PC Server Move | Upgrade Announcement

[Rukario]

Just so you all know, you MAY still see a CloudFlare page but likely not due to PC being overloaded but more along the lines of security risk and your ISP's IPs being in blocks with known exploiters/hackers (a security thing that CF also does for us) and may have to enter a captcha still if this is the case.

We do believe tht this new server will be able to handle all PC can throw at it but just remember, in the beginning we'll be fine-tuning it as well as optimizing the systems and you may see lag or non-responsive pages for a bit. well at least until we get the server dialed in :p

 

[blue]

Ooh exciting news! Really looking forward to seeing the updates and so forth.

 

[Hidden307]

Happy to hear that PC is moving to a new server. Looking forward to it. :)

 

[acatfrommars]

Thanks for the heads up! Can't wait to see the new server. :]

 

[Exeviant]

Thnx for the heads up :D, Hope this will fix all the problems.

 

[Starry Windy]

Just so you all know, you MAY still see a CloudFlare page but likely not due to PC being overloaded but more along the lines of security risk and your ISP's IPs being in blocks with known exploiters/hackers (a security thing that CF also does for us) and may have to enter a captcha still if this is the case.

Oh... it's ok, I don't mind treated with captchas if it is ever prompted again. Thanks for the explanations Rukario.

 

[pokemonranger109]

So, wait, could the server we are on now be laggy due to a lot of data being on PC?

 

[ConnorLuke]

Sounds amazing, Faster and more efficient

 

[AngelicSpirit]

Oh good lord, All I hope is that I can come back from the dead before this happens. O.O

This server upgrade will be the longest 3 days of my life.

i remember another forum i use upgraded its forum software and everything took like a week because the owner got a JavaScript error of some sort.

Hopefully that won't happen to PC or I will cry my eyes out. ;~;

 

[Kiriyuuki Kasuna]

I'm very happy to hear that PC is getting a brand new server. That means that Donating to PC has definitely paid off and helped. That being said, we still shouldn't be not donating whatever spare money we have at our hands--PC will keep getting better and better in time that is a guaranteed fact.


A thanks to all Supporters who've donated to PC up until now~
To all users: Start donating whenever you can possibly can! :)



Also....


CHYEAH SAYONARA CLOUDFLARE, HOPE TO NEVER EVER SEE YOU AGAIN!!! :D <3

 

[Ooka]

Nice job. :)

Now just get rid of the themes with tons of/gigantic images and your server will like you even more. :3

 

[Legendary Silke]

I look forward to a snappy server serving pages snappily without much fuss, unlike what I've seen in the past. I hope things do go smoothly for you guys to the point that new features are made available simply because the load is low enough to not have the servers keel over.

Nice job. :)

Now just get rid of the themes with tons of/gigantic images and your server will like you even more. :3

Wouldn't that be called "feature loss"? If things go right, there would be less pressing need to remove these styles.

Besides, I'm pretty sure "very fancy forum styling that somewhat stresses the browser engines and GPUs" is probably PokéCommunity's trademark at this point. :P

 

[quilzel]

I must know, as a geek and fellow sysadmin, what are the specs of the new box?

 

[Rukario]

I must know, as a geek and fellow sysadmin, what are the specs of the new box?

here are some basic details of the server..

Motherboard SuperMicro X8DTU-F Intel Xeon DualProc SAS/SATA [2Proc]
Processor Intel Xeon-Nehalem 5520-Quadcore [2.2GHz] w/ HT
Processor Intel Xeon-Nehalem 5520-Quadcore [2.2GHz] w/ HT
RAM slot 1 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 2 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 3 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 4 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 5 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 6 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 7 Empty
RAM slot 8 Empty
RAM slot 9 Empty
RAM slot 10 Empty
RAM slot 11 Empty
RAM slot 12 Empty

Drive Controller Mainboard \ Onboard \ SATAII Controller
Hard Drive 1 wcasy8304795 Western Digital WD Caviar RE3 WD5002ABYS [500GB]
Hard Drive 2 wcasy7836672 Western Digital WD Caviar RE3 WD5002ABYS [500GB]
Hard Drive 3 Empty
Hard Drive 4 Empty

Remote Mgmt Card SuperMicro Winbond WPCM450 - Onboard IPMI-KVM
Power Supply SuperMicro PWS-561-1H20 (20) R6.1 560W
Backplane SuperMicro BPN-SAS-815TQ 4 Port Passive

 

[Livewire]

English translation: it's going to be a much more efficient server, technologically speaking.

 

[catroZ]

here are some basic details of the server..

