New Forum Server: Informatin Inside ...

[Adlon]

Ok. Morrus and I have the solution to the forum situation.

This test forum is running on a 733 Mhz, 448MB PC-133 SDRam.

The Server I will be building Morrus will be a 1.5 Ghz, 512MB DDR.
The board has 2 RAM slots, so, to add another 512MB is of no issue.

For the time being, I would suggest that you may see weird things, like Avatars not showing up, cookie issues with logins, and other minor PIA issues, on these test boards.

Once the server is built, loaded, configured, and vBulletin is installed, and a fresh copy of the DB is transfered to the box, the minor things can be worked out.

You can probably expect to HAVE to manually delete your cookies, and temp inet files, once the new forums go online. Such is the way of cookies.

The server willl be on a 24/7 monitoring system, a 500VA APC, and will have a weekly automated backup routed to an export drive on another machine.

For you Linux heads out there, we'll be using a 40G HD, with a 1Gig Swap partition as well

 

[hong]

Ok. Morrus and I have the solution to the forum situation.

This test forum is running on a 733 Mhz, 448MB PC-133 SDRam.

The Server I will be building Morrus will be a 1.5 Ghz, 512MB DDR.
The board has 2 RAM slots, so, to add another 512MB is of no issue.

HUBBA! HUBBA! HUBBA!

 

[Psionicist]

Cool.

Say, can you give us a little more information? "733 mhz" can be lots of things, P3, Celeron, VIA C3 and so on. Also, the harddrive, can you run a session of HD Tach, ATTO bench or something so we can see the speed of the thingy? Would be great!

 

[drothgery]

The Server I will be building Morrus will be a 1.5 Ghz...

Really? There's not a 1.5 GHz Athlon XP or Athlon MP (the 1800+ versions are 1.53 GHz; the Athlon XP 1500+ runs at 1.33 GHz), the fastest P3 is a 1.4 GHz P3-S (and Intel's not going to make any faster ones), and the now-discontinued 1.5 GHz Willamette P4 would make a terrible server chip.

 

[Cergorach]

Re: Re: New Forum Server: Informatin Inside ...

Really? There's not a 1.5 GHz Athlon XP or Athlon MP (the 1800+ versions are 1.53 GHz; the Athlon XP 1500+ runs at 1.33 GHz), the fastest P3 is a 1.4 GHz P3-S (and Intel's not going to make any faster ones), and the now-discontinued 1.5 GHz Willamette P4 would make a terrible server chip.

Options:
Intel Pentium 4 1,5GHz (Socket 423)
Intel Pentium 4 1,5GHz (Socket 478)
Intel Xeon 1,5GHz
One of those kewl weirdass bladed servers from transmeta

But i think that he meant an Athelon 1,53 (or Athelon1500+)

But why the nitpicking?

Btw, i too am curious about the exact specs and what it's running exactly...

 

[drothgery]

Re: Re: Re: New Forum Server: Informatin Inside ...

Options:
Intel Pentium 4 1,5GHz (Socket 423)
Intel Pentium 4 1,5GHz (Socket 478)
Intel Xeon 1,5GHz

All of these are discontinued, and a pre-Northwood P4 (or pre-Prestonia Xeon) is a terrible server CPU.

But i think that he meant an Athelon 1,53 (or Athelon1500+)

But why the nitpicking?

I expect he meant an Athlon XP/MP Model 1500+, too. But I always nitpick.

 

[Quartermoon]

Once the server is built, loaded, configured, and vBulletin is installed, and a fresh copy of the DB is transfered to the box, the minor things can be worked out.

Any idea when this will be? A week? Month?

You can probably expect to HAVE to manually delete your cookies, and temp inet files, once the new forums go online. Such is the way of cookies.

What is a temp inet file?

 

[LightPhoenix]

Any idea when this will be? A week? Month?

When 4E comes out.

What is a temp inet file?

When you browse the internet, the pages you view are stored in a temporary folder. On a windows machine, this is usually C:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\. Everything in here can be deleted safely.

 

[Ranger REG]

Once the server is built, loaded, configured, and vBulletin is installed, and a fresh copy of the DB is transfered to the box, the minor things can be worked out.

Let me know when it is online and if using a different address, provide it via email.

You can probably expect to HAVE to manually delete your cookies, and temp inet files, once the new forums go online. Such is the way of cookies.

Just provide the instruction for deleting the RIGHT cookie from this current and previous EN World Board.

 

[Morrus]

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Let me know when it is online and if using a different address, provide it via email.

It'll all be on the front page news. I'm certainly not sending out emails to 4,500 people!