What kind of Server does Afterdawn use

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  1. SypherTek

    SypherTek Guest

    like it says in the title.
    im just interested to know what kind of server holds up possibly the most popular forum site on the web
     
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  2. ireland

    ireland Active member

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    and afterdawn is going to add another..and the site will zoom..
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  3. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    don't run too hard ireland!!!!
     
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    The Hampster looks like its on drugs.
     
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  5. sui-cyco

    sui-cyco Regular member

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    are you planning on starting your own site or something? i could only imagine that they have a fleet of servers to handle the workload.
     
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    im sure it has more than one server or else it would look like this
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    or this
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    lol

    ^^sobhy2406^^
     
    sobhy2406, Jan 9, 2006
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  7. rundata

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    a fleet, well wouldnt go that far, you wouldnt need a fleet. maybe 3 nice beauties. on a big phat connection. or you could locate some geographically for better speed where needed. rent em out so to speak. doint it this way. maybe 6 at max
     
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    if you really wanna know what server they use PM an admin staff and they will be able to tell you.
     
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  9. darthnip

    darthnip Moderator Staff Member

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    shhhh, it's a big'un, with pretty lights and whistles on it. but it dont make coffee.
     
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  10. weazel200

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    can you hook me up with one darth. j/k
     
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  11. ireland

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    darthnip
    is busy hard at work making one for ye..when its done he will bring it out to show ye..
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    @ ireland
    how many pictures do you have and how long have you been collecting them for?
     
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    Lethal_B Moderator Staff Member

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    Just to note, I remember dRD saying 6 dedicated servers for this site..
     
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  14. dRD

    dRD I hate titles Staff Member

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    We have:

    -three webservers, each with Dual Xeon 2.8GHz/2GB memory/73GB SCSI HDD
    -two database servers, both with Dual Xeon 2.8GHz/4GB memory/73GB SCSI
    -one ad server (Dual Xeon 2.8/4GB/73GB SCSI)
    -one download server (P4 2.4/1GB/80GB IDE)
    -one image server (Dual Xeon 2.8/2GB/73GB SCSI)

    All interconnected to each other via second NIC and our own switch. All running RHES3, webservers running Apache and BlueDragon, db servers running MySQL. Currently no serious plans to increase the number of boxes, although we're looking for variety of load balancing/failover solutions to determine which would suit best for our needs to load-balance the webservers in more sophisticated way.
     
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    Must of cost a lot to get all that equipment dRD.
     
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    xeon? are the offices of AD lined with gold? with marble floors? or do you know somebody who knows somebody with the discounted merchandise?(wink,wink)
     
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  17. dRD

    dRD I hate titles Staff Member

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    As virtually all of the world's websites operate, we do not own our servers, we use an ISP and pay rent for the servers, bandwidth, certain level of support and so on. Our ISP is called ThePlanet, which is one of the largest ISPs in the world, focusing on dedicated servers. We get decent discount due the relatively large amount of hardware we have, but yes, they do cost quite a lot of money, so when deciding to use ad blockers when visiting our site, think twice :)

    @sui-cyco: We'd actually prefer to have quad Opterons for our database servers, but our ISP doesn't have them available, at least yet. Our good olde db servers tend to hit load levels of 4.00 or more during peak times..
     
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  18. sobhy2406

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    sounds like some nice and expensive eqipment
     
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  19. sui-cyco

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    how much office space does the whole setup take?

    and i heard that servers have to be kept under direct air conditoning. is that true? can you fry an egg on one of those bad boys?
     
    sui-cyco, Jan 12, 2006
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  20. rundata

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    Bleh Intel!
     
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