#server technology

[servermo]

The Future of Dedicated Servers in 2024

In 2024, dedicated servers are evolving rapidly with innovations in security, AI, edge computing, and sustainability. Here’s a glimpse of the top trends:

Enhanced Security: Advanced encryption and multi-factor authentication are essential to protect sensitive data from increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.

AI-Powered Performance: Artificial intelligence is optimizing server performance, with predictive maintenance reducing downtime and improving security by detecting new threats in real time.

Edge Computing: By processing data closer to its source, edge computing reduces latency, boosts efficiency, and supports real-time applications like IoT and self-driving cars.

Sustainable Hosting: Data centers are shifting to renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies, helping reduce carbon footprints and promote environmental sustainability.

Customization & Flexibility: Businesses now demand dedicated servers that are easily customizable, especially with hybrid cloud solutions and edge computing integration.

At ServerMO, we’re ahead of the curve, offering cutting-edge solutions to keep your business secure, efficient, and sustainable in 2024. Get ready for the future with dedicated servers that grow with you!

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The Evolution and Impact of Supercomputers and Servers in the Modern World

Introduction Supercomputers represent the pinnacle of computational power, evolving from massive, room-sized machines to sleek, compact devices with immense processing capabilities. These advancements have drastically transformed scientific research, industry, and even daily life. In parallel, server technology has undergone a rapid evolution, supporting the backbone of global networks and data…

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if you interact with Jenessica you will be reassigned to the JAR.

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Sweet reward for obeying commands

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Fuckable Object #1 Apple Xserve (2002 - 2011) and Xserve RAID (2003 - 2008)

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i don't want to sound like a doomer but even though the milestone of 40% renewable/"clean" energy generation was reached last year, emissions also reached an all-time high, 4% higher than ever before. this is allegedly due to the increased demand for air conditioning as the temperature of the planet rises. the new clean energy production mostly covered the cost of demand for new technology demand like LLM AI's use of power. i'm not saying AC is bad. the point is that new power is being generated for new demand while extant demand (and then some) is still being provided by the same source of power: fossil fuels. the goal can't just be adding newer greener power, it has to be about removing the sources of power causing emissions and fundamentally removing the option to continue increasing emissions as well.

it is projected that the production of "cleaner" electricity will outpace this increased demand -- for air conditioning, at least. cooling/ac also only accounts for 3% of total co2 emissions; heating actually causes far more emissions.

refrigerant emissions do not come anywhere near where they'd need to be to reach the level of emissions heating produces, also..

heat is direct energy demand because heat is literally energy. cooling is the use of energy to push air through a refrigerant system, causing a chemical interaction that reduces the total energy (heat) of the air as it's expelled back out of the unit -- meaning that it is using heat (and energy) indirectly to moderate temperature. heating can also frequently come from direct burning of fuel, which produces co2 by its very nature. you would literally do more on a personal level by never taking a hot shower again than turning off your ac, but personal lifestyle changes have limited effect anyway.

there are a lot of factors going into every statistic that makes even attempting to understand climate change confusing and depressing to read. they are all important, though. the most important one is emissions. we are making cleaner energy to reduce emissions. if we have failed to reduce emissions then it has not accomplished that goal.

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QUESTION THREE:

If servers take up so much space, then does the warehouse they’re in just have to be Big Enough or can you wire servers together over multiple floors with long enough cables? Does this impact processing time? With huge server systems like Google, do they even HAVE an access point or a central node or is it just one, MASSIVE conglomeration of processing power?? Are there different types of cable for different purposes of what the servers are doing?? Im going insane. Madam I’ve been struck with The Ailment (ADHD)

OK! This one is really interesting because it's the reason why I don't believe that the Circus is abandoned. I mean that in the way that if TADC is following any kind of realistic standards, then the physical hardware behind the circus can't be just tucked away in an abandoned building somewhere. The demands for power and cooling are high. Even if we assume that automated systems take care of that, hardware WILL fail over years of operation.

