Shifty Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 I think its time Neowin got an exclusive ftp server for all the members to benefit from. I seen countless times members having trouble finding a decent server to upload their hardwork for the other members to enjoy. Crap places set retrictions on bandwidth, file sizes, stupid and extremely annoying banner ads. well, now is the time to setup a Neowin Priv FTP server!! for now, im fronting the machine, software and time for this. im looking for some people who are knowledgeable with networks. PM me if you know anything at all about advanced networking like installing 2+ NICs and server software. im also looking for a neowin admin or mod who wouldnt mind helping me out with this project. as of now i have set some basic rules for the FTP: 1. NO hacking!!! 2. NO WAREZ!! 3. NOTHING ILLEGAL!!!! its pretty simple. so far this is what the server hardware consists of: P2 300 96MB RAM 5GB hard drive 10/100 nic (running at 10Mbits) denations are appriciated, just PM me if you have anything. im planning to up the ram and get another harddrive to smooth things out. judging by the crappy network infrastructure im limited to 10Mbits, which is really going to cut down on the amount of users that can connect at one time. thats why im looking to find someone that can help me install 2 or more NICs to increase bandwidth and efficency. I would like to thank Faction for getting the ball rolling with this :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faction Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 Stickied ;) And, when will the server be available to everyone? I think everyone should thank shifty as well, you will now all be able to have your sigs/desktops hosted :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shifty Posted April 2, 2002 Author Share Posted April 2, 2002 Im shooting to have this thing up and running ASAP sometime before the end of the week. the stats arent too bad for a small ftp, but i seriously need to up the RAM and get a new harddrive. since i work for the universities network/PC help desk i think i can scan the school into giving me the RAM and harddrive and the NICs. i still desperately need someone to help me install 2+ NICs. i am also working on an efficient way of setting up the ftp. so if anyone has a good system let me know. thanks in advance!! thanks Faction for making this thread a "stickie" :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faction Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 I believe 5 GB is enough for now ;) It take like 2000 desktop images to get to even a gb ;) btw, did you really get hit by a semi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deckhand Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 Sounds good, I more or less [fact edit]KNOW what you need to do to set up an ftp server using IIS (File permissions, max connections, etc..), but im not sure if you wanna do that. Im not saying im a network specialist, but you can contact me if you wanna few tips or something, but hell yea!! SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted April 2, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 2, 2002 Huh? 10Mbits isn't enough?? Where the hell are you hosted that you have that much bandwidth anyhow? I want some :D anyhoo... ftp.timdorr.com user: neowin pass: weonin accessable at http://dorm.timdorr.com/neowin/ Simple enough.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shifty Posted April 2, 2002 Author Share Posted April 2, 2002 i guess i should have mentioned this... im at a medium sized university in the Virginia in the US. we have a quad-T3d which gives the campus about 405MB/sec bandwidth. i feel that having 2 10/100Mbit @ 10Mbits nics would be better than 1 10/100Mbit @ 10Mbit nic in the respect that 2 nics can handle twice as many hits and transfers than one. its weird but trust me ive seen it in action. think of it as a dual processor system... it wont essentially make the transfers twice as fast, but you can do almost twice as much. also i figue that since there are so many neowin forum members that can potentially use this service, then having the extra NIC and bandwidth wont hurt. especially in the long run when the number of members is sure to grow quite large in the near future. this way i wont have to create downtime and mess with all the BS when upgrading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangesOfCourse Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 Originally posted by Shifty i guess i should have mentioned this... im at a medium sized university in the Virginia in the US. we have a quad-T3d which gives the campus about 405MB/sec bandwidth. i feel that having 2 10/100Mbit @ 10Mbits nics would be better than 1 10/100Mbit @ 10Mbit nic in the respect that 2 nics can handle twice as many hits and transfers than one. its weird but trust me ive seen it in action. think of it as a dual processor system... it wont essentially make the transfers twice as fast, but you can do almost twice as much. also i figue that since there are so many neowin forum members that can potentially use this service, then having the extra NIC and bandwidth wont hurt. especially in the long run when the number of members is sure to grow quite large in the near future. this way i wont have to create downtime and mess with all the BS when upgrading. you think ahead.. huh? well good job so far and good luck in the future.. hope to see it soon! laterz ;) Timed0rr you have pm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Otto Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 thanks timdorr...my sig be there :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdenike Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 well i dont know how people will feel about this ... but umm yeah install redhat 7.2 on the machince fast / easy or mandrake 8.