Welcome to CF's brand new servers! 
A Quad Opteron running our database with 8 x 15k rpm SCSI drives in a RAID 10 PCI-X array... coupled with Dual Processor/Dual Core Opteron and Dual Xeon webservers, in a private gigabit network...
This migration to the new servers have been extremely stressful and problematic.
I've been in front of the computer for over 32 hours straight - I missed church, missed work today (I did feel unwell in any case), to do the migration. I've only had 3 hours sleep. What made things worse is that I had actually had the database server set up perfectly about 5 hours ago and we were ready to launch but the host wanted to change power supplies to the database server - when they did that, they did something bad to the RAID-10 array and they WIPED OUT THE WHOLE DATABASE. This led to some panic, the need to access the old servers to get a copy of the database, and then a fight to fix corruption of the post table due to mysql replication problems.
In any case, it's all fixed, and here we are.
Enjoy the speed. Me, I'm going to go to bed, so that I can return to work tomorrow. I've got meetings galore at work and after work...
God bless and thanks for the prayers - we needed it!
UPDATE: Our main webserver is choking a bit so we may have to add another one... we shall see... we are already running FreeBSD and lighttpd to reduce loads... pages are still loading very fast - it's just that loads are a bit high... Let's see how we go at peak times...
A Quad Opteron running our database with 8 x 15k rpm SCSI drives in a RAID 10 PCI-X array... coupled with Dual Processor/Dual Core Opteron and Dual Xeon webservers, in a private gigabit network...
This migration to the new servers have been extremely stressful and problematic.
I've been in front of the computer for over 32 hours straight - I missed church, missed work today (I did feel unwell in any case), to do the migration. I've only had 3 hours sleep. What made things worse is that I had actually had the database server set up perfectly about 5 hours ago and we were ready to launch but the host wanted to change power supplies to the database server - when they did that, they did something bad to the RAID-10 array and they WIPED OUT THE WHOLE DATABASE. This led to some panic, the need to access the old servers to get a copy of the database, and then a fight to fix corruption of the post table due to mysql replication problems.
In any case, it's all fixed, and here we are.
Enjoy the speed. Me, I'm going to go to bed, so that I can return to work tomorrow. I've got meetings galore at work and after work...
God bless and thanks for the prayers - we needed it!
UPDATE: Our main webserver is choking a bit so we may have to add another one... we shall see... we are already running FreeBSD and lighttpd to reduce loads... pages are still loading very fast - it's just that loads are a bit high... Let's see how we go at peak times...
erwin, thank you
