At long last I've decided. I've ordered a shiny new DNUK Deskstar, desktop PC to replace
my current DNUK Workstar system which has reached the end of it's
useful life as a front line system. The new box is at least four times better
in every respect: it has four cores compared with one; 8 GiB of RAM instead of
2 GiB; ten times the hard-disk capacity (which is also faster) and a solid
state drive; hardware virtualisation and a drastically superior graphics card.
It's also a Intel based system, all my previous DNUK boxes have had AMD
processors. It will cost more money than the system it replaces, but a system
of similar price (accepting inflation) would not have been sufficiently faster
or balanced to make it worth buying.
I've also started the process of migrating this server off the current
Bytemark virtual server
onto their new BigV platform. The new system is faster, more scalable
and slightly cheaper. It also allows me a pain-free upgrade to the latest
version of Debian.
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