Let’s talk hardware! I’m an infrastructure guy so it’s only fitting that this is covered. The various parts of tkrn.io is hosted on a Dell PowerEdge R730xd which is front-ended by CloudFlare’s WAF which is then plumbed into Traefik which then connects the various Docker-based services which are hosted around here.
To limit power consumption, I opted for a single socket processor but if it’s ever required I’ll drop in the matched processor to double my cores. In addition, I’m running high-voltage 200-240v power supplies which gives me the most power efficiency even with minimal loads (90% eff @ 10% load). Let’s face it, power consumption is only rising with electric cars, GPU-powered AI infrastructure along with other demands for power.
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Hardware Specifications:
- 1x Intel E5-2697A v4 – 16-core 2.6Ghz, Turbo 3.6Ghz
- 128GB DDR4 Memory
- 2x SATA 960GB SSD for Ubuntu (ZFS on Root)
- ~40TiB of SAS Read Intensive SSD (ZFS – Raid2z) for Data
- Intel x710 rNDC – 2x 10GB SFP+, 2x 1GB Copper
… more to come but that’s it for now.