Topic: Is it me or this forum fast as hell? (Read 738 times)
These forums are indeed really speedy and solid. Great work with the server, admins.
Even though it's a bad comparison due to the immense size difference, it's funny that the forum is usually faster and less error-prone than Reddit, a site with corporate support and professional programmers.
There was a period where Reddit had explosive growth while losing two competent sysadmins (link to the post of one of them complaining about Amazon) at the worst time in regards to their growth (not to mention this happened at same time as the whole debacle with Amazon's EBS system). That incident is used a lot to point out their problems. You're right though, even with competent sysadmins, they still have issues quite often. I often wonder if everything bad with reddit is often Amazon-related.
On a side note, I thought the recent AMA of a former Amazon worker was interesting. (this is just the highlights)
The forum gets about 152 requests per second. I'm pretty happy with the performance. Even though it's a bad comparison due to the immense size difference, it's funny that the forum is usually faster and less error-prone than Reddit, a site with corporate support and professional programmers.
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Yeah, the website must be hosted at Google, it opens waay fast than any local website.
Hey that's nice to see the specs this is hosted on - good to know 
Awesome, thanks!
I should look into getting ssd's in my server as well.
I should look into getting ssd's in my server as well.
Yep, this new server is awesomely fast 
I guess some of the BTC6000 we donated to the forum may have been put to work!
Cool. Is it hosted in the Netherlands?
Yes.
And when you say provided by, are they paying for the server or are we using forum funds to pay them for the server?
They're paying for it in exchange for some advertising.
Yep, this new server is awesomely fast
Would you mind sharing some basic specs of the server?
Before:
- Core 2 Duo T7700 @ 2.4GHz
- 4 GB memory
- Slow hard drive
After:
- Xeon E31240 @ 3.30GHz
- 16 GB memory
- 2 SSDs in RAID 1
I think this'll be enough for a while.
- Core 2 Duo T7700 @ 2.4GHz
- 4 GB memory
- Slow hard drive
After:
- Xeon E31240 @ 3.30GHz
- 16 GB memory
- 2 SSDs in RAID 1
I think this'll be enough for a while.
Yep, this new server is awesomely fast
Would you mind sharing some basic specs of the server?
Yep, this new server is awesomely fast
I guess some of the BTC6000 we donated to the forum may have been put to work!
Yep, this new server is awesomely fast
Yes, it's blazin' like fire at the moment. It was a tad slower during the recent DDoS attacks.
Yeah, i can see that happening
Yes, it's blazin' like fire at the moment. It was a tad slower during the recent DDoS attacks.
Compared to 9 out of 10 forums. I'm really impressed with the speed. Especially if you consider the amount of users here.
I wonder what their hardware and software setup looks like.
I wonder what their hardware and software setup looks like.
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