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oatmeal
Meat Popsicle


Seeking Beauty
1738 Posts
8/04
Posted - Feb 2 2005 : 11:15AM
I feel sorry for Steph and Drew... that techno-burp must have been a headache.
DenverDon
Benevolent

Firmly Embedded in Depravity
5914 Posts
7/02
Posted - Feb 2 2005 : 11:19AM
It usually is.

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Recoil Therapy
Member

Deep in flyover country
194 Posts
10/04
Posted - Feb 2 2005 : 11:55AM
But many thanks for getting it going again.

RT

Jacco All-Star Supporter
All-Star Member

"liable to deprave and corrupt"
2673 Posts
5/04
Posted - Feb 2 2005 : 2:29PM
Well, it wasn't my fault this time. Last time the site went down like this it was just after I posted a new avatar with myself in it, I'll never do that again, I promise!

Jacco

oatmeal
Meat Popsicle

Seeking Beauty
1738 Posts
8/04
Posted - Feb 2 2005 : 3:04PM
So you have a face that breaks web servers? First I'll have to change my answer to who the best looking ADTr is and second, we need to harness that power for good...

people we need a list of message boards that poor jacco can destroy with his silicone-melting bad looks.

Edited by - oatmeal on 2/2/2005 3:13:25 PM

 
Valentino
Member

Celina Jaitly, the new Goddess......
448 Posts
8/04
Posted - Feb 2 2005 : 5:29PM
Apparently I missed out on something. How long was the server down?

''The unexamined life is not worth living''

oatmeal
Meat Popsicle

Seeking Beauty
1738 Posts
8/04
Posted - Feb 2 2005 : 6:06PM
over 12 hours from some time last night until mid morning (10:30ish)
Jacco All-Star Supporter
All-Star Member

"liable to deprave and corrupt"
2673 Posts
5/04
Posted - Feb 2 2005 : 7:13PM
Maybe I should become a member at that other board...

Jacco

EL_
Member

Browsing with Mouse Gestures
193 Posts
7/04
Posted - Feb 2 2005 : 11:44PM
So was it just fixing a problem or did the forum get an upgrade?
Hardware All-Star Supporter
All-Star Member

Your other left
14594 Posts
3/02
Posted - Feb 3 2005 : 7:06AM
I'm not sure, but I think Steph and Drew were out of town. You know how much servers hate it when their owners are away.
Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - Feb 3 2005 : 9:29AM
The external drive array on the database server overheated and went into thermal shutdown mode. It figures that when we leave town the daily high temps go from the mid-teens to the low 40s. We have the servers in a small room that requires a window to be opened when temps get to be 35+.

GaySatyr
Senior Member

Half dirty ol' man; half horny ol' goat!
1684 Posts
10/00
Posted - Feb 3 2005 : 11:43AM
Drew, you could get one of those ventilator fans that closes automatically when it is off (like the one in my kitchen wall) and rig it with a thermostat set to trigger at some appropriate temperature.

~ GaySatyr (ABB)

Jacco All-Star Supporter
All-Star Member

"liable to deprave and corrupt"
2673 Posts
5/04
Posted - Feb 3 2005 : 12:15PM
It just shows that servers are just like any other pet.

Jacco

STEMCELL
Senior Member

Russia+China are Terror states
1540 Posts
8/04
Posted - Feb 3 2005 : 2:32PM
Nope!
That´s why these "pet" manufacturers ship their gadgets with clear environmental specification a customer has to follow!

e.g. HP
Temperature Range Operating 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C)
(No direct sustaining sunlight)
Storage (up to one year) -40° to 158° F (-40° to 70° C)

cv
Member

My reviews[/url]
594 Posts
7/03
Posted - Feb 3 2005 : 3:19PM
Damn, those dead hamsters must have smelled bad when you returned.
 
Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - Feb 8 2005 : 2:06AM
I actually have a ceiling vent fan that's on 24/7 pulling warm air out of the room. It's undersized appearantly. I'm beginning to think a good climate control system would be cheaper than replacing cooked computer parts.
Evil_Rip
Senior Member

Power overwhelming
1117 Posts
12/99
Posted - Feb 8 2005 : 2:47AM
Hey Drew,

So what do you need out there that would help with these situations?
Anything I/we can do to help?

cv
Member

My reviews[/url]
594 Posts
7/03
Posted - Feb 9 2005 : 12:18AM
How often/why do you need physical access to the machines?

I know you're out in the sticks, but shouldn't colo services be considered at this point?

Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - Feb 10 2005 : 2:48PM
i've looked into colo pricing a number of times in the past. for the number of sites we host, the bandwidth we use and the email accounts we handle it's far more cost effective to host our own stuff. we use about 18GB a day in bandwidth these days. i try to keep spare servers ready as well. if I had to colo the spares too it could get very expensive.

the pricing is even worse when I looked to outsource our hosting needs. go out and get a quote for a MS SQL server running quad processors, dual U320 RAID arrays, DLT backup service, 4 GB RAM on Windows 2003 64Bit, and roughly 10 GB of SQL data stored across a handful of databases. that system alone would break the budget.

EL_
Member

Browsing with Mouse Gestures
193 Posts
7/04
Posted - Feb 12 2005 : 3:46AM
Have you looked at AMD lately? They have some nice options that won't break the bank. I think HP is coming out with a new Blade server with an fx55 90nm chip that should help out. but with your server load you may need opterons.

anandtech had some nice tutorials but I think they are kinda out of date.




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