NEW SERVER INFO

[Pekka]

POTN has just moved to new server with much more powerful hardware and software. This means especially bye bye to total blackouts when I do backups or we are hit by slashdot effect. I short: page load response time and stability under ridiculous load should be good.

We have a new search engine which is very accurate and very fast. You should know that it currently updates search database every 5 minutes so what you just typed will be indexed in next 5 minutes. It can handle terms like
2.8
f/4
70-200
1.2L
which were impossible in normal Vbulletin/MySQL (FULLTEXT) seach.

I do database backups these first couple of weeks moch more often than normally. This means 45 second pause in database (page load waits) once in about 2 hours.

Ads will be added back when DNS is fully propagated.

For those interested in technical details:
CPU: 2 x Intel Xeon-Woodcrest 5148-DualCore-LV [2.33GHz] (four cores in total)
RAM: 8GB
DISKS: 2 x 73GB 15k rpm SAS-SCSI, 1 x 250 GB SATA II
Server Software: Litespeed Enterprise 3.2 (using four cores)
PHP 5 (latest) + ACP + Memcache(d)
MySQL 5 (latest)
everything 64 -bit
Sphinx search engine
etc.

[deltroid]

Rock n' roll!! :)

[RCoulter]

Great job Pekka!

[SuzyView]

Wow, this place does rock! Thanks, Pekka. I was getting withdrawal symptoms this morning. I almost cried. ;)

[cylentka]

Thanks for the new server! :D

[jpvaz]

Just wanted to say thanks for all you're hard work with the forum.

Thanks a million Pekka!!! You rule!!! :)

[danpass]

Cool!


"Skynet is the virus!"


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[tommykjensen]

Thanks Pekka.

[Permagrin]

most definitely, thank you :)

[tomd]

thanks for the investment in the server!

[S.Horton]

...wicked fast now.

Thank you!

[mrclark321]

Will this be changing? http://75.126.234.18/forum/

[tommykjensen]

Boy it is turbo charged. It is along time since I got so fast load times as right now.

[Pekka]

Will this be changing? http://75.126.234.18/forum/

Yes, the address move is in progress. It will take anything from 1 hour to 48 hours - just try to open http://photography-on-the.net/forum and if you see the active forum (this one) you can stop using the IP.

Sometimes the DNS change is "flakey" for a while because routes change dynamically. This means in plain english that for few hours the real address works and sometimes not - it will stabilize shortly.

[jothefish]

We are moving faster than ever.... well done... now go get a nice glass of wine and relax :)

[Pekka]

That load delay just now was one backup I mentioned about earlier. It took about one minute.

[cylentka]

That load delay just now was one backup I mentioned about earlier. It took about one minute.

I felt that, wasn't bad at all. The only problem with this server is that now I can chatter faster and my post count will get embarrassingly high. Can you reset it to 0 after every 6000 posts?? :D

[jjackflash]

Yeah but when i search "pekka" i get this:
Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.
If the problem persists it could mean search engine is temporarily offline

Does this mean you are not real?

[cylentka]

Yeah but when i search "pekka" i get this:
Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.
If the problem persists it could mean search engine is temporarily offline

Does this mean you are not real?

I got tons of results. No, he's not real, he's Santa Claus!! See what he gifted us? :D

[subtle_spectre]

So I am ignorant about this...is this server in your home or office as opposed to some big host elsewhere? If it is, does it not require some super internet connection? I am just curious...thanks for the stellar work!

[Pekka]

Yeah but when i search "pekka" i get this:
Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.
If the problem persists it could mean search engine is temporarily offline

Does this mean you are not real?

What keyword(s) you used? With this search you should not use any "keyword" or (keyword) or +keyword stuff. Just put words in a row.

Note that

70-200 f/2.8L

is different search than

70-200 2.8L

It is very precise.

[cfpackerfan]

http://img99.exs.cx/img99/8577/yupi3ti.gif http://espacioforos.miarroba.com/21494/Caretos/clapping.gif

THANKS Pekka! Love the new digs. :D :D

[Pekka]

So I am ignorant about this...is this server in your home or office as opposed to some big host elsewhere? If it is, does it not require some super internet connection? I am just curious...thanks for the stellar work!

This machine is hosted in US by an excellent company called Softlayer. They rent servers for people like me. They have dozens of powerful pipes to all over the world. The server itself is at 100 mbit network connection to internet and I can upgrade it to gigabit connection later when needed.

[HarleyQuinn]

Thanks Pekka! Alot of hard work for us humble followers!

I didn't realize how addicted I was to this site til this morning.
I was forced to read my 30D manual!

[subtle_spectre]

This machine is hosted in US by an excellent company called Softlayer. They rent servers for people like me. They have dozens of powerful pipes to all over the world. The server itself is at 100 mbit network connection to internet and I can upgrade it to gigabit connection later when needed.


I see...thanks!

[timbernet]

YAY! Thank you Pekka!
Payday is next week and I will donate again!

This machine is hosted in US by an excellent company called Softlayer. They rent servers for people like me. They have dozens of powerful pipes to all over the world. The server itself is at 100 mbit network connection to internet and I can upgrade it to gigabit connection later when needed.

I just moved to Softlayer last week, WAY better than *cough*TP/EV1*cough*

[jjackflash]

I was trying to give you a little laugh! thanks for your work.

[Pekka]

I was trying to give you a little laugh! thanks for your work.

