Oo er... Stephen's jolly faithful server Rubble has been reborn as another very cool new Xserve

which is pretty busy - delivering about 1.5 Gb each day of pages and media, and around half a million pages each month - so the new performance is welcome indeed. The average visitor by the way views nearly 20 pages per visit, making this quite a "sticky" server. Thank you

and if you care about geeky things (I do) you may wish to know that thi time it has the jolly quick 64-bit Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown” 5400 series processor, which is a powerful 45-nanometer Intel Core microarchitecture processor... and thus dear old Rubble now runs flippin' quick. And its enhanced SSE4 SIMD engine handles 128-bit vector computations in a single cycle.. Plus it has 2 x 1TB serial ATA (SATA) hard drives and 3rd almost as big.. so plenty of room for stuff then, but very energy efficient this time too.

..but if you don't care about all that, it's enough to know that just like the last one, it is still very beautiful inside. Even the chips are pretty...

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