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Configuring LXD on an AMD EPYC server at packet.net

This is the third post in the series. A closer look at AMD EPYC baremetal servers at packet.net Booting up the AMD EPYC baremetal server at packet.net Configuring LXD on the AMD EPYC baremetal server at packet.net (this post) Benchmarking LXD on an AMD EPYC server at packet.net We have booted the AMD EPYC server …

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Booting up an AMD EPYC server at packet.net

This is the second post in the series. The first was about selecting the appropriate settings so that we can deploy a server. A closer look at AMD EPYC baremetal servers at packet.net Booting up the AMD EPYC baremetal server at packet.net (this post) Configuring LXD on the AMD EPYC baremetal server at packet.net Benchmarking …

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A closer look at AMD EPYC baremetal servers at packet.net

I have already written about the baremetal servers at packet.net in September 2017, testing them with LXD. This post is an update were I try out their new AMD EPYC baremetal servers. This post is the first of a series of posts about the AMD EPYC baremetal servers. Specifically, A closer look at AMD EPYC …

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How to set up LXD on Packet.net (baremetal servers)

Packet.net has premium baremetal servers that start at $36.50 per month for a quad-core Atom C2550 with 8GB RAM and 80GB SSD, on a 1Gbps Internet connection. On the other end of the scale, there is an option for a 24-core (two Intel CPUs) system with 256GB RAM and a total of 2.8TB SSD disk …

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