Magento Godzilla Server live -

Magento Godzilla Server live

May 30, 2013/ Nick / From The NOC

Our fastest ever Magento cluster

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We have just launched our most powerful and condensed Magento cluster to date. We have nick named it ‘Godzilla’. This beast really is special with an all latest gen SSD raid ten storage and the very latest Oct Core Intel Cpu’s.
[break][/break] This beast sits in a 2u space and thanks to 100% SSD architecture we can offset the power reduction from not using traditional 15k SAS drives with the high CPU pull.
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Total dedicated power

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48 CPU Cores-Intel® Xeon® E5-2470 2.30GHz, 20M Cache, 8.0GT/s QPI, Turbo,
96 Gb Ram 1600 MHz
RAID 10, 1GB NV Cache hardware raid card
512gb Smasung 840 Pro raid ten array
540MB/sec Sequential Read
520MB/sec Sequential Write
100000 IOPS Random Read
90000 IOPS Random Write

[/tick_list] [break][/break] [break][/break] It’s amazing that we have been able to pull so much power from only a 2u space. Of course we only used the latest 12th Gen Dell Poweredge servers for this install.
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Built for speed and strength

[break][/break] We had a demanding brief: blazing fast page load and tough enough to deal with big levels of concurrency and fend of regular DDOS attacks.
We have achieved this with a mixture of Litespeed, varnish, memcache and cloudflare. All built on our tried and tested, highly secure and optimised Magebox platform.
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Images took at install time

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: Cluster on our test bench

: 80% of our servers now use SSD

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