🎯 Dutch Mission: how we deployed new nodes in Groningen’s “green” data center

✈️ The journey

4 a.m., coffee in hand, suitcases stuffed with parts. The SpaceCore team heads to the Netherlands to beef up our infrastructure before an upcoming 20 % sale.

❓ Why Groningen?
— This DC sits on a university campus and runs 100 % on green energy; the waste heat warms nearby neighborhoods. More marketing or real ecology? What do you think?

🤖 The hardware
We installed 4 servers, each packed with:
• 2 × Intel Xeon E5-2680
• 256 GB DDR4 RAM
• 2 × 2 TB NVMe SSD

Plenty of horsepower at a friendly price 🙂

🔊 What’s inside the DC?

Open the doors, walk in — and the fans greet you at roughly 85 dB :)

🔧 Router firmware
The stock firmware on our router stumbled during setup. While everyone else was sipping coffee, we flashed an update and everything just worked. Your traffic <-> now flies as if in zero-G! Same story with the SFP+ module: a quick re-flash and fine-tune, and your servers will love it.

Half a day later, all servers were finally in place.

🚀 What this means for you
• More neighbors? Nope — VMs per node are capped.
• More resilience? Yes — RAID and hot spares FTW.
• More speed? Absolutely.

The sale has already made some noise, but the remaining servers are still waiting for your project.

👉 Try it now

While you’re thinking, the DC fans keep spinning 😁