Recently I tried to draw attention to the servers at the processor Intel Atom. Many people greeted them with skepticism: “How can a processor for low-cost laptops to be in the server?”. Now service colocation nettop-s on Atom-ah has become a soldier, and I am ready to share with you a month of experience using the server at the Intel Atom.

Server Configuration - Nettop Acer Aspire Revo 3600 on a platform nVidia Ion, Intel Atom 330 (2 physical core, 64 bit), 4GB DDR2-800 memory (Ubuntu 64-bit only saw 3.2GB, you must turn the BIOS), SSD OCZ Vertex 30Gb. Because optimizations for SSD - Section cmontirovan with noatime, disabled access-logs off swap (need it for longer life - less entries - will last longer, all this in a separate article. By the way, the month he spent less than 0.5% of the resource SSD) .

The server was located in the company Agave - they are already the official tariff plan.
For 1000 rubles per month for unlimited traffic on our relations (it’s a little strain, particularly the foreign traffic), free KVM 1 hour per day (use it - all without any problems), reboot within 15-30 minutes of “hands”.

The results can be challenged, but the fact remains: everything works perfectly, well, very fast, lots of memory with room for growth, the absence of even a hint of brake disk or the network (at any time can be drastically start to give 10 Mb / s, ping Moscow 0.5 -4ms, 20 ms to Belarus).

But as they say «Memento mori» - your server is ever broken. Though from the mechanics of just 1 fan, you need to be ready for this. If you do not like it, you have to be content with more modest capabilities VPS. On the other hand, if that happens - you are always fully kontrolliruete situation, no one will “feed you breakfast.”

This is an excellent example of slow technical progress - even low-end solution may be the ideal solution for many problems: easy web-server, file server (even 1Gbit/sek), the distribution of static (1 Gbit / s), streaming video (1 Gbit / s) . Problems for “thick” servers certainly remain, but they have little room for them: crazy:

Personally, I am - more than pleased with the “atomic” server

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