Our Supermicro X11SBA-LN4F review - this is a great performing platform that is great for low power network appliances.
We received word that Gigabyte is launching four new Intel Xeon D motherboards based on the updated processors. Two of the motherboards have 10GbE SFP+!
We spend a lot of time, effort and money on the STH web hosting platform. Recently we saw one of the biggest performance increases ever moving to NVMe SSDs.
Although the Intel Skylake generation (or 6th generation Core architecture generation) has been generally well received, we have heard news of a new bug with the chips. The bug manifests itself using some of the higher-end AVX/ FMA3 (Fuse Multiply Add) features in the chip for scientific purposes where the chips will freeze up after some time.
Today we have a quick how-to guide on Proxmox VE's new feature: pve-zsync. The pve-zsync features allows one to take automated backups of ZFS / virtual machine volumes.
Intel Xeon E5-2670 (V1) prices are still dropping. They are now around $100 each and sometimes less. This is about half of their price just 10 weeks ago
Prediction: 2016 will start to see the rise of 10Gbase-T and Ngbase-T in smaller networks and 1 Gigabit Ethernet will no longer be fast enough for even Wi-Fi
The Supermicro X11SSZ-QF has the unique ability to pair consumer Intel Core/ Celeron/ Pentium series processors with a server grade IPMI implementation
There are quite a number of STH readers using Pingdom free & paid options. Pingdom provides a number of free tools, but their primary service is on uptime monitoring and alerting. Pingdom is significantly curtailing their free plan's features.