SSDs even in RAID: So overrated

SSDs don't provide anywhere near the performance boost claimed for. Infact, in all our previous tests they eventually work as a brake! That is insane - considering we are utilizing fastest drives the market has to offer.Now we are doing final testing with bigger SSD RAID array, with 25% of space left unprovisioned, and using only ~30% of the ... Read More »

28th Oct 2013
Getting a DC running: Way harder than anyone would expect

Getting our own DC running and operational has been a daunting task, there is so many things to work on, solve and create processes for. Even as a long time hosting professional (~17 years of experience), and with some previous colocation experience, i personally never expected this kind of myriad of things to be solved.Granted, we did not take ... Read More »

28th Oct 2013
Bitcoin payments fixed

Since the upgrade bitcoin payments didn't work - the payment did not appear on our system.
This has been now fixed, and all payments since then have been manually entered into the system.

17th Oct 2013
Espoo: New storage nodes, quite a bit of hardware inbound

All 6 solo nodes are now up & running, and almost fully provisioned. Next big one has been installed, and software setup and testing is beginning. This new one will include automatic SSD storage tiering, so it will require a bit of extra testing etc. before enrolling fully in production. This storage node also ramps everything a notch or two ... Read More »

13th Oct 2013