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Server Upgrades Complete, MacRumors Now Snappier

It's been much better today than in the past. Thanks again Arn (for the upgrade, and a great site🙂).
 
arn said:
heh, comes with 6GB transfer a month. 3GB block extra for $25.

I think we pushed 2600GB last month. So that would be $21,616 per month for bandwidth costs alone. Not including server costs. 🙂

arn
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I wasn't answering the cost argument 😀
 
In theory how long can we go on these servers before even thinking of an upgrade. Is this a long term fix.
 
MacNut said:
In theory how long can we go on these servers before even thinking of an upgrade. Is this a long term fix.
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We won't know until we get there. This is a big jump though because it upgraded all servers with modern hardware. Old servers were a few years old. So while the jump in # of servers wasn't huge, the capacity of each server is much higher.

arn
 
arn said:
We won't know until we get there. This is a big jump though because it upgraded all servers with modern hardware. Old servers were a few years old. So while the jump in # of servers wasn't huge, the capacity of each server is much higher.

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Ooooh I'm getting that warm fuzzy feeling. I hope these new ones last a long time.🙂
 
Great news! This will help ensure that MacRumors continues to be an excellent resource & community for a long time to come! 😎

A big, heartfelt thank you to Arn & Co. 🙂
 
WooHoo, new servers...

I guess I have been lucky and have not had any "sever Busy" error, but it's nice to know I should not expect any.😀

I wish I could get new servers, my Suns are getting kind of old.
 
I remember that Hotmail still ran on BSD for a couple years after MS bought it. They tried switching to Windows pretty quickly, but they ran into massive availability issues and had to switch back. It's on Windows now though.

I don't see any reason MacRumors should be running on OS X though. It's a great desktop OS, but as a server OS it doesn't offer much you can't get with Linux (or BSD, or Solaris, or ...). It certainly doesn't offer better performance.
 
Ah, i like.

Congrats Arn. I envy you and some of the other creators of huge (and i mean huge forums / websites) that have just shot through the roof in activity / popularity.
 
Congrats on the upgrade. This site remains the authority on Mac news for a reason. Keep up the good work.

Its scary to think the site has grown so fast!
 
arn said:
fyi, we're on Clovertown-based servers with softlayer.com. Not running on Mac OS X, however. They run variants of Linux.
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That's great even the powers that be Mac Rumors think "Mac cost to much" and get something else..

I agree. macs are great desktops. The user interface is why you buy a Mac. Servers generally run headless with no user interface at all except maybe ssh.
 
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