Motherboard SuperMicro X8DTU-F Intel Xeon DualProc SAS/SATA [2Proc]
Processor Intel Xeon-Nehalem 5520-Quadcore [2.2GHz] w/ HT
Processor Intel Xeon-Nehalem 5520-Quadcore [2.2GHz] w/ HT
RAM slot 1 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 2 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 3 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 4 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 5 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 6 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 7 Empty
RAM slot 8 Empty
RAM slot 9 Empty
RAM slot 10 Empty
RAM slot 11 Empty
RAM slot 12 Empty

Drive Controller Mainboard \ Onboard \ SATAII Controller
Hard Drive 1 wcasy8304795 Western Digital WD Caviar RE3 WD5002ABYS [500GB]
Hard Drive 2 wcasy7836672 Western Digital WD Caviar RE3 WD5002ABYS [500GB]
Hard Drive 3 Empty
Hard Drive 4 Empty

Remote Mgmt Card SuperMicro Winbond WPCM450 - Onboard IPMI-KVM
Power Supply SuperMicro PWS-561-1H20 (20) R6.1 560W
Backplane SuperMicro BPN-SAS-815TQ 4 Port Passive

So,that's 24GB RAM, 2xNehalem Xeons(17,6Ghz toghether[4 cores at 2.2GHz=8.8GHz]+[4 cores at 2.2GHz=8.8GHz]),1TB HDD(poor choice- I would go for 4 SSD's at 256GB instead+are the HHDs RAIDed or are they acting as separate HDDs?).That looks preety good for me.

 

[quilzel]

here are some basic details of the server..

Motherboard SuperMicro X8DTU-F Intel Xeon DualProc SAS/SATA [2Proc]
Processor Intel Xeon-Nehalem 5520-Quadcore [2.2GHz] w/ HT
Processor Intel Xeon-Nehalem 5520-Quadcore [2.2GHz] w/ HT
RAM slot 1 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 2 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 3 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 4 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 5 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 6 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 7 Empty
RAM slot 8 Empty
RAM slot 9 Empty
RAM slot 10 Empty
RAM slot 11 Empty
RAM slot 12 Empty

Drive Controller Mainboard \ Onboard \ SATAII Controller
Hard Drive 1 wcasy8304795 Western Digital WD Caviar RE3 WD5002ABYS [500GB]
Hard Drive 2 wcasy7836672 Western Digital WD Caviar RE3 WD5002ABYS [500GB]
Hard Drive 3 Empty
Hard Drive 4 Empty

Remote Mgmt Card SuperMicro Winbond WPCM450 - Onboard IPMI-KVM
Power Supply SuperMicro PWS-561-1H20 (20) R6.1 560W
Backplane SuperMicro BPN-SAS-815TQ 4 Port Passive

You have a SAS backplane, but you didn't list any SAS drives. Are you going to be moving the database to the SATA drives?

So,that's 24GB RAM, 2xNehalem Xeons(17,6Ghz toghether[4 cores at 2.2GHz=8.8GHz]+[4 cores at 2.2GHz=8.8GHz]),1TB HDD(poor choice- I would go for 4 SSD's at 256GB instead+are the HHDs RAIDed or are they acting as separate HDDs?).That looks preety good for me.

Those drives are most likely going to be set up in a RAID1 to allow for one of the drives to fail. What I have set up for my VM Host is similar, but I have 11 76GB 15k RPM SAS drives set up in a RAID6 for VM Storage.

 

[Treecko]

I have no clue how to read server lingo, but I'm trusting Livewire that this new server will make PC run much faster and smoother. Good luck with moving guys!

 

[catroZ]

I have no clue how to read server lingo, but I'm trusting Livewire that this new server will make PC run much faster and smoother. Good luck with moving guys!

Basically, it's what Livewire said:it's going to be a good, efficent server.

 

[Legobricks]

here are some basic details of the server..

Motherboard SuperMicro X8DTU-F Intel Xeon DualProc SAS/SATA [2Proc]
Processor Intel Xeon-Nehalem 5520-Quadcore [2.2GHz] w/ HT
Processor Intel Xeon-Nehalem 5520-Quadcore [2.2GHz] w/ HT
RAM slot 1 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 2 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 3 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 4 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 5 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 6 Kingston 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 4GB DDR3 2Rx8 [4GB]
RAM slot 7 Empty
RAM slot 8 Empty
RAM slot 9 Empty
RAM slot 10 Empty
RAM slot 11 Empty
RAM slot 12 Empty

Drive Controller Mainboard \ Onboard \ SATAII Controller
Hard Drive 1 wcasy8304795 Western Digital WD Caviar RE3 WD5002ABYS [500GB]
Hard Drive 2 wcasy7836672 Western Digital WD Caviar RE3 WD5002ABYS [500GB]
Hard Drive 3 Empty
Hard Drive 4 Empty

Remote Mgmt Card SuperMicro Winbond WPCM450 - Onboard IPMI-KVM
Power Supply SuperMicro PWS-561-1H20 (20) R6.1 560W
Backplane SuperMicro BPN-SAS-815TQ 4 Port Passive

What were the specs of the previous server?