How reliably does Neowin load?


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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.

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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?

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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 :)

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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.

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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:

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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.

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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?

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