Building a rack-mountable 1U chassis web server

[Apoptosis]

glad to see a 37% improvement on ping times and fewer hops for you... The reason for the server move was to improve the speed of the server for all and handle the growth that Legit Reviews has had in 2006. The site has doubled in unique visitors and page views, so it's really needed.

[Apoptosis]

Just wanted to update this thread and say that the server has had zero problems and 100% uptime since it was installed back in 2006. The Tyan server chassis has been perfect, the Corsair ECC memory has done great, the AMD Opteron 2XX series processors are running 64-bit linux like a champ and the Western Digital Raptor Hard Drives are still spinning at 10,000 RPM's. The site traffic has nearly doubled since these servers were put in place and they are holding solid with nearly a million visitors a month on both the site and the forums. We've had to change to a better switch after the site was put in place as the sustained throughput wasn't enough for plan we were on. After a new cable was dropped on the gig switch the bottleneck ended. Plans are in the works for a new server later this year and we are aiming for dual quad core Xeon processors with roughly 16GB of memory and some newer hard drives to improve the disk performance. The current server looks like it will be retired to a backup/development server or maybe we will split the forums from the site server to reduce the load.

[martini161]

so what kind of connection are you guys on now? DS3C? and are you gonna get 15000rpm SCSI drives?

[Apoptosis]

so what kind of connection are you guys on now? DS3C? and are you gonna get 15000rpm SCSI drives?

Our host has rich fiber connections to all major carriers (AT&T, MCI/Verizon (UUNET), Sprint, Qwest, and Level 3) and scalable bandwidth capacity from OC3 to OC192. (OC-192 is a network line with transmission speeds of up to 9953.28 Mbit/s)

[martini161]

and i thought my 30mbs connection was good

[stopthekilling77]

wow those are impressive plans for the upcoming update o.o

100% uptime is almost unbelievable! congrats on that! think of all the headaches you haven't had :D

[martini161]

probably saved you a couple hundreds dollars worth of tylenol

[martini161]

so, is more of that 4 u filled now? or is it still 3/4 empty?