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 Mar 11 2005, 04:43 AM
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Manus Celer Dei  Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 16,898 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802  |
Sad as I am that Dell is getting money, I like those stats. Any chance we'll see improved forum reliability, or is that a software issue?
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Mar 11 2005, 04:58 AM
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The Ghost in our Machine Group: Retired Admins Posts: 166 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Unlisted Datastore Member No.: 52 |
Once the wrinkles are ironed out of the new system, I expect the forums to be rock solid and several times faster than they are now. How does that grab you? :)
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Mar 11 2005, 05:01 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 16,898 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Like Bobo the Love Troll :D
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Mar 11 2005, 10:28 PM
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Decker on the Threshold Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,922 Joined: 14-March 04 Member No.: 6,156 |
Hm. No RAID 5 controller? Kinda surprised about that, actually; seems like the way to go for what's essentially a file server. Guess this place isn't as busy as I was thinking. :P
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Mar 11 2005, 11:08 PM
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The Ghost in our Machine Group: Retired Admins Posts: 166 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Unlisted Datastore Member No.: 52 |
No, no RAID5. It's hard to do RAID5 with the two drives we can fit in the 1U case. :)
We have to keep the server small so as to impose the least possible amount on our free colocation service. We will be doing RAID 1 (mirroring) across the two drives however, just like we do in the current Dumpshock server. You'd be surprised at how CPU/memory intensive the Dumpshock sites are ; disk I/O has not been our bottleneck in many cases. |
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Mar 11 2005, 11:52 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 16,898 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
If you're running a webserver (very much not a fileserver) and you're hitting disk regularly, you're doing something wrong. ~J |
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Mar 12 2005, 12:07 AM
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The Ghost in our Machine Group: Retired Admins Posts: 166 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Unlisted Datastore Member No.: 52 |
A static webserver is quite a lot like a fileserver, but the majority of the Dumpshock sites (and ALL of the most popular ones) are dynamic, so you're right, very different from a basic fileserver, so Kagetenshi is very much correct.
In the grand scheme of things, Dumpshock isn't all that busy a site, but we get a fair amount of traffic -- more than can reasonably be supported by one of the inexpensive hosting plans that someone suggested before. Of course, having designed some of the largest web clusters in the world, not much seems busy in comparison. The only thing I miss about that job is the unlimited hardware budget. :) |
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Mar 12 2005, 02:26 AM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
Anybody would miss an unlimited hardware budget.
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Mar 16 2005, 01:46 PM
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The Ghost in our Machine Group: Retired Admins Posts: 166 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Unlisted Datastore Member No.: 52 |
Just a quick note by way of update: The new server should arrive today. It's on a UPS truck for delivery right now, so I expect it sometime this afternoon. Once I have it and have determined what kind of drive it has, I'll order a second hard drive for redundancy and start getting things configured. With any luck, it'll be configured and ready to be installed sometime next week.
As an aside, it's too badd FanPro didn't wait to announce SR4 until we got the new server. The forums had 2.5 times the normal traffic yesterday, and SR4 wasn't even announced until 1:00 PM. :) |
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Mar 17 2005, 12:35 AM
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The Ghost in our Machine Group: Retired Admins Posts: 166 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Unlisted Datastore Member No.: 52 |
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Mar 17 2005, 02:07 AM
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the Coke in the Machine Group: Retired Admins Posts: 128 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Cascadia Member No.: 46 |
Awww....
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Mar 17 2005, 02:06 AM
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The Ghost in our Machine Group: Retired Admins Posts: 166 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Unlisted Datastore Member No.: 52 |
Going to try to find a matching drive at a local store tomorrow instead of ordering -- shouldn't be hard since it's just a Seagate SATA 7200.7 160GB drive. Pretty standard.
Hopefully looking at late next week to get it racked up, but we'll have to wait and see. I'm pretty much buried under a mountain of work, so there's no guarantees when I'll be able to spend some quality time getting things configured. Worst case it should be racked up week after next. |
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Mar 17 2005, 03:05 AM
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Chicago Survivor Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 5,079 Joined: 28-January 04 From: Canton, GA Member No.: 6,033 |
It's so cute
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Mar 17 2005, 05:38 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 16,898 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Cute li'l feller. Not dead sexy, but very cute. What'll it be running, OS-wise? I'm assuming the same Unix variant that the current server is running?
~J |
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Mar 17 2005, 11:24 AM
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The Ghost in our Machine Group: Retired Admins Posts: 166 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Unlisted Datastore Member No.: 52 |
It'll be running Linux, quite likely Gentoo or Fedora, I can't make up my mind which just yet.
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Mar 17 2005, 03:37 PM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
FreeBSD! FreeBSD!
Heh, sorry. FBSD fanboyism coming to light... |
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Mar 17 2005, 07:05 PM
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Chicago Survivor Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 5,079 Joined: 28-January 04 From: Canton, GA Member No.: 6,033 |
Adam, is it possible for those that kicked in to by the shiney new server a chance to buy an advance copy of the SR4 core book (at, of course, normal price)?
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Mar 17 2005, 07:38 PM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
Talk about wishful thinking.
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Mar 17 2005, 08:47 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,840 Joined: 24-July 02 From: Lubbock, TX Member No.: 3,024 |
I guess I will play devil's advocate and vote for Windows 2003.
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Mar 17 2005, 08:53 PM
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The Ghost in our Machine Group: Retired Admins Posts: 166 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Unlisted Datastore Member No.: 52 |
I mean this in the nicest possible way, but in response to the "Windows 2003" vote: Over my dead body.
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Mar 17 2005, 09:34 PM
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Chicago Survivor Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 5,079 Joined: 28-January 04 From: Canton, GA Member No.: 6,033 |
lol, a guy can wish.
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Mar 17 2005, 11:07 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 16,898 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Amen to that. ~J |
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Mar 17 2005, 11:13 PM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
This is Tanka, and I have approved this message. |
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Mar 18 2005, 12:43 AM
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the Coke in the Machine Group: Retired Admins Posts: 128 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Cascadia Member No.: 46 |
We reached an honorable compromise. |
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Mar 18 2005, 02:03 AM
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Resident Legionnaire Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,136 Joined: 8-August 04 From: Usually Work Member No.: 6,550 |
Hey, you never know if you don't ask. |
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