Seriously nico???

[RobPaulson]

wasnt trying to be rude greg, i'm fully aware and empathetic to the time/effort/resources necessary to do whats mentioned here, was just trying to provide some feedback, I suppose this wasnt the medium to do it

[Urabus GodofTraction]

In this thread: the correct response to "put up or shut up..."

[PoorManQ45]

Thanks, Captain Obvious. We're all much more enlightened now.

We've already completed Stage I of our big upgrades (migrating all static content to WP), and are implementing gzip on both the forum templates and the static stuff (as well as the ad server) just like you suggested...

Is that why Nico goes down around 1am EST?

[AZhitman]

We've already completed Stage I of our big upgrades (migrating all static content to WP), and are implementing gzip on both the forum templates and the static stuff (as well as the ad server) just like you suggested...

Is that why Nico goes down around 1am EST?

Cause and effect: You're doing it wrong.

[frapjap]

Out of curiosity, is stage II going to bring new updates to a mobile version of NICO?

[AZhitman]

Some of that will be addressed with this phase of improvements, but getting it where I think it needs to be will take a little longer, after the actual forum and archive transitions.

TG, I may take you up on your offer to some extent... We're just plain slammed with work.

[PoorManQ45]

Cause and effect: You're doing it wrong.

You didn't establish the cause...

I asked if your actions were the cause of the issue that is occurring.

[tg]

Some of that will be addressed with this phase of improvements, but getting it where I think it needs to be will take a little longer, after the actual forum and archive transitions.

TG, I may take you up on your offer to some extent... We're just plain slammed with work.

np man i have a few php monkeys ready to unleash (under supervision, of course) heh.

Is that why Nico goes down around 1am EST?

Anyways, no the site goes down at 1am for regular maintenance, backups and purging and rebuilding indices likely.

SO anyways, you have my email greg. I also have a qc xeon with 8gb of ram and a few TB of space on a very very fast backbone doing nothing. I could hook you up for the cost of bandwidth (we pay 4$/mbps). I really hope you guys aren't paying anywhere near the pricing I saw on pair.com :\ wow.

[PoorManQ45]

SO anyways, you have my email greg. I also have a qc xeon with 8gb of ram and a few TB of space on a very very fast backbone doing nothing. I could hook you up for the cost of bandwidth (we pay 4$/mbps). I really hope you guys aren't paying anywhere near the pricing I saw on pair.com :\ wow.

Hehe, I have a faster server in my house then that... Dell R410...

Anyways, no the site goes down at 1am for regular maintenance, backups and purging and rebuilding indices likely.

Why isn't this done on the fly?

Backups should not be pulled from the live server(s). They should be done from a mirrored system.

Why would you need to rebuild anything?

[tg]

Hehe, I have a faster server in my house then that... Dell R410...

Why isn't this done on the fly?

Backups should not be pulled from the live server(s). They should be done from a mirrored system.

Why would you need to rebuild anything?

cool so nicoclub gets two servers. thats nice of you.

[AZhitman]

Hehe, I have a faster server in my house then that... Dell R410...

Why isn't this done on the fly?

Backups should not be pulled from the live server(s). They should be done from a mirrored system.

Why would you need to rebuild anything?

Why did I not predict that our resident know-it-all would come in here and tell us all how he could do it faster, easier, and better?

I must be slipping ni my old age.

Brien, if you were 1/10th as smart as you think you are, you'd be getting paid a lot of money for your expertise.

TG, you think you could get our boy Brien here a job?

You should probably go start a forum. I hear it's fun, interesting, and stress-free.

[PoorManQ45]

Why did I not predict that our resident know-it-all would come in here and tell us all how he could do it faster, easier, and better?

I must be slipping ni my old age.

That does happen when you get old

Brien, if you were 1/10th as smart as you think you are, you'd be getting paid a lot of money for your expertise.

It kind of sucks not having paper credentials

You should probably go start a forum. I hear it's fun, interesting, and stress-free.

Nope, I commend you and the others for the work that you have put in to make, and keep, Nico free for all!

[tg]

It kind of sucks not having paper credentials

Nope, I commend you and the others for the work that you have put in to make, and keep, Nico free for all!

funny how the only jobs that aren't being taken over by illegal immigrants are the ones that require papers... makes me sort of happy that i didn't study in construction.

Anyways, the server I offered was a SPARE I had lying around, rest assured we have some 4U monsters that would put your R410 to shame ;D

to that I say:

Ask any sysadmin, any real sysadmin. It doesn't matter if you have 4 cores or 40; throughput is throughput.

[TurboSauce]

Ask any sysadmin, any real sysadmin. It doesn't matter if you have 4 cores or 40; throughput is throughput.

