Equipment upgrades this week, expect some down time

[ToolManTimTaylor]

Man the world of "Big" Hardware is forever changing. So let me get it straight The database server is now going to be in a sense "Stand alone" ? Better performance single tasking.

 

[Stark_Ent9802]

Man the world of "Big" Hardware is forever changing. So let me get it straight The database server is now going to be in a sense "Stand alone" ? Better performance single tasking.

Yes Tim that is correct... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ..... I'm jokin I have no clue :-laf

 

[Signal73]

Well Ill have to copy + Paste some threads so later tonight I have something to read and wont go into the DT's because of no TDR. .

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Man the world of "Big" Hardware is forever changing. So let me get it straight The database server is now going to be in a sense "Stand alone" ? Better performance single tasking.

Tim, the database server has been standalone for a long time now. The load on the database server is VERRRRRRY low. Back when we were running on one server (years ago) I thought that mysql was what was causing slow downs. Once I split it out I found out it wasn't the database at all - it was apache (which is the web server). What I'm doing now is we will have multiple web servers on the front end all connecting to the single database server. The single web server has been functioning fine thus far and would continue to do so for a couple more months but sometime this winter we would have started running into performance issues. Our peak traffic each year is in february thru april and the low point is july. Right now our traffic is up 20% from last november. This is a preventative measure to deal with the future traffic loads that we'll be getting and also to provide better fault tolerance, etc. With the rack space we have right now I could add up to 3 more web servers on the front end (for a total of 5 web servers) before we'd need to lease more space. It will be a long time before we get to that point.

 

[CogginsP]

So Steve, does all this mean I will be able to search the forums more times than once every 15 seconds?? :-laf



AHHHHHG The server is gonna go down in 10 minutes... . what am I going to do with my time for the next 6 hours

 

[JayWm]

Tim, the database server has been standalone for a long time now. The load on the database server is VERRRRRRY low. Back when we were running on one server (years ago) I thought that mysql was what was causing slow downs. Once I split it out I found out it wasn't the database at all - it was apache (which is the web server). What I'm doing now is we will have multiple web servers on the front end all connecting to the single database server. The single web server has been functioning fine thus far and would continue to do so for a couple more months but sometime this winter we would have started running into performance issues. Our peak traffic each year is in february thru april and the low point is july. Right now our traffic is up 20% from last november. This is a preventative measure to deal with the future traffic loads that we'll be getting and also to provide better fault tolerance, etc. With the rack space we have right now I could add up to 3 more web servers on the front end (for a total of 5 web servers) before we'd need to lease more space. It will be a long time before we get to that point.

In simple terms, Steve is saying we all need to get a life in the winter months... .