posted by max on July 01, 2006 at 06:07:01 AM

After 8 grueling hours of work, the site hardware has been upgraded yet again.

I launched the new master database server last night which has an extraordinary amount of power and should take us well into the future and allow for some awesome new features.

I also tweaked the content server a lot and last night we peaked out at 736mbps.
Read more for technical details.

The new master database server has the following specs:
Dual AMD Opteron 280 (dual core 2.4ghz w/2mb cache)
8GB ECC DDR Ram
2x36GB 15k RPM Ultra 320 SCSI disks in a RAID 1 setup

This server will take over as the master and all replication slaves will now connect to this.

The old DB server:
Dual AMD Opteron 246 (2 Ghz)
4GB ECC DDR Ram
2x74gb 10k RPM drives (with no RAID!)

This server now is the primary replication slave and the server which runs the site list and search.

Now that we have an excess of database power I'm looking for some suggestions as to what data we can pull from the database to provide some new and interesting content. If you have some good ideas of how to pull good sites out of a massive pile of all the data we collect, hit me up with a private message.

Additionally, the designer who made the "star" logo is working on a new layout for the site, I should get some screenshots in the middle of July. Good things are on the horizon.

Cheers!