Posts tagged ‘cpu’

New: 4GB Brightbox PLUS increased CPU on 1GB and above! 19 Jun 09

A few days ago we added a new 4GB Brightbox product to our virtual machine range. Several customers have had 4GB boxes for a while now (on special request :) – but they’re now available for anyone. The 4GB Brightbox comes with burstable dual CPU, 50GB SAN storage, 25 MySQL cluster connections and 1.6TB/month data transfer!

We’ve also changed the CPU allocation for Brightbox 1GB and 2GB products so that they now also benefit from being able to burst to 2 CPU cores – effectively doubling CPU for both products!

Previously, the Brightbox 2GB product had a single “dedicated” core but having spent some time reviewing usage stats it was clear that CPU is considerably under utilised across all of our host machines so we could be confident that no existing customers would actually lose out by this change. If you currently have a 1GB or 2GB Brightbox and want to upgrade to the new CPU allocations, raise a support ticket and we’ll arrange the config change and reboot.

Posted 19 June 2009 by Jeremy Jarvis • Comments Off

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Multi CPU beta testers wanted 27 Apr 09

We’re looking at offering multiple CPU Brightboxes and need some willing beta testers.  You need to have a Hardy Brightbox with at least 2gig of RAM (we have some secret 4gig customers out there, we’ll be offering 4gig boxes to everyone soon, don’t worry :). Not everyone is eligible – it depends on which of our clusters your box is on, but we might be able to arrange a move for you if you’re really keen.

In most cases the upgrade shouldn’t even involve any downtime, but in some we may need to upgrade your kernel which will require a reboot.  We have a number of multi CPU boxes already running with no problems, so we don’t expect any serious issues.

If you’re interested, just file a support ticket from within the control panel and someone will be in touch to arrange the free upgrade.

Posted 27 April 2009 by John Leach • 1 comment

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