Planned downtime tomorrow

[Baldrick]

Tomorrow will our site be a down a few hours. My webprovider will upgrade the server, upgrading to dual athlon mp2400 cpus from mp1800...maybe not that much improvement...but some.

[g_shocker182]

O FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!!!!!



(in my best chris farley voice)

[sterno]

Tell your web provider that you want to be upgraded to a Sun Fire 4800. That would be a good upgrade.

[housepig]

nooooooooooo.....

<pant pant pant>

can't... connect.... to server....
...... withdrawl starting....

....it's all <choke> gettin' dark....


..mother.....



(if, after the server is back up, someone could uncurl me from my fetal position, pick me up off the floor, and unclench my teeth, I'd be much obliged)

[indolikaa]

I feel your pain, housepig. Where will I slum tomorrow? Who will take me in?

[The village idiot]

Too bad it isn't to 2 XEONs at about 3Ghz each, and a few gig of ram. And I too will be helpless while it is down. Guess I'll work on some cover letters, and send out some resumes

Anybody hiring?


Back to the server, those old processors should be plenty. What OS does it run? And how much ram? 1 place I used to hang out ran 2 Xeon (P3 series) at like 800Mhz. He was able to support forum activity with way over 1000 user at one time. The OS of choice was Redhat. And it had something like 6 GB ram. He tried to keep as much of the active stuff in ram so that it was very quick. It worked very well too. He also had a fat pipe connecting it to the world, and was mostly active for North American users. Not like the world wide user base that we have here.

[Will Hay]

Tomorrow will our site be a down a few hours.

SHIT!!!!!!!
I better do some work then
Will

[Baldrick]

Tell your web provider that you want to be upgraded to a Sun Fire 4800. That would be a good upgrade.

Okey...I will buy the one for $299,290.00....

[Baldrick]

Back to the server, those old processors should be plenty. What OS does it run? And how much ram? 1 place I used to hang out ran 2 Xeon (P3 series) at like 800Mhz. He was able to support forum activity with way over 1000 user at one time. The OS of choice was Redhat. And it had something like 6 GB ram. He tried to keep as much of the active stuff in ram so that it was very quick. It worked very well too. He also had a fat pipe connecting it to the world, and was mostly active for North American users. Not like the world wide user base that we have here.

i'm on win2k...so I need more poweeeeer....

[The village idiot]

Now I understand! Any thoughts about win 2003 server? Haven't worked with it myself, but MS says it will do more with less. It must be the next best thing since sliced bread!

[tgpo]

MS says it will do more with less

Yes it'll send out more of your information with less of you knowing.


Man. I may actually have to do work today. NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

[Solarjetman]

ACK!!! I am having withdrawl pains already!

[Gazorgan]

Doom9 is so boring compared to here

I suppose I can actually work all day......


2003 Server is still Beta, and won't be worth a DAM until SP2 is out for it, say late 2005? This is based on the history of all M$ products :P

[tgpo]

Yes, DVDRHELP.com will be going down.....on jeex. Lucky guy.

[JSB]

Okey...I will buy the one for $299,290.00....

Maybe they have quantity pricing?

[Solarjetman]

Yeah, DVDrhelp.com is back!!!!

[stiltman]

talk about jonesin

[Baldrick]

Yep...the upgrade seems to have worked fine.

[stiltman]

Yep...the upgrade seems to have worked fine.

And pretty much right on schedule....
Got to love it when a plan comes together

[BASDSucks]

the sites still slow as hell for me...takes a good 5 seconds to load a new forum page

[Solarjetman]

Got to love it when a plan comes together

nice quote

You have a good host baldrick. Only down an hour. Some places would take longer.

[housepig]

<sniff sniff>

mmmmmm.... it still has that "new server" smell....

.... minty....

[Baldrick]

the sites still slow as hell for me...takes a good 5 seconds to load a new forum page

Loads a bit faster here. But this upgrade wont help that much...I still have to keep optimize all my php lists(dvdplayers, tools, dvd media and such).

[MOVIEGEEK]

Thanks Baldrick I was going into withdrawals.

[tgpo]

To be honest, it loads faster from here at school when compared to yesturday.

[g_shocker182]

I never noticed the speed increase. Then again, I have cable so speed is not an issue for me.

[thayne]

Now I understand! Any thoughts about win 2003 server? Haven't worked with it myself, but MS says it will do more with less. It must be the next best thing since sliced bread!

Seems pretty decent so far. No problems or crashes. Been using it since last week on a 2.4GHz P4 with 800MHz FSB and hyper threading, 512MB DDR-400 Ram.

It's pretty easy to manage and now has a built in pop-3 server. I which it had imap though, pop-3 sux.

If I were Baldrick I would for sure switch to FreeBSD. Apache, PHP and MySQL run like crap on windows, at least compared to FreeBSD or Linux.

[vhelp]

Hi gang 8)

@ Baldrick..

I just did a refresh, and imo, it WAS a wittle faster hehe :P
Using 56k dialup over here in US of A.

hmm.. I can verify that twice now.. page refreshed very quickly here

Oh, and AFAICT, no more "spinning Globe" problems w/ refreshs
so, all I can say, is that your upgrade DID some good things for me, and was
worth it in that respect

Thanks for the improvements on this end,
-vhelp

[Faustus]

Far as speed goes I can't say, I'm on a modem. We'll see in a few hours when I'm at work though.

[sterno]

Tell your web provider that you want to be upgraded to a Sun Fire 4800. That would be a good upgrade.

Okey...I will buy the one for $299,290.00....

If you go for a refurb it'll probably "only" cost about half that much for the same system.