Solutions.pro and my other websites are running on brand spanking new server after hardware failures on the previous server led me to move data over. About 10 days ago, my dedicated server started having hardware issues with the RAID array. After few hours of downtime, I found out that one of the hard drives RAID-5 array had failed and other two had bad sectors... pretty messy stuff! I had the bad harddrive replaced, the server came up (lucky!) and at that point I decided instead of backing up the data, having the raid array rebuilt / hardware replaced, I am just going to move to new server. Getting new dedicated server allowed for very little down time and I had the websites running on new server with no known hardware problems in no time.

Here is what I ended up getting at Softlayer.com.

Server Processor: Dual Processor Quad Core Xeon 5520 - 2.26GHz (Nehalem) - 2 x 8MB cache w/HT
Ram / Memory: 12 GB
Hard Drives: Four 4x 147GB Seagate Cheetah SAS 15k RPM HDs
in RAID-10 on Adapted 5404 RAID card.
Uplink Port: 100 Mbps Public & Private Networks (upgradeable to 1000Mbps)

It is a great server. I decided to take different route this time and try RAID-10 and see how it performs in comparison to RAID-5. I had couple of servers before with RAID-5 configuration and those servers had hardware issues in one form or the other. I must say, SoftLayer.com's sales really helped me get the specs I was looking for and at an affordable price. The faulty server had these specs, so its a good upgrade for my needs:

Server Processor: Dual Processor Quad Core Xeon 5430 - 2.66GHz (Harpertown) - 2 x 12MB cache
Ram / Memory: 8 GB
Disk System/HD: 4x Raptor 10k RPM HDs
First Hard Drive: 74 GB Raptor 10K -

In RAID 05 Configuration:
Second Hard Drive: 150 GB Raptor 10K
Third Hard Drive: 150 GB Raptor 10K
Fourth Hard Drive: 150 GB Raptor 10K
Disk Controller: SATA RAID 5 Disk Controller
Uplink Port: 100 Mbps Public & Private Networks (upgradeable to 1000Mbps)

I did some research online and it turns out Raptor harddrives do suffer from bad firmware issues, hence the RAID array problem with the server.

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