[PoorManQ45]

Ask any sysadmin, any real sysadmin. It doesn't matter if you have 4 cores or 40; throughput is throughput.

hehe, I am waiting for STEC SSDs to become more realistically priced. Talk about throughput and I/O!!!

Anyways, the server I offered was a SPARE I had lying around, rest assured we have some 4U monsters that would put your R410 to shame ;D

What type of systems are you rocking? I can always get new toys just because...

[tg]

hehe, I am waiting for STEC SSDs to become more realistically priced. Talk about throughput and I/O!!!

What type of systems are you rocking? I can always get new toys just because...

let me know when your db server is doing 140,000 iops ok. Anyways, azhitman you know where to find me. I'll leave it at that.

[AppleBonker]

STEC SSDs

SSDs FTW. I love mine in my PCs, but I don't even want to price them out on the server side. Thankfully, that's not an issue for me.

Greg, can't wait to play around on here once the upgrades are all complete!

[PoorManQ45]

let me know when your db server is doing 140,000 iops ok. Anyways, azhitman you know where to find me. I'll leave it at that.

Check out STEC once. You might be a little shocked. A single STEC Zeus is good for Read: up to 80,000, Write:40,000!!! That is effing sexy

SSDs FTW. I love mine in my PCs, but I don't even want to price them out on the server side. Thankfully, that's not an issue for me.

I had a pair of Samsung 256GB SSDs in my laptop. They were set up in a Raid 0. Initially the average read speed was 440MBps! But after ~6 months of heavy use the average read dropped to ~150MBps!!! I sold them and went to a pair of 500GB 7200s in a raid 0. Not as fast, but pretty quick.

[AppleBonker]

But after ~6 months of heavy use the average read dropped to ~150MBps!!!

Too bad TRIM isn't supported across raid. My windows drive on my desktop is a pair of OCZ 30 GB drives raid 0, but I don't use windows much. My Ubuntu drive is a single 30 OCZ. When I get around to buying windows 7 I'll probably pick up a 160 gig Intel G2 and move one of the OCZs to my netbook (and the other to my HTPC) and take the 80 GB Intel G2 out of my netbook and use as my windows drive on my desktop. Unfortunately the 160 GB Intel is too pricey for me right now.

Why did you run that much space raid 0? I'd be worried about data integrity. I've only ever run raid 0 for os/program drives (which never requires more than about 70 gigs for me - even in windows). I've got larger capacity drives raid 1 for my data.

[tg]

Check out STEC once. You might be a little shocked. A single STEC Zeus is good for Read: up to 80,000, Write:40,000!!! That is effing sexy

I had a pair of Samsung 256GB SSDs in my laptop. They were set up in a Raid 0. Initially the average read speed was 440MBps! But after ~6 months of heavy use the average read dropped to ~150MBps!!! I sold them and went to a pair of 500GB 7200s in a raid 0. Not as fast, but pretty quick.

8 ocz vertex raid 0 in my home pc. Been running this setup since last spring, no slowdowns. Thanks for coming out though.

[AppleBonker]

Well, I guess my e-peen is tiny. Sorry for derailing your thread tg. I'm out! I apparently can't compete.

[tg]

Well, I guess my e-peen is tiny. Sorry for derailing your thread tg. I'm out! I apparently can't compete.

trust me you're not the one putting the logs on the rail.

[ADDirishboy]

This thread hurts my brain.

[AZhitman]

Well, if you had paper credentials it wouldn't.

BTW, our SysAdmin makes $120K and doesn't have a credential to his name.

Thanks for coming out (I'm gonna keep using that one... )

[Rex]

My 2 favs are

su - rootandsetpri

Of course, I have no idea what I'm talking about

[PoorManQ45]

8 ocz vertex raid 0 in my home pc. Been running this setup since last spring, no slowdowns. Thanks for coming out though.

RamDrive > SSDs

I never got around to setting it up on my laptop. I've got 16GB of DDR3

[PoorManQ45]

BTW, our SysAdmin makes $120K and doesn't have a credential to his name.

Really? How did he end up in that position? Did he found that datacenter?

[tg]

RamDrive > SSDs

I never got around to setting it up on my laptop. I've got 16GB of DDR3

this is not ramdrive, this is my ssd array.

Thanks for coming out (I'm gonna keep using that one... )

I expect to see it!

[PoorManQ45]

this is not ramdrive, this is my ssd array.

What Raid controller are you using, and what bus is it one?

What is the rest of your system? What's it used for if it's a "home" system?

Also, what was your test setup? The maximum theoretical read speed you could get from that configuration should be 230 x 8. 1840

[Jesda]

My 2 favs are

su - rootandsetpri

Of course, I have no idea what I'm talking about

You and I both, LOL.