Over the past 10 years I have always kept us running, now the time has come to go to the next teer
Downloads have went from 1 MB to now up to 1 GB and our server is having problems keeping up.
You all have noticed the slowdowns. I have my hands full keeping the site running.
I made us a deal on a new web server which will take us into the future.
I plan on moving all the uploads/downloads to the new server to free up resources, this will also be a windows server so now we can finally have a game server with FSHost'ing and maybe TeamSpeak. Most big websites have 2 servers running so we will join them. I made a deal on a new web server.
Intel quad core 2.5 GHz
1 terabyte Hard drive
4 gigs of ram
2000 GB bandwidth
100 MB network (hole to the internet)
8 IP's 5 usable
Idrac card
Windows 2008
This will cost us another $3000 per year We will run the bandwidth drive until March 01, 2010
I see no options to give, as we in the staff forum talked about this all day.
We could, which I have done already to keep the server loads down is to cut downloads from 100 at a time to just 15 and the number of downloads to 3 per IP
Cut the sized of downloads to 50 MB.
I do not like this ideal.
We could invite advertising, but this is against all we have fought for, and I for 1 hate pop-ups and flashing banners most want to be at the top of the page, than the problem getting paid.
This weekend Canelo and myself are going to install a new version of vBulletin 4.1 which just came out and this will fix all the errors.
Next I will be setting up the new server, moving all the download file
note the site may be unavailable since this is labor intensive. John C will be assisting.
Next Mopar Mike will be installing the software and working out the bugs for the game server.
I only hope you all approve and dig a little deeper and get the other members to join in and become a charter member, we need your support to carry on into the next decade.
Thank you
Ickie
UPDATE!! Jan 23, 2010
P/S ... The new server will be delayed until next month, so I can get us a better deal.
UPDATE #@ Jan 30TH 2010
Here are my plans, I am buying the server this coming week even thou we still haven't collected all the funds.
I will get the new windows server up and running and all the files transfered and I will install these forums over there.
Http://www.sim-outhouse.net/sohforums/index.php
Due to something wrong with this server which I cannot figure out, (nor my friends can figure out either)
I plan on getting a new Dell server and move all the stuff from this server to the new server.
I will than install the new forums vbulliten 4.0 on the new server.
My plans will always have us having a set of forums setup and our downloads will always be available.
UPDATE!!! Feb 03, 2010
Yesterday I bought the windows server and ordered the linux server, both servers are Identical.
I am awaiting the windows server to go online so we can set it up.
This will be a new name sim-outhouse.net "SOH Flight Center"
We are going to run this website with new staff and run it as an independent website.
The forums we will have setup, well you all will have to re-signup.
The Staff will be:
Site Administer: Mopar Mike
Server Admin: Gigabyte
Flight Admin: Dangerous Dave
Virtual Paper Pusher: ickie
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