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We acquired RackAlley.com back in September of last year which provided us with 2 data center locations in downtown Los Angeles. Hivelocity Acquires Los Angeles Solutions Provider RackAlley

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Ye. These guys sent me the pic of the server as well. Damn love HIVELOCITY! They really do care about the customer. You don’t feel like you are just a number.

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Sounds neat, you guys were cool in Tampa a long time ago, might ask for a tour and quote when I’m looking for colo down in LA sometime soon.

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We are still cool in Tampa :slight_smile:

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Heh, I mostly meant when I went down a while ago you guys were cool, no implication you weren’t still cool meant :slight_smile:

Of course Setsura. I was just playing around. Hopefully we can see you again. Did you and I meet in person? How long ago was it? Anyway, doesnt really matter. If you get to Tampa again ping me and I will buy you a beer.

You both can come to Portugal and I will buy you a beer… maybe 2… maybe 3…

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Now I want to visit Tampa.

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Nothing to be proud of, but randomly came across it on Craigslist this morning and decided at that moment I needed a home server.

DL120 G7, E3-1240, 4GB Ram, Got 2 out of 4 3.5" trays with it, dual PSU

Got it for $90. Probably grab some more ram, 2 more trays, rip out the raid card and run FreeNAS on it.

May need to disconnect a fan or two as well if I’m going to run it at home, lol.

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Had a crappy phone at the time, so pardon the quality of the pics. But here’s my home server(s) -

Specs -
1x Wiwynn SV7210 - Dual Node Server Chassis/Board
4x Intel Xeon E5-2670 (32 [64 w/ HT] cores total, 16 [32 w/ HT] per node @ 2.6GHz)
32x 4GB Hynix ECC DDR3 1333MHz RAM (64GB per node)
2x 2TB Hitachi 7200rpm 64MB-cache HDD (one per node)
2x AMD Radeon HD 6350 (one per node, just to be able to install OS’s and troubleshoot if needed. Will keep headless for the most part)
1x ELC T-1000 1000W Step Up/Down Voltage Converter Transformer

Total cost at the time was ~$600, back when the 2670’s were going for $55 a pop on ebay after Facebook revamped their gear.

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$90…be proud. I love it. What are going to use it for?

I think it was back in 2011, I’m not sure if I met you or not, I came in to ask for a quote on a full rack, I ended up going with another provider in Jacksonville though as it was closer to where I lived at the time. You guys were really nice though when I visited and I think showed me around, seeing your username reminded me of the experience. I’ve since moved to California, hence I’m looking for LA colocation at some point, and will likely keep you guys in mind for it. If I’m ever back in Florida I might come visit though :smile:

Pretty good price for that, I’m jelly.

I need something like that in EU but I cant get it for such price. I wish.

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Use case kinda depends on how cheap I can find additional ram. I want to build a FreeNAS box, and this would fit the bill just fine - but if bumping the ram is going to cost me a fortune, I’d much rather just find an older i5 or i7 box with 8-16GB and I’ve got some DDR3-1600 kicking around to add in.

Finally got a chance to share my gear. Lots of Dell
They don’t get too much use some gameservers and VM’s.

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Thats a premium IKEA shelf.

Where is the UPS?

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No UPS. I only have 1 of the servers and 1 laptop running ATM. The rest are all powered down. Everything is hooked up to their own breaker and surge protector.

We just went live with our LAX2 data center live stream. https://www.hivelocity.net/live-feed/![47%20AM|690x351](upload://pjQELtI9dSQUm0UjuGoh7IT4TAV.jpg)

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Go there and say hi to us, otherwise it’s just a GIF with blinking lights

This one cable sagging down is triggering my OCD.

Get on it, Steve! Clean it up for the webcam :stuck_out_tongue:

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