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Some of you (most of you) will have noticed that the forums have been, shall we say, a bit slow as of late. Basically, we've grown a lot bigger than we were when this current server was purchased, and we've outgrown it a bit. A lot of the time things are alright, but at peak times, the forum slows to a crawl. phpBB 3.0 should help things, it's a lot more optimised and efficient, but even then, it won't help forever. The solution, therefore, is to chuck better hardware at the problem. ;) I'm in the process of ordering components for a new server, which if all goes well will be ready in a few week's time. The server will be located in the same datacentre as the current servers are, in Amsterdam. Also, this server will be truly dedicated to the forums (the current server also hosts various OpenTTD things).

This should help things significantly, but the new server will basically cost £50/month more than the current one. The server as it is can more or less be covered by advertising, etc. However, it will not cover the new server completely, so please, if you can, consider donating to the forums. Any donation, small or large, will help. A small donation every month may be more useful than a one-off large, donation, too. To those users who have already donated: thank you, your support is truly appreciated.

I'll keep you updated on what's going on over the next month or so.
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I will contribute £20 to this new server, right away!
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Thanks to those who have donated. The new server has been built (see pictures here) and will hopefully be installed in the datacentre on Tuesday. :)
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Cool Gandalf (or newgandalf) ;)
How big's he?
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What do you mean by "how big"? The hardware specifications?
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Yeah, HDD size (He's a 20 GB?) :p
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20GB is a bit low, i thing its around 500GB or 1 TB :P btw its in a 1U unit, so not much space. :P
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The server is an AMD X2 4400+ (dual-core), 2GB RAM, 2x80GB HD (RAID-1). The hard disk may seem a bit small to some, but the current forum server only uses about 25GB of its space, so 80GB should keep us going until we need to upgrade the server again or figure something else out. ;) Besides, we could always use the old server for file storage or something. :P
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Illegal_Alien wrote:20GB is a bit low
orudge wrote: but the current forum server only uses about 25GB of its space,
IA> You see IA, 20 GB was almost what's required... :p
Owen> How big was the old one?
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The old server consists of an Athlon 64 3700+ with 1GB RAM. The improved processor and particularly the doubling of the RAM should help things significantly. :)
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Hi Owen

May i ask what Operating System, Server Software and Database system are used :?:
I am experienced on Windows XP, MS Access and a little MySQL. :)
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The DB in the current server is MySQL, with a unix backend OS (I presume)... the web server is apache and the system runs with PHP.

Happy to help (except on thursdays)

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andel wrote:The DB in the current server is MySQL, with a unix backend OS (I presume)... the web server is apache and the system runs with PHP.

Happy to help (except on thursdays)

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*Imagines much crashing and burning*

Ooh, I just shuddered at the thought. :p
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Lol, the only thing I can think about is the amount of trips that would be needed to go to the server and put a monitor on it and see what is making the boot process hang this time.. which DLL it is missing this time.. which boot file somehow got lost this time... oh no! Never hang a Windows server in a datacentre, not worth your time!!! :) Or make sure you have a KVM :p
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Well, it really seems new server is much faster... :D
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And on-topic (shows I'm nearly back to myself, posting bulls***... heh)...

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orudge wrote:The old server consists of an Athlon 64 3700+ with 1GB RAM. The improved processor and particularly the doubling of the RAM should help things significantly. :)
Are you planning to sell off the old server or use it for other zernbok websites?
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orudge wrote:Besides, we could always use the old server for file storage or something. :P
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