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:
On Board
- 2 × Intel Xeon E5-2680
- 256 GB DDR4 RAM
- 2 × 2 TB NVMe SSD.
Plenty of horsepower at a friendly price.
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.
