LVC is going to have a new home soon...
For most of you, this thread is going to be meaningless, but maybe a little interesting.
Up until now, LVC has been hosted on whats called a "Shared Server". Basically thats a computer owned by someone else who rents out parts of the server.
Often, there are HUNDREDS of websites on such servers. Last fall I upgraded to a special server called a VPS, where we have our own portion of the server guaranteed to us at all times.
Its no longer enough. I have noticed performance problems of late. Pages load a bit slow sometimes, and we've even crashed the server once or twice.
So I have taken steps to give us a vast improvement in performance and reliability. I have bought a brand new server. Not only that, but a damn good one.
(Gold Members - your membership dues are hard at work here)
It's being housed in Atlanta at a place called GNAX. They are a major datacenter and house servers for companies like CNN and a major search engine. (im not sure which, they wont tell me, yet... But I suspect Google has one of their datacenters here) We are actually in a brand new section of the datacenter, so everything is state of the art.
Here is a pic of the new server - Doesnt look like much but it cost more then some of your cars
Here is the rack we're housed in - we're on top (naturally)
Here is the cage the Search Engine is going into. Each box you see is a server...
Just to give you an idea how big this place is, this is during construction. Keep in mind, this is a new PART of the facility.
Here is the alley we're on.
Here is the Main Power Unit Interface for the facility - I told you, state of the art.
Anyway, I thought this might interest some of you. LVC will be one of the last sites I move to this server, as I want to make sure it is completely stable before I move LVC.
In other news, there is a new version of our forum software coming out soon. There will be some new features available that are kinda cool, like the ability to upload sig images. Thats still a month or two off yet, but its looking pertty good.
So, Im working hard to make LVC the best we can make it.
For most of you, this thread is going to be meaningless, but maybe a little interesting.
Up until now, LVC has been hosted on whats called a "Shared Server". Basically thats a computer owned by someone else who rents out parts of the server.
Often, there are HUNDREDS of websites on such servers. Last fall I upgraded to a special server called a VPS, where we have our own portion of the server guaranteed to us at all times.
Its no longer enough. I have noticed performance problems of late. Pages load a bit slow sometimes, and we've even crashed the server once or twice.
So I have taken steps to give us a vast improvement in performance and reliability. I have bought a brand new server. Not only that, but a damn good one.
(Gold Members - your membership dues are hard at work here)It's being housed in Atlanta at a place called GNAX. They are a major datacenter and house servers for companies like CNN and a major search engine. (im not sure which, they wont tell me, yet... But I suspect Google has one of their datacenters here) We are actually in a brand new section of the datacenter, so everything is state of the art.
Here is a pic of the new server - Doesnt look like much but it cost more then some of your cars
Here is the rack we're housed in - we're on top (naturally)
Here is the cage the Search Engine is going into. Each box you see is a server...
Just to give you an idea how big this place is, this is during construction. Keep in mind, this is a new PART of the facility.
Here is the alley we're on.
Here is the Main Power Unit Interface for the facility - I told you, state of the art.
Anyway, I thought this might interest some of you.
LVC will be one of the last sites I move to this server, as I want to make sure it is completely stable before I move LVC. In other news, there is a new version of our forum software coming out soon. There will be some new features available that are kinda cool, like the ability to upload sig images. Thats still a month or two off yet, but its looking pertty good.
So, Im working hard to make LVC the best we can make it.
