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09-13-2008, 12:41 PM
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RESPECT MAH AUTHORITAY!
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Illadelph, PA
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Downtime 09/17/08
PbNation will be down for a period of up to six hours starting at 1:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, September 17th.
During this maintenance window we will be migrating to a new master database server which should hopefully increase reliability of the site, and speed up site performance a bit.
The maintenance may not last for the entire window, but it will take several hours to dump our database, move the data to the new machine, and reimport the data on the new server. During this period of time the site will be unavailable.
For those that are curious, here's the specs of our new hardware:
- SuperMicro X7QC3 Mainboard
- 4 x Intel Xeon 7320 Quadcore 2.13GHz CPUs
- 16 x 1GB Hynix ECC DDR2 FB-DIMM
- 3 x Seagate Cheetah 300GB SCSI 15k RPM HDD
- Adaptec 3405 RAID Card
As much as we hate downtime, this migration was unavoidable, and will hopefully resolve some long standing issues for us.
The team at PbNation thanks you for your understanding and hopes you enjoy the new iron! |
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09-13-2008, 12:51 PM
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O Hai Cody
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Ohio
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09-13-2008, 12:52 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Austin, Texas
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Intel, weak.
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General Discussion Thread
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09-13-2008, 12:56 PM
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SHOW ME THAT O FACE
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Amd, LULZ
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09-13-2008, 12:58 PM
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:dodgy:
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: East Liverpool
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Just Curious,
what raid will you be running?....
Not sure how big a forum is, but 300gb...depending on the raid formation, doesnt seem like alot....unless you just ran them together = 900gb
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09-13-2008, 01:06 PM
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RESPECT MAH AUTHORITAY!
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Illadelph, PA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ItalianCustom
Just Curious,
what raid will you be running?....
Not sure how big a forum is, but 300gb...depending on the raid formation, doesnt seem like alot....unless you just ran them together = 900gb
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We'll be running RAID 5 with no hotspares, so we'll have ~600GB usable. The forum db isn't THAT big. |
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09-13-2008, 01:12 PM
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:dodgy:
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: East Liverpool
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lol @ THAT big.....
Just looking for the future.....
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09-13-2008, 01:17 PM
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poo
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ohio
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my PC is faster.
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09-13-2008, 01:22 PM
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yyyyyooooolllllooooo
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Clarkslotteacuse
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Whatever, I'll be sleeping.
Have fun Kyle.
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09-13-2008, 01:26 PM
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jon mattos
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Clo Yerp
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ill be catching the z's anyway
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peace blacks.
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09-13-2008, 02:09 PM
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RESPECT MAH AUTHORITAY!
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Illadelph, PA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SonyLover
Intel, weak.
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Currently all but one of our servers are Opteron based. However, AMD is lagging WAY behind in the server market right now, the aging Opterons get spanked by the new Intel Quadcore chips. |
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09-13-2008, 02:15 PM
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Hrvatska
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Ohio
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fo sho, amd ftl
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09-13-2008, 02:20 PM
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:dodgy:
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: East Liverpool
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blade server...FTW!..
Wont be a bad setup once its done....how many other servers are you converting?
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09-13-2008, 02:21 PM
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RESPECT MAH AUTHORITAY!
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Illadelph, PA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ItalianCustom
blade server...FTW!..
Wont be a bad setup once its done....how many other servers are you converting?
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At some point our slave database server will be the same hardware as this one, but not for a little while. |
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09-13-2008, 02:24 PM
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iron like a lion in zion
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: CYYC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SonyLover
Intel, weak.
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AMD, lol.
Xeon are over rated. I like the name though. |
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09-13-2008, 02:31 PM
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:dodgy:
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: East Liverpool
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kyle
At some point our slave database server will be the same hardware as this one, but not for a little while.
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its not a bad setup, im sure it wasn't cheap....just adding things up from searching online, I had to pull out the calculator |
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09-13-2008, 03:24 PM
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211-187
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Seattle
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How much is it costing you?
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09-13-2008, 03:42 PM
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Benzdirne
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Leesburg, FL
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I like to let my arrays run for three to four weeks before use in any critical service. I would usually write a small script to recursively copy several large files, then delete them. Sure was nice to have the lab space, along with the time to do this. (Aaahhh, the good old days, spending someone elses money!) Stinks to have a "new" drive fail after just a couple of days in service.
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09-13-2008, 04:26 PM
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www.JonDuberman.com
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Apex, NC
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terabyte or bust.
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09-13-2008, 05:05 PM
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ɔısnɯ
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: ɹd
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not hotspares?!
will this mean millisecond page load times?
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09-13-2008, 05:07 PM
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RESPECT MAH AUTHORITAY!
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Illadelph, PA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nhmercracer
I like to let my arrays run for three to four weeks before use in any critical service. I would usually write a small script to recursively copy several large files, then delete them. Sure was nice to have the lab space, along with the time to do this. (Aaahhh, the good old days, spending someone elses money!) Stinks to have a "new" drive fail after just a couple of days in service.
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Heh, we do a little burn-in but not anything huge. Funny enough, one of the drives failed during provisioning, and was replaced prior to me even logging in for the first time. |
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