We're Just too popular! - Server Outages

tavenger5 · 05-06-2006, 06:13 PM

Recently we have been experiencing high load on our server do to massive amounts of traffic.

To remedy this we have purchased a new, more powerful server, which is awesome. It will be more than able to handle the load.

Things will be transferred over within the next couple of days. (probably at night) You may experience some downtime when the switch is done and things propagate.

Thank you for your patience.

**phpAdNetwork** · 05-18-2006, 10:50 AM

Just out of curiousity, how many visits does CPF average a month? Also, how much more traffic can these new servers handle?

I'm all about web development and related topics, so successful sites like CPF always tickle my fancy LOL

tavenger5 · 05-18-2006, 12:41 PM

I'm still working on things and the site isn't on the new server yet. Have run into some snags setting the new stuff up.

The new server should be able to handle about triple the traffic. It's a dual xeon 3.2 with 2 73gb SCSI drives and 2gb ram running RHE 4. It's also almost double the price of the older, current machine.

I rather not give out exact numbers, but I'll say that it's enough to need a heafty dual processor machine

nigel hull · 05-19-2006, 10:04 AM

Must be popular.. thats how i found it.

bossdragon · 05-19-2006, 03:41 PM

I forgot to ask this before, but what are you planning on doing with the old Server....? Sell it, use it, give it away to one of your trusty Moderators????....LOL

tavenger5 · 05-19-2006, 03:45 PM

it's just rented. I don't actually own the hardware.

tavenger5 · 05-23-2006, 05:38 AM

The server transfer is almost complete. A little propogation and everything should be back in order

**phpAdNetwork** · 05-24-2006, 08:42 AM

Can the new servers handle a digg?

tavenger5 · 05-24-2006, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Cell Mansion

Can the new servers handle a digg?

Sure, I could probably impliment something with digg, but right now I just have regular rss feeds going into the cell phone news forum.

comrad · 05-26-2006, 05:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tavenger5

I'm still working on things and the site isn't on the new server yet. Have run into some snags setting the new stuff up.

The new server should be able to handle about triple the traffic. It's a dual xeon 3.2 with 2 73gb SCSI drives and 2gb ram running RHE 4. It's also almost double the price of the older, current machine.

I rather not give out exact numbers, but I'll say that it's enough to need a heafty dual processor machine

What made you get the intels? On my site I used to run Dual Xeons, Now I switched to Dual Opterons, alot faster

tavenger5 · 05-26-2006, 06:44 PM

yeh, we just got a nice hp proliant quad processor opterons. The thing is a beast with 4 173gb hot swaps and 15gb of ram. But I don't need something like that.

I got a good deal on the xeons. I've heard good things about both.