An Update

So as I posted in another thread, the server is paid for and ordered. It should be a screamer when its all set up. For the few geeks among us:
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


Also, since we have to make our home here on this machine for a few days, I have spent the morning adjusting settings in each and every forum (has to be done one at a time), to increase performance... cache settings, ajax calls, etc.

Little by little the forums seem to have gotten faster and faster. It's actually not too bad considering what we are currently running on.


So, I will keep tweaking a bit this evening, and rebuilding all that was lost on the other forums (we lost nothing here but the losses on the hunting sites were biblical :-( ).

When the server gets delivered it will take some time to setup, configure, transfer and test but am looking forward to pure speed for a change.

My appreciation for the understanding and patience on everyone's part. Hopefully there wont be any more drama for a while. I think I aged 10 years this week!

Back to the doom.
Alex

I don't understand your business. I'm bad with computers.

But, I had considered hiring someone to build a site for me, related to my ideas.

Yet, I think watching you go through this, has broken me of that idea.

Maybe I will go sell low tech survival gear at the swap meet.

Seems like a lot less stress

Oh and one last note. Some of the speed changes I make actually require the server modules to reboot. Sometimes that means 2 minutes round trip. Sometimes 5.
I try to do those only when needed. We have done 2 today so far.

But in case the site seems to blink out for a few minutes... don't panic :-) - Its just necessary to alter all the settings.

Thanks, Alex! Many people appreciate your work!

so when the doom 3 party start :)

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Originally Posted by Steaker

I don't understand your business. I'm bad with computers.

Seems like a lot less stress

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But I respect your talent, tenacity and I really appreciate your work here. Thank you again, Anne

Bah bye! :)

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Originally Posted by ohohohchit

Nice to know SC will be even faster when your new Dell server arrives, sounds like an expensive toy.

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:-)
Thanks everyone.
Yep, the server with the current config was about $6,700 when they came out. :-)
Not paying that now obviously... but the machine should still rocket along :-)

oooohhhhhh
ahhhhhhhhh

geek porn

<img src="http://www.scsistuff.com/images/pe2950-4drives.jpg">

Ooooo very nice! Will cross my fingers that everything runs smoothly for a while fer ya.