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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 26 January 2005 : 10:02:59
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Just to give you all notice that the forum may be unavailable periodically over the coming weekend.
I am installing a nice new SQL server, dual 2.8GHz Xeon with 6Gb of ram, 2x120Gb striped SATA drives for the data,2x120Gb mirrored IDE drives for the log files and a 200Gb IDE for the backups.
So will be migrating the databases over the weekend, hopefully it ought to be considerably quicker than the current server. |
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
Ireland
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Posted - 26 January 2005 : 10:10:37
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Thanks for the heads up, Huw, and your continued work to keep these forums running so smoothly. 
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PeeWee.Inc
Senior Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 26 January 2005 : 10:22:21
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Hope everything goes without trouble, Huw.
Like Shaggy said, the work yo do to keep Snitz up and running is great. |
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Podge
Support Moderator
Ireland
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Davio
Development Team Member
Jamaica
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20579 Posts |
Posted - 26 January 2005 : 15:38:14
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| In comparison to the first PC I ever purchased it was pretty cheap at just under £2000 (GBP), the first pc I bought rather than built myself out of donated bits cost me £2500+ and was a 486 DX4100 with 128Mb of Ram and a wapping 500Mb HD which was the size of a house , funny really, in it's day it was the fastest pc around |
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Podge
Support Moderator
Ireland
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Da_Stimulator
DEV Team Forum Moderator
USA
3373 Posts |
Posted - 26 January 2005 : 16:10:49
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Originally posted by Podge
Its coming Davio. Just need to inflate my Paypal account a little more
HuwR, out of curiosity. Why do you purchase and co-locate (assumption) rather than rent?
I'd rather have my own server in my living room than rent one who knows where under who knows what kind of supervision |
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Podge
Support Moderator
Ireland
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20579 Posts |
Posted - 26 January 2005 : 16:56:21
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HuwR, out of curiosity. Why do you purchase and co-locate (assumption) rather than rent?
Because it is cheaper to rent an empty rack and build my own servers, and I know exactly what they are and how they are setup, it is why I set up the hosting in the first place, got tired of crap unkowledgable support staff. |
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 28 January 2005 : 01:04:29
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Not a bad server at all. Quite the hardware in that thing. It should be speedy. I have my own server as well. I'm lucky enough to work at a place where they will let me co-host it in thier server room. Security, power and backup systems, temp. controlled, and bandwidth provided by a DS-3 all for the low, low price of $0 a month. Heck, they even let me dump my important data onto the backup server for writing to tape every night and to get stored in off site location. It's kind of nice. |
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stwilson
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - 28 January 2005 : 18:40:34
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| Thanks Huw!!! We appreciate your effots to keep Snitz humming along. |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20579 Posts |
Posted - 31 January 2005 : 09:43:14
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| going to be a few more delays I'm afraid, had a major disaster over the weekend which has put me way behind. I got the new servers installed ok, but when I got back home to start migrating all the databases my own PC went up in a puff of smoke, so had to spend most of the weekend fixing my machine instead of moving databases. |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20579 Posts |
Posted - 01 February 2005 : 05:49:52
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| Ok, the database has been moved, so please report any problems which appear to be database related |
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Podge
Support Moderator
Ireland
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Bassman
Junior Member
Netherlands
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Posted - 01 February 2005 : 08:39:11
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| This is indeed very fast..nice work. |
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