(Sorry this took so long) Once again, long post under cut

Have you ever seen Google go down? Maybe Youtube? In the past when they were a small website, sure, but not anymore. If you can make a connection, then you will be able to reach those servers. I assume that the circus has a similar setup, as No matter what, there is a digital space for the humans to occupy. That means that there is ZERO downtime.

But these devises live in the real world, connected to the very real power grid. How can they be powered 24/7? A bad storm hits the area and a tree takes out the power lines, do all of the websites hosted on those servers have to wait the hours, possibly days for that line to be fixed? Nope! These centers advertise 24/7 service and they mean it. What this means is that typically, they will have ON SITE generators that can run the ENTIRE center at a moments notice. Some even have an extra generator on standby in case one of the generators malfunction. Redundancy is the name of the game. If something is essential to function, then there WILL be an exact copy on site as a backup. That is why these big websites never go down for service, there is ALWAYS something available to connect to.

But what most people don't realize is the water requirements. Have you ever seen the statistic that chatGPT consumes like 2-3 THOUSAND liters of water every day? And thought, why the fuck does a computer need water? Isn’t water a bad thing for computers? But water has a very useful ability in the way that it handles heat. It’s the same way how your sweat evaporating cools you off. Think of cooling as just removing the heat instead of actually making cold. So water is used in the cooling of these data centers, which is to say, water is used as the refrigerant. It’s a similar concept to how your fridge works, except the refrigerant is lost over time. The water is allowed to evaporate and leave the building because it makes for more efficient cooling. Here’s a video that goes more into detail about water loss cooling for data centers specifically.

As for the actual building, data centers with multiple floors do exist! The reason one may be a single story has more to do with the cost of land vs the cost to build a building with multiple floors that can support the weight of all of those machines. If land cost more than the steel and concrete needed for multiple floors, then. yes, the shorter the cable the more efficient the data transfer, but the time loss is so short that it’s pretty much unnoticeable to the human eye. Some places also standardize their wire lengths, so every server gets the same load time regardless of the actual placement of the server.

But the people who care about that are insane stock traders (not gamers believe it or not) and advancements have made it so that time delay only starts to matter when a cable reaches miles long in length. And those advancements are Fiber Optics! Fiber being literal fibers (either glass or plastic) and Optics as in lenses or reflection. This is because fiber optic cables carry light instead of electricity. Because light is fast as fuck. So then where does the delay come from? Turns out even with the most reflective, chemically perfect fibers, light scatters and eventually data is lost. So repeaters are put in to repeat the input signal, refreshing it. But these repeaters aren’t perfect, so lag is eventually introduced, so modern fiber optics use amplifiers. Amplifiers strengthen the original signal instead of repeating it, making for faster transfers of days.

But you want to know about how these things are wired in terms of electricity! How these things can fit so much electricity in one building? The answer is industrial grade wiring! It's different from the power cables that you find in your house. Well, the wires themselves may be the same, the difference comes in at the fuse box. Here’s a lady plugging all of the wires in a house into the fuse box. The box itself is then plugged into the power line, which provides the electricity. Multiple lines or higher gauge lines will be ran from the power plant to the data center. The exact set up depends on where the data center is in relation to the power plant, who’s building it, and state laws.

Also, for industrial wiring, they usually run the wires through metal pipes instead of letting the wires sit against the insulation. Here’s a guy who wired his house like this. He doesn’t go into detail about what everything means but you don’t need to know all of that to appreciate the pipe work. If you want me to go into electricity as a form of power and the different phases of AC... I'm going to be honest just call me on discord so I can get out the whiteboard. I will give you a whole college grade lecture about how electricity works.

Servers don't have a central node, their operation and purpose is different from computer clusters. While each unit is wired together in a cabinet, each unit operates as it's own individual machine. So, a computer cluster will be spreading one load over multiple machines, a server takes many small loads (<- terrible oversimplification but it works). Everything around it exists to route the right requests to it, power it, cool it, and monitor its operation. But they do have access points! As in, you can connect to it directly or use SSH shell to remotely connect to it. SSH shell is just a secure way to connect to the server, as a maintenance level of access is usually not something that you want anyone to be able to pick up on.

