as on your Mac, you log in as usual, manipulate your files as usual (what do you think, we have Path Finder installed there too :) ). Of course if you’re of the geeky type, you can still administrate it the “normal” way, as you would any other server - via ssh in Terminal.

We were waiting for this update to renew our G5 Xserves that are faithfully handling our internal purchase system, bug tracker and source code repository. Since the current Xserves are in Los Angeles, and we wanted to migrate our servers to San Francisco, we figured it would be easier to buy new ones and sell old ones (by the way, if you’re interested - drop us an email).

Here are the specs of our new babies - btw, any ideas of good server names?

• Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (8-core)
• 8GB (4 x 2GB) RAM
• 2x 1TB drives
• Dual 750W Power Supplies

Here are some pictures of them in their boxes - they are pretty heavy! We will be busy putting those beautiful beasts in their racks over the next couple of days. We will add some unpacking picts by then too.

Update: here are the beasts as installed in their racks. We chose 365 main datacenter as our new colo, this is one of the most known and professional datacenters in San Francisco, where Craigslist, Technorati, Six Apart and some other big web companies happen to host their servers too.