IMPORTANT: TBCS Server Upgrade

[Crimson Sky]

We have the opportunity to upgrade our ageing server to a newer model, and we will be doing so June 20-21st.

What we have now:

P4 2.8GHz
1GB RAM
HDD-1: 120GB
Hdd-2: 250GB

The Upgrade:

Dual Core Opteron
2GB RAM
HDD's 2x 250GB


Please EXPECT the server to be down sometime Friday the 20th starting in the evening. We will have splash pages up as a reminder. The Forums will also be UNAVAILABLE during the migration. Thanks for hanging in there!


-Paulie

[Airbozo]

Yo Paulie! hehe sorry, always wanted to say that... (I know, I kill me)

Do you spec the HW or take the upgrade they give you? Can you add your own parts? Such as memory or drives?

Being a hardware geek, I just had to ask. If 2&3 are yes, lets talk...

[Crimson Sky]

Hah! almost no one calls me Paul--it's either Paulie or Pablo. :)

I just basically saw a special they had advertised, for $10 more a month I can get the upgrade--Not sure if its a package or they can do a la carte type server slap-together. I'm sure they are flexible. what ya have in mind?

[Airbozo]

The pile of server memory sitting on my desk at home could be put to use... ;)

I also may have some disks. I will check my inventory (I also take into account several spares for my home systems). 250's and 500's...

ONLY for a good cause like TBCS though so no trolls... hehe

[chaksq]

Okay, if my current desktop can wipe the floor with our current server I'm all for an upgrade (and consequential downtime).

[crenn]

With the server outages I'm having today, the upgrade is seeming like a good idea!

[Drum Thumper]

With the server outages I'm having today, the upgrade is seeming like a good idea!

Agreed.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Yes the outages were happening yesterday and today for me to. The posts I made on my worklog are not there any more, I will re post them once the upgrade is complete, saves me having to post them a third time.

[Crimson Sky]

The upgrade has nothing to do with experiencing less downtime. In the 4 years I've been with this hosting company, the server has been down very briefly about 5 times. That's an extraordinaryly good record.

The most recent outtage had nothing to do with the server ;)

[crenn]

Dave! Stop prodding the server!

[The boy 4rm oz]

Good to hear it's not the server. Now I have to try and find a my update lol.

[Fuganater]

When you get it up, want me to do some testing?

[XcOM]

nice one fug, your in my sig!

and its not dave prodding the server, its jon ad that damm big red button again

[Fuganater]

haha xcom

[simon275]

lol nice xcom.

I thought there was something a bit more powerful then a P4 holding this place together.

[crenn]

lol nice xcom.

I thought there was something a bit more powerful then a P4 holding this place together.
There was, a bit of love was holding this place together ^-^

[Crimson Sky]

Here is what I've been offered by the hosting company, for just a few bucks more a month:


Dear Paul,

Thanks for talking to me yesterday. Apologies for the delayed reply. Monday turned out to be a bit too hectic.

Here are the two options for servers we can have online for you anytime.

Dual-Core Intel Xeon 1.6 GHz
2 GB RAM
2x250 GB HDD
cPanel/Fantastico
1500 GB Bandwidth


Dual-Core AMD Opteron Processor 180
2 GB RAM
2x250 GB HDD
cPanel/Fantastico
2000 GB Bandwidth


Your currently monthly bandwidth usage is around 200 GB.

Please let us know which option suits your better and we will get working on this.

[SgtM]

Sounds like a good deal Paul. When I had my server, it was $350/mo, and not near as powerful as what you're being offered. Although, I did have what was considered to be unlimited (unmetered) bandwidth, 2500GB/mo is pretty much the same thing.

[Crimson Sky]

Honestly I don't know which one is a better choice :redface:

[crenn]

Opteron processors have better memory bandwidth, but either server will work.

[OvRiDe]

Can we get a model number on the Xeon? Either of them will do great for the server. Having been in the server game for a while I am probably partial to the Xeon. In my experiences they have been rock solid, but since we don't have any Opteron boxes I really don't have a reference. The extra 500GB/Mo of bandwidth is really nice on the Opteron option but pretty much irrelevant for this site, since we average around 200GB total.

So if the Xeon is either the 5110 or the 5130 I would put my vote in for it, its core is built on newer tech which is along the Core 2 lines, whereas the Opteron about a 2 year old CPU.

Just my 2 cents.. would like to hear what the others have to say

[The boy 4rm oz]

I agree with OvRIDe. Those Xeon's are built on newer tech so in my book they would probably be a better option in the long run.

[Eclecticos]

Sounds like an excellent idea to me. :up:

[Crimson Sky]

QUESTION from hosting company: Do we want to move the Data ourselves to the new server, or for $100 they will take care of it? Please advise...

[Fuganater]

Its not that hard to migrate....

[Helix666]

IMO, migrating isn't too difficult (relatively...) but I've only ever moved non-vital things and it did take a while...
For me, my server migration was:

dump databases
copy /var/www to new server
import database dump into the new database server
double check that nothing's broken.

however, if you're not as confident with this, it may be better to pay the extra to have them do it for you. YMMV, etc.

[Crazy Buddhist]

Opterons are rock solid too and the 180's run at a stock speed of 2.4 Ghz so you may find better performance. I'm no AMD fanboy either so don't go there.

$100 or DIY migration? Personally I'd pay the money and go out to dinner.

Crazy

[Crimson Sky]

ATTENTION: This website will be UNAVAILABLE on Friday evening, 6-27-2008 as we migrate to the new server. The HOSTING company will be taking care of this

[Airbozo]

ATTENTION: This website will be UNAVAILABLE on Friday evening, 6-27-2008 as we migrate to the new server. The HOSTING company will be taking care of this

The shakes have started already....

Time for the off line synchronization....

[jdbnsn]

Don't panic everyone, just swallow the red pill I taped underneath your seats and we'll meet you on the other side. ;)

[crenn]

So which server did he pick?

[Airbozo]

Don't panic everyone, just swallow the red pill I taped underneath your seats and we'll meet you on the other side. ;)

Damn, mine is blue... ;)

[Crimson Sky]

So which server did he pick?


went for the Xenon based server :banana: Intel Rules.

[Bopher]

Don't panic everyone, just swallow the red pill I taped underneath your seats and we'll meet you on the other side. ;)

Where's mine!! I was on vacation and its not here! I found a tic tac, will that work for the shakes?:no:

[Quakken]

You could just gablargarapraprapgrkayttrebcvx3wtyetncvbyuafdahahj gfdcv .


that should help out the shakes (I had them myself, my typing might be a bit garbled).

[SgtM]

Don't panic everyone, just swallow the red pill I taped underneath your seats and we'll meet you on the other side. ;)

I'm making Kool-Aid to go along with it.

[FuzzyPlushroom]

I dunno that I'd drink the Flavor-Aid, guys... might not turn out so well.

[crenn]

Damn, mine is blue... ;)
At least you'll be happy after you take it ;)

[nevermind1534]

Could this have anything to do with all of the news posts being reposted in the forums?

[jdbnsn]

Could this have anything to do with all of the news posts being reposted in the forums?

Not that I know of, but I am not exactly sure why those posts surfaced. I suspect that the staff in charge of the front page may have been tweaking some settings or something.