Website sluggishness and server move
Having some issues with apache using up all the available memory on the webserver recently. I'm not entirely sure why to be honest though I haven't had enough spare time to really investigate.
Ironbits has done a fantastic job of hosting the servers for the last few years but that time is about to come to an end. I've slowly over the last few months sorted out the ability to host the servers myself. IB has donated a core i7 920 w/12Gb Ram and 2x128Gb SSD's as well as primary storage. This has been up and running for the last month at home here running the stats parallel. Website is on the same box right now, but I just need to build a webserver separate.
I'd prefer a second core i7 in order to have more memory but that might have to come later. For now I have a quad I'm not using and just need some memory which I'll be getting this week some time (4Gb) and so the plan is to migrate and switch to this one week of September 20th. It should be pretty seamless I think.
The database server is quite a lot faster so things like combined BOINC totals will be in updated all of the time now.
Not sure of the bandwidth as I only have 512k Up, it should easily handle it I think. 15Mb down but if it comes to it I will upgrade the connection to a business line. Space wise there is no issues at all.
Bok