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 i think the server should be available only to ppl with 50 or 100 posts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted April 2, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 2, 2002 Originally posted by Shifty i guess i should have mentioned this... <> Uh...How are you going to prevent your school from shutting you down when you start using a whole ****load of bandwidth? Not to be pessimisstic, but it seems shaky at the very least... :( Anormal: www.timdorr.com/neosig/ use that, it's offsite and I'll be out of here in a few weeks anyways... Rudy: There's really no way to limit things like that... Not unless I get accesss to the neowin mysql server :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brn2prgrm Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 Not that that's a bad idea or anything, but I think that would just cause people to post randoms messages or useless junk just to increase their post counts. Then the forums would be litered with junk posts. Originally posted by Rudy i think the server should be available only to ppl with 50 or 100 posts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ab1225 Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 I will help with administration and setting it up! ab1225 Neowin Tech Support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beggari Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 i'm not a neowin admin or mod but i'd be willing to admin the ftp server.. just a thought. i could be made an admin/mod for doing it too.. :cheeky: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangesOfCourse Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 same here.. i wont mind helping out laterz ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Otto Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 ill help out...im a mod at ethics-design.com but not here...but id like to help ya out seein how ur hostin my sig & my bros ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildliquid Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 sonds like a sick idea to me go with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheif_Bigfoot Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 Sorry that I don't have any way of helping but I like the idea and wish you luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessejlt Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 roflmao Obviousely you guys have not a clue of what you're doing. judging by the crappy network infrastructure im limited to 10Mbits, which is really going to cut down on the amount of users that can connect at one time. roflmao 10 farcking megabits bro...plenty of pipe. lmao And just how long do you think your school is going to let you suck all that bandwidth? I'll give it a week, that is if your admins are the dumbest aol lovers on the planet. As far as setting up the server, not like its rocket science bro. You've got the inititive, why not go a step further and research it a little? lmao Something simple like G6 would do you just fine...easy cheesie to setup. I'm not knocking your idea man, its nice that you want to give something to a community...but jo0 don't know shiz about what you're talking about...obviousely. jesse ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shifty Posted April 2, 2002 Author Share Posted April 2, 2002 sorry i havent been around for several hours... i was out drinking (yes, on a monday night)... now that i have sobered up a bit... to begin, i totally appriciate all your input on this matter. I have concidered the fact that the university can/will shut down the ftp, but i know the netadmins here and yes the do love the aol!! with the knowledge of the fat, sweaty punks, i know how to setup a dns so that i can change my "static" IP to a dynamic one by changing the mac address on the NIC. I can do that once a week if need be. as far as bandwidth is concerned 10Mbits is honestly crap. remember folks, thats 10 Mbits not 10 Megabytes. 10Mbits is 1.25MB/sec. not that much. and think of all the members that are on broadband and better. even with 100 people on 56k modems thats still alot of bandwidth to share. the average i get on my cable modem is like ~400k/sec when i connect to equal or greater bandwidth servers. imagine other broadband users hitting up the ftp. quite honestly i hate ftps that have rediculously small max connections and restrictions thats why i want it to have the best for the community and put the best forward and im sure you will agree. im working on getting more ram and a newer harddrive. the one in there now is at its end. it has more bad sectors than people who hate AOL. if you PMed me earlier today i have sent you a reply again sorry it was late. :D [edit] i think setting a minimum post number would NOT be fair to people who are just starting out. i do not want to discriminate against any member. and besides... look at me ive been here for like 6 months or more and i havent even broken 100 posts. dont get me wrong i love this place, but sometimes i dont feel like posting or too lazy. im sure that goes for a lot of members here like me. [/edit] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CustardFD Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 My only suggestion is that if eveyone has access to the FTP, there needs to be seperare user areas. Otherwise some lamer will start editing everyone's sigs, etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerf Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 My only suggestion is that if eveyone has access to the FTP, there needs to be seperare user areas. Otherwise some lamer will start editing everyone's sigs, etc... If the ftp is setup with the correct permissions, people shouldnt be able to edit others signatures. As long as they cant delete and edit files it should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted April 2, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 2, 2002 uh...no, you still have no clue. DNS doesn't determine your IP....You can't change the MAC address on a NIC, that's in hardware...You're talking about using 1/32 of your school's bandwidth, which WILL get you shut down... You're not going to be running the next f ucking simtel.com or somthing. You'll be lucky if you get more than 3 people connected at once. I have a site for a community of more than 100,000 and I barely reach 4 connections as a max. Plus, what happens at the end of the simester when you move out to a different room, or go home for the summer? This will last you two months at most. Educate yourself please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primalgoo Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 As far as ease of use and setup, ServU FTP is about as easy as it gets. And trouble with the two network cards??? Just install them as normal... I don't see what the confusion is.... Setting up an FTP has gotten easier that using confusing programs like KaZaa... And much higher quality as well... BTW It's pretty uncool of you to knock this guy just cause he doesn't have experience with this stuff and you all do... It just means you've obviously spent more time doing it than he has... - Primalgoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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