Glowstick Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 Now, if there was a steady money flow, I'd say get multiple servers. Like two or three moderate HTTP servers on DNS roundrobin, and a phat database backend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chconline Veteran Posted August 27, 2004 Veteran Share Posted August 27, 2004 exactly no server can handle that many people without slowing down a tiny bit. unless you have several servers but then neowin coudn't afford to run, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted August 27, 2004 Veteran Share Posted August 27, 2004 There is steady monetary flow and neowin has two servers (the main site server and adserver/mailserver). The problem is that, with things like uploads, load balancing becomes more tricky. I'd recommend an NFS server for all the files of the site, a variable number of HTTP frontends and a bunch of MySQL replication slaves. Luckily, ServerMatrix/ThePlanet has added some VERY nice load balancing options to make things at least a little bit easier to set up :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ootput Posted August 27, 2004 Author Share Posted August 27, 2004 Everything seems to be okay, atm. :crosses-fingers: I guess those tweaks worked out fine. (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxikk Veteran Posted August 27, 2004 Veteran Share Posted August 27, 2004 oh noes maybe it was the intarnet jihad attacks :p no seriously, we are aware there are issues, and they are being worked on as we "speak" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 I agree.It really is getting worse than DA for me these days. And DA is MUCH larger I'd think... I disagree with that statement :p I heard ipb 2.0 should help a lot with reduced database calls and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearded Kirklander Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 The problem is that, with things like uploads, load balancing becomes more tricky. I'd recommend an NFS server for all the files of the site, a variable number of HTTP frontends and a bunch of MySQL replication slaves. Luckily, ServerMatrix/ThePlanet has added some VERY nice load balancing options to make things at least a little bit easier to set up :) OMG! That is soooo over my head! :omg: Glad that the funds are coming in and that you have two nifty servers. :) Best of luck getting it all hooked up and configured. I dig this place, so would like to see it continue to work, improve and bring joy to the masses. :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trix Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 OMG! That is soooo over my head! dude! even i understood that! :o but umm yeh NFS has got me stumped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted August 28, 2004 Veteran Share Posted August 28, 2004 NFS = Network File System. Rather than having a disk on your local computer, it's actually stored somewhere else on a fileserver. There may even be better options than that, but I'm not a major expert in the field of remote file storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trix Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 NFS = Network File System. Rather than having a disk on your local computer, it's actually stored somewhere else on a fileserver. oooh that! i knew that! lol umm soo whats NAS ? network access storage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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