So, apparently a friend of mine that I’ve known since the old FreewebsForum days now owns 30 servers and his own DataCenter. Rich son of a b….!
Any ways, he’s on the community Team over at Tyreus Hosting and I was telling him how to log into his staff account and some how we got on the subject of servers and etc.
Anywho, here’s the conversation…
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(9:27:12 PM) Davey G: Im liking the cP Creator. Would use it but im not running WHM/cPanel on my servers.. Dang
(9:27:34 PM) Brad R: PLESK?
(9:27:57 PM) Brad R: BSD?
(9:28:14 PM) Davey G: Yep its BSD with Caucho Resin JSP/Servlets/PHP..
(9:28:28 PM) Brad R: very nice.
(9:28:35 PM) Brad R: you have more than one?
(9:28:54 PM) Davey G: Yes, 30 to be exact.
(9:29:31 PM) Brad R: hmm
(9:29:34 PM) Brad R: WHY?!
(9:29:57 PM) Davey G: Static, Backend, Frontend & Storage Servers
(9:30:16 PM) Brad R: ok thats 4 out of freaking 30
(9:30:40 PM) Davey G: The whole site is split out into the 30
(9:30:45 PM) Brad R: are all of the servers exactly the same? (server specs please)
(9:33:00 PM) Davey G: Mostly, around 20 are FreeBSD with Caucho Resin, 5 with Linux Mysql 5 are Windows Server 08 (Statix Servers) All are tunning 4GB or RAM, x2 200GB SATA Drives with 3GHz AMD Processors
(9:33:52 PM) Brad R: for about how much did this all cost?
(9:34:01 PM) Brad R: do you own a freaking datacenter?
(9:34:39 PM) Davey G: Yes, I have built a Datacenter about 5 Blocks away from me. Aroound $5.000 Years
(9:34:53 PM) Davey G: Per Year*
(9:35:45 PM) Brad R: you realize you have 12 terebytes at your disposable to do with whatever you please? 0.0
(9:36:14 PM) Davey G: Lol yes i have realized that a little
(9:36:42 PM) Brad R: screw free hosting, free dedicateds are more liek it, lol
(9:37:26 PM) Davey G: Iv moved from KwiX about 5th i think.
(9:37:53 PM) Brad R: huh?
(9:38:34 PM) Davey G: I closed my hosting account @KwiX just after i sorted out the Datacenter & so on..
(9:38:52 PM) Brad R: on April 5th?
(9:39:15 PM) Brad R: so what are your plans with this hunormo thing?
(9:39:42 PM) Davey G: Not much lol, Might host some Java/PHP based sites
(9:40:26 PM) Brad R: you should think about maybe selling a few servers, for some extra cash flow every month..
(9:41:01 PM) Davey G: Maybe but its all dedicated to D/O for now
(9:41:18 PM) Davey G: Used quite alot of space for what i have at the moment
(9:41:22 PM) Brad R: im definitely posting this convo on my blog, lol
(9:41:39 PM) Davey G: Lol, thats kewl with me
(9:41:42 PM) Brad R: well i have to go, so will talk to you later…
I was a little amazed, so, yeah, lol. 
