OT - What kind of hardware/bandwidth is MGoBlog running on now?

Submitted by MGoArchive on

This will illicit many fun responses, but I am curious what kind of hardware/platform MGoBlog is running on now. I know we have readers here that work at Amazon AWS, Google GCE

It looks like the blog is now hosted by these guys - https://www.nexcess.net/

Based on the article on their front page mentioning Human Element (the people helping the MGoBlog crew with the Drupal 8 migration).

Seems like the datacenter is run out of Southfield? - https://hostadvice.com/hosting-company/nexcess-reviews/

So, yeah. What kind of hardware was MGoBlog running on, and what kind of hardware is it running on now?

BornInAA

August 25th, 2017 at 8:03 PM ^

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johnthesavage

August 25th, 2017 at 10:42 PM ^

If Amazon were starting today, they'd probably just roll their site on AWS and save the trouble of worrying about infra. It's cheap and user-friendly and ultra-reliable and scalable and all that good stuff.

BlueMan80

August 25th, 2017 at 11:04 PM ^

Time consuming process because they had to take all the code a punch new cards on IBM 029 keypunches. Working late at night, a disastrous card deck dropping incident occurred. Took days to reassemble the deck. Many "welcome to your Drupal website" incidents later, the 1200 boxes of cards were successfully read. There was much rejoicing.

UserAbuser

August 14th, 2020 at 5:42 AM ^

I don't know too much about hardware or a platform that MGoBlog using, but I heard that they are using a cloud for correctly organizing the work of the website. To be honest, I believe that it is a great decision for business companies. Such cloud app development services can help you to make your productivity increase. Think about it, it is the future.