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Purchase either 1 or 2 (for clustery redundancy) Xen hosts to replace dodgy old x86 PCs in the machine room.

Machines to run as a Xen:

  • mussel
  • mermaid
  • mooneye
  • coolstore (currently a Xen on mermaid?)
  • possibly some of the other colo machines

There are a few possibilities for hardware. Nice Core2Duo machines can be purchased for around $1500. Sun Opteron servers are also not too ridiculously overpriced. e.g. a [http://au.sun.com/catalog/?n-state=http://catalog.sun.com/partpricing.xml?site%3dAUSTRALIAAU%26catalogue%3dFC%26segment%3dFC_R%26item%3dFC_SC_CAT%26group%3d2010%26fid%3d5154%26id%3d13773~~~G!04DC5272D891!WBPkexcnEpBE33lB~standard~ws-nocache~~@http://syndicator.sun-catalogue.com/auaustralia/australiacontext Sun x2200] with 2x dual core Opterons can be had for around $2500.