*** Server moves finished ***

[Steve St.Laurent]

Server moves finished

Both servers are now up and running at the new facility. Everything is 100% operational with the exception of spell check. Once I recover from a LOOOOOONG week with little sleep I will work on fixing the spell check - it will probably be some time next week or the week after before I get to it. In total we had approximately 1:45 minutes of down time on the forums with an hour and a half of that being between 2:30 and 4:00 am on Wednesday. Enjoy the new speed - I'm on my way to the airport .



-Steve St. Laurent

Webmaster

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

BTW, yesterday was a new record for hits - 955,967 in 24 hours!

 

[fkovalski]

Thanx for the great service! (as usual. )

 

[David Wheeler]

WOW!!!

I can't believe the speed of this server!! Thanks for all the hard work Steve!!!!!



David

 

[ntenna]

Likewise!



Thanks.....

 

[Deezul1]

Great job Steve, Thanks

 

[Jim Fulmer]

Think everyone needs to hug Steve, or give him a beer



Jim

 

[willyslover]

at 100,000 hits of beer he would have to report to AA for a long time



Grat Job Steve. . thanks

 

[jwinnie]

Thanks for the hard work Steve,

I am sleeping better at night knowing the TDR servers are close to my house

 

[Chris N5CWM]

Not an easy job

Keep up the great work! Very much appreciated!!

 

[fritzimax]

THANKS!!!

 

[Doc Tinker]

Good work Steve - Smooth as a babies behind on this end



Now. . Combine the speed of TDR and the fact that my cable company upped my upload speed to 256Kbps, I'm cruisin'



Doc

 

[Ladders]

TKS>>>>

THKS>>> need we say more... . YES!!!!!!!



THANKS!!!!



Da diesel-less SOTSU!!

\\BF//

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Spell check should now be operational. I also took this opportunity to change the software I'm using for it - this sw looks like it will be more compatible with browsers other than IE.



-Steve

 

[BillZ]

Server Connectivity

Steve,



Good work on the server move. The new provider (it appears Global Compass is your ISP) has very good upstream connections. I can see Global Compass uses ALERON. And the really neat note is that www.turbodieselregister.com is only 5 hops away from MAE-EAST AND MAE-WEST!!!! Now that is wonderful. To be that close to MAJOR peering points is excellent!!!!!!



I think someone here on the the forum mentioned the server speed as being very good and with almost 1M hits a day it's doing very well. But I think a major part of that sucess is the Internet connectivity that you have provided.



I can't tell what brand of router your attached but I can see you're either on a GigE link or very very close.



With almost 1M hits a day, you might consider mirrored servers. With one of my last clients, we designed a server farm that allowed them to move servers to different remote locations for server diversity and load sharing. So, if you're thinking it's all over you can't rest quite yet. Think about multiple servers in multiple remote locations as a potential goal. All server mirroring each other and all remotely hands off configured. Take a close look at the way Yahoo does their servers - it's a great example of multiple server/multiple locations.



Anyway - good job on the server move - good job on the upstream Internet connection - looks like you've done your homework. I appreciate you for all your efforts.



Bill



Bill

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Actually Bill, we basically have mirrored servers which is how I pulled off the move with minimal down time. What we don't do however is load balancing because thus far it isn't necessary and the cost versus benefit just isn't there. Right now we have a master and a slave server (identical configurations).



MySQL is setup in a master/slave relationship so that everything that is done on the master is immediately done on the slave as well. Every night the slave copies everything in the html directories over. All of this is done through a private network between the two servers - so the TDR doesn't have to pay for the bandwidth for all those transfers. I am working right now on getting the slave setup so that it will check to see if the master goes down and if it does that it will automatically reconfigure itself to take over as the master server.



Our server loads are extremely low - usually in the . 2-. 3 range on a dual CPU system (2. 0 being fully loaded) with occasional spikes over 1. 0 . To go to a load balancing situation where we could move the servers with no down time would mean that all of the load balancing would need to be happening over the public net and the TDR would have to pay for that bandwidth. Given the reliability of the servers and of the connection we have now (3 different fiber providers and hosts) it doesn't make financial sense to take on the additional costs involved. Thanks for your input though.



-Steve