Server Upgrade... again... but really needed.
A week after our last upgrade we find we need even greater capacity. The I.P. address will remain the same so there should be little to no impact.
The immediate benefit is MUCH FASTER page downloads.
For the technical amongst us, here are the server specifications;
Intel P4 3.0 GHz
80 GB Disk
512 MB (DDR)
Linux - Red Hat Enterprise
This server will support the 100 or more concurrent site visitors we have and also support chat rooms. I will only introduce Premium OJar when I know the server has the capacity to support it. I have already tested the chat software and it works flawlessly but there is no way I will make it available without being confident the server can handle the extra load.
- Michael
Re: Server Upgrade... again... but really needed. gulfcoast: Sounds great Michael......
there are 97 people here as of right now....
that's alot of people.......
We knew you would figure something out....
Greatly appreciated............
Re: Server Upgrade... again... but really needed. hurtinbad: Love the site. It has really helped me cope with what I am going through. Thank you for doing this.
One minor suggestion: When I read an article and all of the responses, I frequently have to look back at the top to see who started the thread, and see when they are responding to responses. If you can, it would be nice to set the backcolor of the message to some color (green?) if the poster is the initiator.
Just a suggestion.
Re: Server Upgrade... again... but really needed. DarrenB: [quote author=Michael link=topic=15083.msg126682#msg126682 date=1121368025">
On Monday (7/18) we plan to upgrade the OJAR.com to an even bigger server yet again!
A week after our last upgrade we find we need even greater capacity. The I.P. address will remain the same so there should be little to no impact.
The immediate benefit is MUCH FASTER page downloads.
For the technical amongst us, here are the server specifications;
Intel P4 3.0 GHz
80 GB Disk
512 MB (DDR)
Linux - Red Hat Enterprise
This server will support the 100 or more concurrent site visitors we have and also support chat rooms. I will only introduce Premium OJar when I know the server has the capacity to support it. I have already tested the chat software and it works flawlessly but there is no way I will make it available without being confident the server can handle the extra load.
- Michael
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Amazing what running Linux on a box instead of Windows Server will do for you, huh? 512 MB in a Windows enivonment would be adequate, but enough to support the volume of visitors and the features you're going to add to the site? Probably not.
What? No Linux SuSe?? Hahaha! I have heard they are having all sorts of problems with that OS.
Re: Server Upgrade... again... but really needed. admin: TWGSM,
First my bias, I grew up on Unix boxes long before there was a "PC revolution" -- anyone remember Unix Level 6, Tahoe Unix , early versions of BSD Unix?
But in defense of Microsoft, the problem is that hardly anyone knows how to run their IIS servers properly. There are some amazing tuning features within the Microsoft kernel that even their own engineers and consultants are amazingly ignorant of... can anyone spell, "korporate kommunikation". hee hee!
Case in point, I ran a site (not mine) back in 2000 - 2002 on 14 Microsoft "Wintel" IIS boxes with 2.5 million unique visitors and 40 minutes average visit times. No one believed it was possible, but it really is possible if you take advantage of the hardware. The issue often isn't the hardware or the software, its the people running it.
As for OJar, I use Unix both on my Macintosh and on this site. Can't beat the stability, performance and open-source community. Even with the 14 Microsoft "Wintel" IIS boxes with 2.5 million unique visitors we had to reboot the boxes EVERY day. Those things leaked memory like sieves.
The operating this time, Linux - Red Hat Enterprise has been picked by my host Westhost.com
Westhost.com run one of the most active forums on the planet, webmasterworld.com and by my estimates using Alexa Ranking these folks are doing 200 million page views a month, so I am fairly confident Westhost.com can handle this site with its 1 million page views a month.
Oops, this post probably highlights my "geekness"... ;)
-- Michael.
