i'm an expert Linux installer.
broke mine a bunch of times.
it's really pretty easy, even i can do it.
and i've converted 5 other people over.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/07/2012 01:18PM by fossil_digger.

Reckon you can setup a raid array, define a logical volume group & configure a remote system console?

Or even just the remote console and give me access to something?

Reason I'm asking is I'm looking at a new server for the sites, but it's in the US, and I'm not paying for intercontinental shipping. Twice. So I need some arms and feet stateside somewhere to help me with at least getting the remote console running so I can do the install myself, or doing the install & configuring the console for me, before shipping it to a colo company..

It's not a done deal yet, I haven't bought anything, but I'm looking

a what, a where, and a who?
uh....forget i answered that.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/07/2012 03:28PM by fossil_digger.

Stuff isn't that hard, but at the worst I'm sure it can't be too hard to factory reset the remote console & give me access it's more the physical stuff I need.

i'm game. between Kim and I, we should be able to muck it out

i'm watching ASTC Australian V-8 supercar race right now, now that's my kinda racing!

There's a race on live now I think.. probably finished actually. Busy watching football (north melbourne vs west coast) with my wife, good game.

I may have found a better server option, from a guy who's told me in the past he'll configure the remote console for me, so I might be able to get it shipped straight to the colo centre if I decide to buy one.. so we'll see. Nice looking boxes.

What I really want is 2 new servers, one for storage and one for processing/hosting, but that's all a bit expensive. We need sponsorship

i have a great spot right next to my box and a good connect to run it off of.

If you actually had a connection fast enough I'd be tempted

It'd be so much cheaper to host off a standalone server without having to pay the premiums for rack mounted, 1RU servers. Once you get to enterprise boxes the price goes through the roof; bang for buck, they're terrible. The servers I'm looking at now cost more than my desktop PC, which is totally top of the line. The servers are 2nd hand and probably 4+ years old now. But since you pay per RU (about 1" of height) the smaller the box the cheaper it is to run.

Once I get my 100/40mbps fibre connection next year (if the Australian NBN plan actually goes through to completion in my area) I've considered at the very least hosting plus613 at home. Hosting porn in Australia is illegal so not much good to me for the other side.

mine is 10mb, but i could bump it up to 30-40mb

fossil: that's your down pipe.. upstream would be limited heavily.. and it's all about the upstream for hosting

just did a speed test:
ping- 20 ms
download speed- 7.64mbps
upload- 1.76 mbps

but i have the minimum right now.

ping-31
download- 8.91
upload- 1.74

Yeah, with that upload speed we'd saturate your link and it's be unusable that's cool, happy to pay for hosting at least for now, but thanks for the offer :$

i can upgrade big time tho

You need more than viagra to fix your down pipe there, f_d.

viagra can't help perma-wood. you asked for that picture.

You people sicken and frighten me.

you're welcome.

It's Pinnochio!

potential web hosting stats

Unfortunately data transfer and disk space are nowhere near enough

New core DB server will be online in a few days, looking forward to it. Maybe I'll be able to backup the database without bringing the server screaming to its knees...

That would be great. Sundays blow goats here. (insert DK joke here)

Yeah. Unfortunately it won't be online in time for this Sunday, but maybe I'll just disable it for tomorrow.. Then again with the broken RAID array if we lose another disk we lose all the data so a backup is probably important.

FedEx has picked up the server, so it's on its way to destination. I think it's just road transfer though. Estimated delivery July 18th, it'll probably take 2-3 days to build it and get it online, so maybe in time for next Sunday.

It should be good, and will hopefully massively speed up the site.

Nah, much as I hate em don't kill the backups. I'll wait Not worth the risk. RAID should be re-defined as Risky Array of Interdependent Discs.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 14/07/2012 09:04PM by BlahX3.

Fossil, this would happen to you...

Hopefully things in general have been faster for everybody lately, but tonight I've added online another image server into the farm.

Please let me know if you find anything more broken than normal, particularly thumbnails in the gallery & images themselves.

24 hours in, seems snappier to me.

90,000 images served off the new system in 24 hours. That's just over 1 per second, snoozing along. Not bad (since it's just 1 server).

I was unable to view the site for about 10 hours today. First it was just a plain white screen then an "unable to display" error message.

Yeah, wasn't related to this upgrade. We've had an issue recently with the DB server falling off the network. It's been identified as a faulty switch, which has been replaced today.

Hopefully no more issues.....