(had to post again just cuz it's flyin' so good .. lol !)
Yup, new hardware, installed during the great Free Republic blackout of 2013. Took awhile to get it configured just right for service, besides, hardware needs a good smoke test. Nothing worse than hooking in a new box only to lose data. I’m anxious to see this thing handle peak load. So far since coming into service it hasn’t come near breaking a sweat. The hamsters def on ‘roids with this one. 8 cores of ‘em with brains 68,719,476,736 times the size of a typical Dem. And wheels... 500MB/s sustained read and write! Yowsah!
Unfortunately, it’s a completely foreign Linux distro I’m experimenting with (Ubuntu Server... shame on me.) Seems the version of MySQL that ships is slightly barfing on some of the perfectly fine queries I had crafted, so we’ll have to do some tweakin’ before we’re peakin’.
(had to post again just cuz it's flyin' so good .. lol !)
Nice and thanks for the technical details - I agree that things are smoking (in a good way!).
I've noticed that once you let the smoke out of the magic gray boxes they don't work as well.
One question I’ve always wondered about. I see the local chit chat on my feed (i.e. my state) and aside from the fact that it’s not something I necessarily want or need it always seems to be 2 months behind - I see conversations in March from back in January. Can this be turned off or o/w configured?
Wheeee!!!
Thank you, John! Appears to be working great! And it may have solved our double post problem with large ping lists, too!
YAY!!! YAY!!! YAY!!! YAY!!!
I thought it got faster because I was using Linux Mint 14.
All FReepers will greatly enjoy this new rockin' server! I hope we can come up with a twin backup not too far away.
What’s distro mean? Is that like a stunned beeber? hehe
Seriously you lost me after “new hardware”. Whatever you did though thanks for sticking with it! We all appreciate your hard work.
It whizzing right along here in Benderville where we receive our signal via carrier pigeon. Got any idea why my modem drops the Suddenlink cable connection a few times a day? Tell Jim I’m sending a extra donation...
I’ve been critical of the technical support in the past; however, big KUDOS are due to John & Jim for this significant increase in performance.
Keep up the great work, fellow partiots!!!!!
I know I say thank you to JIM, but I hope you know you are always included!
THANK YOU JOHN!
When's the next immigration vote in Congress?
-PJ
Many thanks to you both.
The site is smokin’.