ATTENTION: CF will be upgrading hardware and changing datacenters...

[Savedsis]

Thanks MO for the heads up...

 

[MeekOne]

You are most welcome, Sis! Its really Defender77 we should thank, he did all the work. I just picked colors and stuff! He is truly awesome! Love the purple and blue here:

http://www.getphpbb.com/phpbb/index.php?mforum=cfmirror

Please start posting threads for yourselves!

 

[day2day]

You are most welcome, Sis! Its really Defender77 we should thank, he did all the work. I just picked colors and stuff! He is truly awesome! Love the purple and blue here:

http://www.getphpbb.com/phpbb/index.php?mforum=cfmirror

Please start posting threads for yourselves!

Thank you, Meek I love the color

 

[~Lady Trekki~]

You rock Erwin! I'll be happy to sacrafice a few hours or days for more speed here on CF.

I'll continue to donate to you as well. I cannot imagine not having this place to come to anymore. It's my home away from home!

God bless you Erwin!

 

[Swart]

This site will always remain a free site.

I'm still negotiating the hardware - we are definitely going to Dual Processor Dual Core Opterons, the question is what else. Raptor drives with RAID 0 too.

I've installed a couple of EMC SANs relatively recently. They are fantastic, however they are also horrifically expensive: the ultimate in high availability storage. With a couple of servers in a cluster, fibre channel to SATA RAID10, you could perform system maintenance with zero downtime.

Add to that a reverse proxy such as iChain and this site would be screaming! I installed iChain at a site a few months ago and it reduced server load by 90% and doubled throughput. Reverse proxy's are the way to go - they also add an extra layer of security. The one I installed allows three levels of secure access, one of which involves the use of token-based authentication, so you don't need to hand out insecure passwords to high-level administrators.

I'm pretty sure the site I setup is close to unhackable. At least, half the time I can't get in myself!

 

[Swart]

One possible scenario to dramatically increase throughput and minimise downtime without adding faster servers:

 

[MeekOne]

At times when our beloved CF forum is down for repair/upgrades, etc., you can find the CF Mirror site here in web links too:

http://www.christianforums.com/f32-favorite-web-links.html

Just in case anyone has missed the link above.

 

[PorcelainHeart]

thanks, meekone

 

[bill'swife]

Does anyone know exactly when CF will be down?

 

[MeekOne]

Does anyone know exactly when CF will be down?

I have no idea, but I'm sure Erwin could help with that question.

Hello Kaiya! Glad you all have joined us for when it does go down.

 

[Erwin]

I will make an announcement when the time comes. I am still negotiating the hardware specs.

 

[CaDan]

I will make an announcement when the time comes. I am still negotiating the hardware specs.

Don't forget the Mac Plus!

 

[PaladinValer]

Macs?

Macs are evil, Prescious! So so cruel to poor, poor Smeagol!

 

[Mayflower1]

Big Macs have lots and lots of calories so I would hate to see a Mac plus!!!

 

[MeekOne]

Big Macs have lots and lots of calories so I would hate to see a Mac plus!!!

HAHAHA! That was a good one, Lily!

 

[WalksWithChrist]

Big Macs have lots and lots of calories so I would hate to see a Mac plus!!!

I have a Classic Mac that still runs. Does that mean it's really stale?? Erwin, you can add it to your cluster if you want...

 

[MeekOne]

I have a Classic Mac that still runs. Does that mean it's really stale?? Erwin, you can add it to your cluster if you want...

Hello WWC!!! So good to see you on the threads, my friend!

 

[Mayflower1]

Stale? Have it your way!!!

 

[WalksWithChrist]

Hello WWC!!! So good to see you on the threads, my friend!

 

[Erwin]

Confirmed our new server specs - very nice - database server will have Quad Opterons, 8 x SCSI hard drives with RAID PCI-X etc.

I'm also going to switch from using Linux to FreeBSD and Apache to lighttpd. Wish me luck! I have to learn a new OS!