Sorry I totally missed it :) Have to get some coffee :)

[cylentka]

Sorry I totally missed it :) Have to get some coffee :)

I missed it too, lol. I thought he was serious and even did my own search. Pass the coffee pot, please.... :D

[Pekka]

You can use this nice page http://www.preshweb.co.uk/cgi-bin/dns-propagation-tracker.pl?domain=photography-on-the.net&type=A for checking how DNS updates around the world.

[Pete W]

Well got to say page load is quicker.... Nice one Pekka :)

[b00ty]

page loads are great here too! cool system. should hold us for awhile :-)

[CyberDyneSystems]

Cool!


"Skynet is the virus!"


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Yes. :lol:

[CyberDyneSystems]

Wow, it really is peppy! :) :)

[Mgdh]

Thanks, Pekka, for all the work and investment you have put into this, both the new server but more especially this whole community as a whole!!!

It's AWESOME.

[John_B]

Pekka,
Site works great :)
Too bad DNS isn't as quick as this forum :lol:

[Becca]

Thanks Pekka! We really appreciate all your hard work to keep us off the streets! :)

[weka2000]

Us kiwis will love you now. At 9.30 each night we ground to a halt. Heck we had to talk to our wives :lol:

Thank for all your hard work and investment Pekka

[::John::]

Threads: 345,755, Posts: 3,583,359, Members: 111,483

Bringing across that amount of data and upgrading the board is one hell of a feat. Well done, Pekka. You know it is appreciated. You just probably don't know how much.

Thank you.


and, I agree with Weka - sorta. It was 7:30pm here and the dog got some exercise at that point. Now I should buy a treadmill for 'walkies'. :)

[Picture North Carolina]

Ready to rock, Pekka!

What's wierd is the dns. Sometimes the DN resolves, sometimes it doesn't. I'm going to the same static dns server. Who knows, maybe as all zones flatulate over the next 48 hours things will stabilize.

[weka2000]

Well just playing around with search speed. Impresive.
Decided I wanted to do a Members count list based on posts.

Posts #people

20K + = 4
10K-20K = 18
5k-10K = 78
1K-5K = 527

500-999 = 638
1-499 = 45084

Seem to have lost some people somewhere "Members: 111,483 "

[crn3371]

Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication to this wonderful place. Holy smokes! It is fast.

[3Turner]

Now we're smokin'! Thanks Pekka for this wonderful board..

Seem to have lost some people somewhere "Members: 111,483 Did you include 0 post people? Those that just signed up and never posted...if there are any.

[Pekka]

Ready to rock, Pekka!

What's wierd is the dns. Sometimes the DN resolves, sometimes it doesn't. I'm going to the same static dns server. Who knows, maybe as all zones flatulate over the next 48 hours things will stabilize.

Exactly. The route changes for each request.

[Pekka]

Well just playing around with search speed. Impresive.
Decided I wanted to do a Members count list based on posts.

Posts #people

20K + = 4
10K-20K = 18
5k-10K = 78
1K-5K = 527

500-999 = 638
1-499 = 45084

Seem to have lost some people somewhere "Members: 111,483 "

I've excluded all zero posters from member list, even if there are many who have been with us a long time without never posting any messages.

[Jon]

Us kiwis will love you now. At 9.30 each night we ground to a halt. Heck we had to talk to our wives :lol:

Thank for all your hard work and investment PekkaSo are you saying that a bunch of angry NZ women will now be storming the battlements, or that they'll be making etra contributions to keep you on-line?
:{)#

[weka2000]

So are you saying that a bunch of angry NZ women will now be storming the battlements, or that they'll be making etra contributions to keep you on-line?
:{)#

"Hey what is so important on that chat room"

but honey I have learnt so much about photography

"Learnt......the only thing you have learnt is how to spend my hard earned money"

Darling look at those kids photos....they look so cute. Priceless

"ummmmm. Now how much is that new lens you after going to cost me"

Well sweetheart I havnt worked out which is the better 1. The 500mm or 600mm F4 :lol:

[kona77]

Thank you Pekka for such a great place. In the near future I will definitely send some money along.
In the mean time you must have a huge amount of storage for all of the pictures that are uploaded. Do you ever purge them or should we do that on our own?
Thanks again.
Tim

[Pekka]

Thank you Pekka for such a great place. In the near future I will definitely send some money along.
In the mean time you must have a huge amount of storage for all of the pictures that are uploaded. Do you ever purge them or should we do that on our own?
Thanks again.
Tim

No need to purge unless you want to. Having your own outsourced gallery is encouraged, though - it is good for us and better for you as you can have bigger files and control their use totally.

Eventually we might put some restrictions to amount of files but at the moment it's going ok.

Problem with attachments is not disk space or amount of files, but that Vbulletin does not allow placing them on another physical server with other than internal networking. If I could do that (without hacks) I could distribute bandwidth between this and image server and not worry about POTN getting near my bandwidth limit in year or two (and going over is very expensive).

[Anke]

Nice one Pekka, thanks for the investment!! :D

[SuzyView]

I admit I haven't donated like I planned, but sent a few dollars to the forum. It's the cheapest habit I have. :) Thanks for putting up with us and doing it with style. I always feel like Pekka is the grand wizard. We're just hobbits.

[Anke]

Can someone tell me how to donate some dollars

[Skip Souza]

Donate here: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/donate.php

[Anke]

Donate here: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/donate.php

Thanks :)

[JohnnyG]

I absolutely love this new server! Really fast! And Pekka is the greatest for sure!

I got very bored today without POTN. I didn't know what to do.

I can't seem to get to the Rumors thread. What's with that?

[Anke]

I can't seem to get to the Rumors thread. What's with that?

http://75.126.234.18/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=82