These are the old Hostroute servers - now with all data moved to Dual Quad Core i7s
Servers use a lot of power – to give you an idea, a typical Pentium 4-based server uses around 0.5A at 230V. Hostroute previously had sixty of these servers, so it was using in the region of 6.9KW. Multiply this up by 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and the total energy consumed by the old Hostroute systems was 60,444 KWH in a year. From a natural gas power station, that’s releasing the equivalent of 23 Tonnes of CO2 per year (based on 385g/KWH).
Over the past two months, we’ve completed the migration of approximately sixty old Pentium 4 based Hostroute servers, to brand new, Dell R610 Dual processor, Quad Core with HT systems. Each individual *core* on one of these systems has more processing power than the P4 processor used in each of the old servers. Not to mention the massive 24GB of DDR3 RAM and the super-fast RAID10 SAS drive arrays. Because of this, we’ve been able to downsize 60 old servers in to 12 of these modern behemoths, with a massive increase in performance!
Each of the modern servers uses approximately 0.8A at a moderate load – so multiplying up again for 12 servers, you get 2.2KW, which is the equivalent of 7.5 Tonnes of CO2 released, cutting the overall energy usage to a third of what it was previously.
