Forum Change Tonight.

Just wanted to let everyone know. Tonight around 6 or 7pm EST we will be bringing down the systems. This should probably last less than one hour. But when we bring them down there wont be any messages as to why.

Why?

Funny you should ask. Its part of a 2 part process.

Part 1. - We are moving the forums to a temporary, yet dedicated, server. This should resolve nearly all of the performance problems (speed) we have been seeing since the switch.

If anything goes wrong we can simply fall back to where we are now but in either case the home of the forums will only last a few days until.

Part 2. - The shiny new Dell server shows up that is being ordered tonight. This new system will be also dedicated to just the forums :-)

Since we went ahead and bought into the new licenses, we may as well go all the way and get them running on a new speedier machine.

That should take a few days for delivery and configuration though and we want to speed things up before then.



Soooooo... Expect an hour or so of downtime tonight. If all goes well we will be snappier after this move - enough to hold us all over until the new machine gets here.


Thanks for the patience everyone. Better things are a comin....

Alex

Looking forward to it, Alex.

Woo Hoo!

wow shiny new server! impressive and exciting!

We are back.. nothing lost... may still see some speed issues but new server is ordered in the AM.
Exhausted again... will check back in the AM... hopefully nothing else will surprise me when i get back here.

Getting there guys... Thanks for the patience.

Thanks for all this work!

Neither rain, nor shine, nor THREE FEET of snow will stop the shiny new Dell server from arriving!

YEA, Alex!!

Thank you for all your hard work, I was so excited to see the site working faster this morning. I kNow how much work this is so I wanted to let you know how much I appreciate you...and everyone else that contributes to this site.

*races around the boards, a tiny blur of white fur and pink ears. She stops, does a back flip and lands on all four paws*

Pretty zippy this morning, Alex. And we're getting a new server?

*does her best bunny of doom happy dance*

http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/w...ncingbunny.gif

yep- while its a bit better on the current setup, Its NOT where it needs to be. The server is being spec'd and ordered this morning.

looks like these are the specs.
DELL POWEREDGE
TWO XEON 5160 DUAL CORE 3.0GHZ CPU'S W. 4MB CACHE
8GB FBDIMM RAM
4 x 500GB SATA HDD
PERC 5i ARRAY CONTROLLER
DUAL 10/100/1000 ETHERNET
DUAL POWER SUPPLIES

slap a decent video card in that bad boy and load up doom 3 i'll meet you on the WAN :D :D :D

lol - thats funny... maybe a bit overkill for doom :-)

Good luck. I know enough about servers to know it takes someone really smart to switch these bad boys out. We appreciate all you do.

Bah bye! :)