The never ending upgrade

Post by **bio** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 10:38 am

A friend of mine called a couple days ago.

He wanted to know if I'd upgraded the server yet (sadly, the answer is no). I have a nifty little pIII 500 with 36GB of storage space sitting there, ready to go (as apposed to the current p200 with 5BG of space).

He then made the an offer... a dual pIII 700 with 60GB of space on a hot swappable RAID-5... for free (well... free is a subjective term, I have to give him webspace until I die). The only downside is... the machine is big (OMG! OMG! XBOX BIG!! LOL!). It's an actual server, so I get redundant NIC's, power supplies, etc., but there may be a problem finding someplace to put it.

Anyway... I'm gonna go look at it. If I pick it up, mySQL will blaze (making things like the forum run faster) and it will have more than enough power to implement and run all the anti-spam stuff I want to implement (blacklists, domain blocking, etc).

Should be groovy if I can use it.

mmeowgrl · Post by **mmeowgrl** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 10:42 am

sweeeet...

Moxie · Post by **Moxie** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 2:31 pm

I don't know what most of that means, but Yayyyyy!

Post by **bio** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 3:00 pm

It means everything will run faster, you'll have more space to put pictures and stuff on your website, and you won't get as much junkmail.

AsaJay · Post by **AsaJay** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 3:30 pm

Let's see now. . . this wouldn't have anything to do with a 3-way split of some > $800,000.00 would it?

What with advertising banners and pop-ups from pRon sites, at oh let's say $30K each, times how many sites. . . hmmmm, nah, that would be a logrithmic function.

On the other hand, are you sure you didn't underestimate the income?

<pull my finger>

Moxie · Post by **Moxie** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 3:40 pm

bio wrote:It means everything will run faster, you'll have more space to put pictures and stuff on your website, and you won't get as much junkmail.

*bats eyelashes* Bio's a good web-daddy

Nickp · Post by **Nickp** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 4:04 pm

Oh man, my 900 mhz P3 could tear it up YO!

let's race. I have a window on it, which adds at least 500 mhz, and a purple light, which is another 250 mhz, and I own at teh CS, which makes the RAM double.
-Nick P.

Ok, really, I own a mac.

Moxie · Post by **Moxie** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 4:08 pm

I've been wanting a mac for a while now. The curves are seductive. Not to mention the lack of blue-screen-o-death...

Post by **bio** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 4:08 pm

Heh... ok, we'll race.

BTW - I run linux with no GUI (pure command line goodness). I'm pretty sure that adds 6GHz.

Nickp · Post by **Nickp** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 4:23 pm

Funny you say that Moxie, my background is the blue screen, to remind me.

I have the cute little white iBook. They're quite affordable. Just don't go into the Mac Store, they suck.
-Nick P.

Moxie · Post by **Moxie** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 4:26 pm

Weeeeeeeee!

Post by **bio** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 4:50 pm

I live in both worlds.

I'm a big PC user, but love MacOS.

There... I said it, and I feel better!