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If you see this, you must be hitting our wonderful new webserver. As you may or may not know, due to tremendous growth over the past several months we were beginning to outgrow our previous webserver. It was a mere Cobalt RAQ4 (K63-450 / 384MB), and you crazy SMPers were taxing it at times (we served up 2.2 million pages in March).

Well, luckily as a result of your donations we now have some horsepower to spare. This machine, still with Rackshack.net, is a 1GHz Duron with 512MB of memory. This should ensure that the website loads fast and furious at all times, even during peak traffic hours.

The server seems to be running well, and I haven't noticed many configuration blips as of yet (I'm sure they'll pop up). I'd like to express my thanks to the genius MalHavoc who is always willing to lend a hand when needed. Dude, you rock. (if someone needs a unix admin, there isn't a finer one available on the planet)

Lastly, I'd like to thank you guys. Hooz and myself -hate- asking for donations to help pay the bills, but each and every time you end up surprising us both with your generosity. You all are what make this site; this community great.

[Ed - Well... 50% you and 50% me. Ok... 25% you and 75% me. Yeah.]

11/28/2001 07:08 PM: Building a better webserver by Cory
It's not really SMP-related, but I thought some of you might enjoy this new article over at Ace's Hardware about their move to a new webserver:When we first launched the new and improved Ace's Hardwar...

04/03/2001 04:25 AM: NIC Shoot-out at DSL/Cable Webserver by Hooz
Now this is something you don't see every day! What happens when you take a big stack of network cards (ranging in price from $10 - $65) and let them battle it out head to head? Well the man at DSL/...

Jim_ Administrator Posts: 3464 Joined: 2000-03-15

#14823 Posted on: 04/04/2002 01:49 PM Forums seem zippy. [url="http://www.2cpu.com"][size=1]2CPU.com[/url] - Because two are always better than one! [url="http://www.jimkirk.org"]jimkirk.org[/url] - Not a Myth any Longer. Just a Dad.[/size]

Aatos designated scapegoat Posts: 88 Joined: 2002-01-26

#14824 Posted on: 04/04/2002 01:59 PM Well, no mor timeouts for me so far :cool: 2 x Celeron 466/KP6-BS | 2 x Duron 1.2/Tiger MP | 2 x XP1700/A7M266-D

mattsteg Senior Member Posts: 990 Joined: 2000-05-07

#14825 Posted on: 04/04/2002 02:15 PM Looking good. Hello.

UberGeek SMP Newbie Posts: 4 Joined: 2001-04-21

#14826 Posted on: 04/04/2002 05:52 PM I guess we can't have everything. Looks good though! A7M266-D, 2x1800XP, 1024MB CL2.5 Crucial Reg. ECC, 2 x Seagate Barracuda IV, Plextor 40x12x40, HP DVD100j DVDRW, ATI AIW 8500DV

Rileydog SMP the only way 2B Posts: 321 Joined: 2002-02-20

#14827 Posted on: 04/04/2002 07:06 PM Loads much faster here. Yeah!!! Glad to help. Jon Tyan Typhoon PSC

bdohmen SMP Sailor Posts: 671 Joined: 2001-10-26

#14828 Posted on: 04/04/2002 08:45 PM Loads INCREDIBLY fast, I guess we never knew what we were missing! | MSI 875 Neo | P4 2.4C | 1024MB PC3200 | WD Raptor |

Hooz Administrator Posts: 2337 Joined: 2000-03-29

#14829 Posted on: 04/04/2002 10:07 PM Well, the new server brought a bunch of upgrades to the table. Not only did we get more than twice the processor speed and more memory, but we also moved from a 5400rpm IDE drive to a 7200rpm IDE drive. That in itself will make the database (and the rest of the site) faster. It's still not an ideal hosting situation for us, but for the time being, it'll do just fine. [size=1][url="http://www.2cpu.com"]2CPU.com[/url] - Because two are always better than one! Are you folding? [url="http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=3074"]2CPU.com Folding@Home Team[/url] [url="http://www.heatware.com/eval.php?id=19979"]My Heatware[/url][/size]

Big B Psychic or Psycho? Posts: 3631 Joined: 2001-07-03

#14830 Posted on: 04/04/2002 11:17 PM Ya. Running smoothly here. Hardware Forums|2CPU|My DVD's|Heatware=BigB Gigabyte NF650SLI|2GB OCZ PC6400|Pentium E 2160|GF7900GS (SLI)...XP SP2 MSI P965 Neo-F|1GB SuperTalent PC2-5300|PentiumD 920|Radeon X1650...XP SP2

nitro_fish Psychic or Psycho? Posts: 295 Joined: 2000-02-02

#14831 Posted on: 04/05/2002 01:08 AM Wow much faster now! pb Some kind of smoking silicon disaster in the making

tshen83 Psychic or Psycho? Posts: 259 Joined: 2002-04-04

#14832 Posted on: 04/05/2002 05:13 AM wow.. can you share the full specs of the server?? I am just curious... by the way I love your site...keep up the good work! System: Mobo: ECS P35T-A CPU: Q6600 Ram: 4x1GB DDR2-800 Video card: 8800GT and 8400GS OS: Linux XUbuntu 7.10 64bit

voltron Master Dualie Posts: 1254 Joined: 2000-12-22

#14833 Posted on: 04/05/2002 06:17 AM Thats pretty good. I would suspect the cpu would have been better off being a tbird or xp though. The added cache would be used much more in a websever/forum. MSI K8N Neo2-F, bios 1B | 3800 64 X2 | 2x512MB Kingston 2700 cas 2.5 unbuff | 3950U2D | 10K 70GB | ATI Radeon 800XL 256MB AGP | Viewsonic VX800 | Audigy2 | 3Com 10/100 | Mad Dog Surepower 550Watts | Windows XP Prof SP2.

Hooz Administrator Posts: 2337 Joined: 2000-03-29

#14834 Posted on: 04/05/2002 08:18 AM The machine is a 1ghz Duron with 512mb memory and a 40gb 7200rpm HDD. We have no real control over the box and its contents though, as we lease the server from our hosting provider. [size=1][url="http://www.2cpu.com"]2CPU.com[/url] - Because two are always better than one! Are you folding? [url="http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=3074"]2CPU.com Folding@Home Team[/url] [url="http://www.heatware.com/eval.php?id=19979"]My Heatware[/url][/size]

bascheew He who rarely posts. Posts: 24 Joined: 2001-05-11

#14835 Posted on: 04/05/2002 12:37 PM Question... Why not a dually server for the dually site? Ironic no? This statement is false.

MalHavoc He who rarely posts. Posts: 40 Joined: 2000-03-10

#14836 Posted on: 04/05/2002 09:31 PM That has been talked about to death. They are going with rackshack. Rackshack doesn't offer a dual server. At this point, it's cheaper to deal with rackshack to get the package deal on server/bandwidth than to build a dualie and colocate it some place and pay for colocation fees + bandwidth. Purely a cost issue. MalHavoc Systems Administrator for http://www.BeyondUnreal.com and http://www.ReefCentral.com http://malhavoc.homeunix.com/

geekwin Registered User Posts: 3 Joined: 2002-04-04

#14837 Posted on: 04/06/2002 04:42 PM Rackshack is offering dual servers but they are sold out at this moment. http://www.rackshack.net/specsintel.asp

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