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ZboX
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I know. Been a rough day for many of you. The craig server was so overloaded earlier today that I just said the heck with it and rebooted it. Came back up so fast that it wasn't even needed to post about the reboot.
We should have the new server online within the next week. And it will be a beast compared to what you are on now. It will be a quad core Intel CPU with 4 gigs of ram, and two 4 meg shared cache's. The hard drives will be three 250 gig 7200 rpm Sata II drives configured to Raid 1. There will be 4 layers of backup. You'll have daily, weekly, and monthly backups onto the third hard drive, and once a week everything will be backed up to a 4th NAS (Network Attached Storeage) drive on a different server. I know, that's a whole bunch of geek speak, but it will rock. In fact I'll probably just move all of DAP over to that server for the interim and ya'll should still notice a heck of a speed increase. The new server will be in a premium Data Center located in Lansing Michigan so speeds should still be good for PC users as that's basically central US. If any of ya'll have any questions about all of that geek stuff I just said, ask me about it. I can talk in english from time to time.
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Bert
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Oh, one other thing to note for you folks that have Cpanel accounts. We are ditching the "RVskin" interface to Cpanel. Reason being that after the upgrade to Cpanel 11, the folks at RVskin decided to update their interface also. The only problem with that is that it's horrible. However have no fear, as the new server will have the Cpanel X, X2, and X3 themes installed. So there will be interfaces to Cpanel with lots of graphics if you so choose. Frankly the only caveat to losing the RVskin interface will be it will change your bookmarks for Cpanel. The best way to access Cpanel after the change will be:
http://yourdomain.com/cpanel
Or if you have a subdomain account:
http://username.domain.com/cpanel
For Webtv users that want access to Cpanel we will be using the X Cpanel theme. That has always just worked for Webtv users.
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Bert
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« Last Edit: February 27, 2008, 05:56:06 PM by ZboX »
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Ah, I've been asked to explain some of those acronym's I used. No problem:
RAID = "Redundant Array of Independent Disks". In a "standard" server configuration you have two hard drives. One is the working drive that everyone's files are stored on, and the second backs up all of those files. The problem with a configuration like that is if the main drive fails, you will have to go and load everything off of the backup drive onto the new main drive. The problem there is that can take several hours. And all of those hours will be downtime.
With a RAID 1 array, you'll have two hard drives that are running together in a mirror configuration. Everything on the main hard drive is mirrored over to the other. If one drive fails, the server will automatically switch over to the mirrored drive. And the hard drives are both what's known as "hot swappable". That means that if one drive fails, the server automatically switches over to the other mirrored drive. And the Sysadmins can then pull the dead drive out of it's case, plug in the new hard drive, and everything will be mirrored once again onto the new drive! And with NO downtime!
When I first started ZboX we had a hard drive failure. And I sweated bullets whilst everything was copied from the backup drive over to the new main hard drive. The downtime was around six hours.
Thats why I'm going with a RAID array for the new server. If something bad happens to the hard drive you won't notice it. The techs will just yank the dead one, plug in a new one, and the server won't even blink!
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Bert
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