Server Upgrades Complete, MacRumors Now Snappier

[edesignuk]

maybe the site should be renamed computerrumors.com if they can't really support the platform. How much would you trust the Porsche salesman that drove a Toyota. It's called practice what you preach. I didn't say they had to use OSX but Doug and company at the Apple server group have gone to great extremes to create an enterprise worthy server. I make sure all my Apple customers for whom I do web work are running on Apple servers and we rub that in the viewing publics face at the bottom of each page, made and run on a Mac.

Yes, that seems intelligent. We will abandon the sites core focus because Apple's server offerings don't make financial, technical, or business sense for us. Brilliant.

 

[dlewis23]

1 x Single Processor Clovertown (Quad Core) 2.0GHz, 2GB RAM
3 x Dual Processor Clovertown (Quad Core) 2.0GHz, 4GB RAM
1 x Dual Processor Clovertown (Quad Core) 2.0GHz, 4GB RAM, RAID 10, 4x73GB SCSI 15k RPM

All running CentOS (linux). (I hadn't actually intended to get Clovertowns, but they were substituted as Woodcrests weren't available at the time.)

Very nice setup. I have a few servers at softlayer you will love them if this is your first time with them.

 

[sethypoo]

Very cool MacRumors! I'm glad to be a contributer.

 

[kainjow]

We love your guys!
Thank you for your service to the MAC community.

Im proud to be a donator to a site I visit everyday.


I seem to have lost my title as a donator?! : (

Your paid subscription probably expired.

 

[smueboy]

...Bottom line, does it matter? They're quick.

Yes they are - in fact they are SNAPPY!

Nice Job.

 

[arn]

maybe the site should be renamed computerrumors.com if they can't really support the platform. How much would you trust the Porsche salesman that drove a Toyota. It's called practice what you preach. I didn't say they had to use OSX but Doug and company at the Apple server group have gone to great extremes to create an enterprise worthy server. I make sure all my Apple customers for whom I do web work are running on Apple servers and we rub that in the viewing publics face at the bottom of each page, made and run on a Mac.

We've never been blind Apple-followers. Tool for the job and all. And it's hard to find competitive/quality Xserve hosting. You are welcome to try and let me know what you come up with, our specs are here:

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/4491644/

and we get 2TB per server bandwidth, and lease our servers.

good luck
arn

 

[smueboy]

maybe the site should be renamed computerrumors.com if they can't really support the platform. How much would you trust the Porsche salesman that drove a Toyota. It's called practice what you preach. I didn't say they had to use OSX but Doug and company at the Apple server group have gone to great extremes to create an enterprise worthy server. I make sure all my Apple customers for whom I do web work are running on Apple servers and we rub that in the viewing publics face at the bottom of each page, made and run on a Mac.

I think i can speak for most people here when i say that i don't care what the site is run on, as long as it runs and runs well (Which is does!). The focus of the site is what is important. Plus, nothing wring with Linux.

 

[rhpenguin]

maybe the site should be renamed computerrumors.com if they can't really support the platform. How much would you trust the Porsche salesman that drove a Toyota. It's called practice what you preach. I didn't say they had to use OSX but Doug and company at the Apple server group have gone to great extremes to create an enterprise worthy server. I make sure all my Apple customers for whom I do web work are running on Apple servers and we rub that in the viewing publics face at the bottom of each page, made and run on a Mac.

A Xeon is an Xeon no matter what board you stick it on. And OS X server uses the same underlying F/OSS apps that CentOS does. Actually, I prefer CentOS /RHEL to OS X server. Please ease your elitist attitudes.

BTW, congrads on the upgrade, Arn. Its an impressive array.

 

[trogdor!]

maybe the site should be renamed computerrumors.com if they can't really support the platform. How much would you trust the Porsche salesman that drove a Toyota. It's called practice what you preach. I didn't say they had to use OSX but Doug and company at the Apple server group have gone to great extremes to create an enterprise worthy server. I make sure all my Apple customers for whom I do web work are running on Apple servers and we rub that in the viewing publics face at the bottom of each page, made and run on a Mac.

As nice as it is to say everything we have runs on apple hardware/software, I would agree with the direction of this site and their hosting/design choices. This is a free website that is about apple enthusiasm and excitement. Running and managing sites like this are all about efficiency and cost savings to serve as many users as possible. I applaud their efficient use of their financial resources to get the most out of what they can afford.

 

[Westside guy]

maybe the site should be renamed computerrumors.com if they can't really support the platform. How much would you trust the Porsche salesman that drove a Toyota. It's called practice what you preach. I didn't say they had to use OSX but Doug and company at the Apple server group have gone to great extremes to create an enterprise worthy server. I make sure all my Apple customers for whom I do web work are running on Apple servers and we rub that in the viewing publics face at the bottom of each page, made and run on a Mac.

This is just silly. Even your attempt at the Porsche/Toyota analogy doesn't work. If a Porsche salesman drives a Toyota, it's probably for the same reason Arn runs Macrumors on Linux - because it costs less.

Putting "made and run on a Mac" is great for somebody's personal home page, but I have a hard time believing a professional would be doing that on an actual paid gig. It seems a trifle tacky.

 

[scottlinux]

Running an Apache/php, etc server with OS X server is expensive. I don't even know of any large corporate hosting companies who offer this service which a site like macrumors could use.

Even apple.com apparently does not use OS X server. They use Solaris!

 

[luke-j-s]

Yep .. much quicker

 

[Plymouthbreezer]

Threads quit loading for me as of late... Kinda annoying!

 

[DoFoT9]

We've never been blind Apple-followers. Tool for the job and all. And it's hard to find competitive/quality Xserve hosting. You are welcome to try and let me know what you come up with, our specs are here:

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/4491644/

and we get 2TB per server bandwidth, and lease our servers.

good luck
arn

wow thats incredible 2TB bandwidth!!! u used 3.3TB last month tho??

ohh i see thats per server. still incredible tho. compared to my piddly 12gb per month

 

[Doctor Q]

I'd be very curious to know what major sites, especially forum sites, do run on Apple servers.

 

[totoro]

Yay
Yay
Yay
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Linux is better than the borg.
And if it's based on unix, does that mean, it's basically like OS X?D

 

[Aaron Anthony]

WOW, SUPER SNAPPIER! I think it made my iChat snappier as well guys!