Category Archives: Hardware

Worklog - New server, SSD, Redis, Amazon S3 bills, Google Analytics API

Most of the stuff that happens during a week at work is too long for Twitter and too short for a blog post. There are still things that I’d like to share, so I thought I’d try batching them up.

New Database Server

We made our first hardware purchase of 2009 - a new database server from Silicon […]

New Database Server

Well, I installed our new database server last night and so far things are looking good. The new box has way faster disks (4 SAS disks that are RAID10′d) and 32 GB of memory. You can’t scale up a database forever, but now I’ll actually be able to see through the smoke and tune […]

Moving out of the living room

First post. It seems like a little overview of Ravelry’s network, hardware, and other systems information would be a sensible way to start things off.

In this post: VPSes, Linux, Virtualization, hosting and bandwidth, Amazon S3

a starter home

If you are thinking about embarking on a web development project, I’d highly recommend that you find a […]