Sunday, April 01, 2007

Horray! more upgrades~

So after a lot of fighting with the first kasumi host, I decided to leave since we could get a better deal. The server was moved to FDC servers since they gave us a box for $79 and all was well for the most part. In the past two weeks, though, FDC has been breaking it self by either blowing up a router, or hosting some large ddos targets that they refuse to remove.

Because of this, we simply got tired of it and decided to finally put the box with someone would would be willing to give us a killer SLA (100% SLA on network & power), AlphaRed. The box was even cheaper than FDC by an additional $20/mo, but also gave us much better routes (Time Warner/Global Crossing/Level 3). On top of this, we finally have a IPv6 supported server.

For those that wish to play around with IPv6, maybe connect to:

2610:138:2:e0:250:8dff:fe30:3f07

It's still in very early testing, but seems to be working just fine.

This, coupled with all the upgrades we've done with the webservers, we've been able to bring our total operating costs down another $300+ /mo :-) I think it's safe to say that DA and all its sub-projects are finally in the black! Quite the accomplishment, considering that this time last year we were still running upwards of $2500/mo. I figure our current costs are in the area of $500 - $600/mo to operate everything.

On top of this, we finally have a stable sorata! Hurray! Our old friend Azuretek was able to sponsor 1U of colocation space at his new datacenter with bandwidth at no cost, meaning all we had todo was purchase a cheap server (ebay) and be golden! So, we did that.

So, for $200 one time, we cut our costs by a badass $80/mo - meaning the hardware breaks even in only 3 months - sounds good to me! I'd like to thank Azuretek & NetRiver for the colocation and helping DA become stronger!

~Francisco

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