Last but not least, YES! There are many different kinds of cables made for different tasks! Or just to be cheap. The more you get into engineering the more you realize half the shit that we do is because it's the cheapest option that still meets requirements! I left some interesting videos in the bottom of this if you are really curious, but I honestly think that figuring out the exact wires is getting a little too into the weeds for this.

So, to summarize, data centers need generators, water for cooling, and have spare copies of pretty much everything. That’s why it’s so god damn rare to see big websites like google docs down but Ao3 goes down every now and then. He's a bunch of helpful videos that I uses when writing this.

Why the Internet Is Running Out of Electricity

I Can't BELIEVE They Let Me in Here!

Data Center Cooling

How Does LIGHT Carry Data? - Fiber Optics Explained

fiber optic cables (what you NEED to know)

What Ethernet Cable to Use? Cat5? Cat6? Cat7?

How I wired my house.

How I wire a panel (an in-depth tutorial)

Troubleshooting an outlet (interesting video)

Computer science slander

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slime, mariana, codeflippa, juanaflippa, and tilin all made it off the island together and are now causing mayhem in the world at large as a family. roier and cellbit and jaiden and bobby and richas are there also. and they’re all happy and healthy and smiling. this is real trust me 👍

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Choosing the Perfect Server CPU for 2024: Your Guide to Power and Performance ⚡🧠

Determine the Workload 🖥️ Choose based on what your server will do—light tasks like hosting websites 🌐 or heavy tasks like video editing 🎥.

Check Core Count & Threads 🧠 More cores = better multitasking! Choose CPUs with multiple cores and threads for smoother performance 🏃‍♂️.

Evaluate Speed ⚡ Higher clock speeds = faster tasks. Pick CPUs with a high GHz for quick performance 💨.

Consider Energy Efficiency 🔋 Save power and reduce costs with energy-efficient processors 🌱.

Stick to Your Budget 💸 Get the best value within your budget. Don’t overspend—there are great CPUs at every price point 💰.

Ensure Compatibility ⚙️ Make sure your CPU works well with your RAM and storage! Compatibility is key 🔑.

Think About Future Growth 🌱 Choose a CPU that can handle increased workloads in the future, for long-term scalability 🔝.

Determine the Workload 🖥️ Choose based on what your server will do—light tasks like hosting websites 🌐 or heavy tasks like video editing 🎥.

Check Core Count & Threads 🧠 More cores = better multitasking! Choose CPUs with multiple cores and threads for smoother performance 🏃‍♂️.

Evaluate Speed ⚡ Higher clock speeds = faster tasks. Pick CPUs with a high GHz for quick performance 💨.

Consider Energy Efficiency 🔋 Save power and reduce costs with energy-efficient processors 🌱.

Stick to Your Budget 💸 Get the best value within your budget. Don’t overspend—there are great CPUs at every price point 💰.

Ensure Compatibility ⚙️ Make sure your CPU works well with your RAM and storage! Compatibility is key 🔑.

Think About Future Growth 🌱 Choose a CPU that can handle increased workloads in the future, for long-term scalability 🔝.

👉 Want to learn more? Check out our server options at ServerMO🔗

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Servers are so cool.

Workstation and server hardware is much more interesting to me than gaming hardware now.

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I’m making a mastodon server on my own computer WHILE ON VACATION

Now that’s what I call a pro elite haxxor

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My favorite type of crossover fanfiction unfortunately only exists in my head, but it's essentially that everything exists in the same universe. Everything. Maybe on different planets, at different times and places, but its all the same universe

This of course presents the dilemma of trying to explain why certain differences between unrelated media can exist at the same time, ie: why Russia doesn't exist in Steven Universe, which explicitly happens on the planet Earth, but Russia DOES exist in Honkai Impact 3rd, which also explicitly happens on the planet Earth

Is this type of crossover very handwavey and vague in its world building? Yes. Is it Extremely Funny to imagine Monster High, Undertale, Monsters Inc and Lilo and Stitch all existing on the same earth and the weird political implications of that? Also yes

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DNS Demystified: Everything You Should Know for Faster Internet!

Dave explains DNS, the Domain Name System, as well as how to benchmark and optimize your own DNS.