To those who are curious as to what the donations bought for this pool, and also to the geeks among us who are naturally curious about such things—if I'm not mistaken, and hopefully with his permission to post this, -ck used the money to migrate the pool to this
beast of a machine. Here are its specs:
-ck wasn't kidding when he said that the new server is "
massively overqualified for the task now." I think that that's a colossal understatement, and even more so if he went with the NVMe SSD variant.
Spot on, and yes I'm using the SSD NVMe Raid. No I don't mind it being posted as this is a community funded project so best to keep everything above board. Once the blockchain gets to over 800GB we'll outgrow it, but that doesn't look like it'll happen anytime soon, and we'll probably move to yet another new server with even more up to date hardware then, assuming this pool is still in action (which appears likely.)