Building a rack-mountable 1U chassis web server

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:06 pm

PFFFFFTTT....why linux when WINDOWS IS SO MUCH MORE STABLE!!!!

Post by **Apoptosis** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:16 pm

Total Server Cost -
TYAN Transport GT24 B2891G24S4H 1U Barebone Server - $869.99
2 - AMD Dual-Core Opteron 270 Italy Processors - $515.98
4 - CORSAIR 1GB (PC 3200) ECC Registered Server System Memory - $579.96
2 - Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM Hard Drives - $449.98

Total Sever Cost from Newegg: $2,415.91... which isn't bad, but that doesn't count colocation costs, setup fees, software, and software installation

Post by **Apoptosis** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:18 pm

Dragon_Cooler wrote:PFFFFFTTT....why linux when WINDOWS IS SO MUCH MORE STABLE!!!!

Well for starters Linux is free... Secondly the threat for viruses and security breaches are much lower when linux is setup correctly.

Post by **FZ1** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:42 pm

I think you missed the sarcasm there Nate

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:38 pm

FZ1 wrote:I think you missed the sarcasm there Nate

I will scratch the sarcasm for the cost of the server...I'm sorry Nate!

HONkUS · Post by **HONkUS** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:56 pm

I prefer Windows 3.1 over Linux and XP

also I just noticed that XP looks like an emote of someone biting their tounge really hard

Post by **Apoptosis** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:02 pm

FZ1 wrote:I think you missed the sarcasm there Nate

sorry lack of sleep and still fighting this head cold I've had for over a week...

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:30 pm

Apoptosis wrote:
FZ1 wrote:I think you missed the sarcasm there Nate
sorry lack of sleep and still fighting this head cold I've had for over a week...

im sorry to play tricks on you!!

Cypher · Post by **Cypher** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 11:13 pm

Looking good.

I'm also a whiz when it comes to Linux (Linux Administrator for 4 years). Also, you could also probably get a forum performance increase by upgrading to vBulletin as well. You would probably have to recode the news for the front page if it's reading from the forums for it's information.

Dragon_Cooler wrote:PFFFFFTTT....why linux when WINDOWS IS SO MUCH MORE STABLE!!!!

When it comes to actual performance for a webserver, I have to say Linux performs much better than your average Windows server will. Once the box is actually secured, it's pretty secure.

You still have updates to worry about, but nothing on the scale like the Windows Updates, plus you don't have to worry about all the stupid automatic reboots, unless you recompile the kernel, which I always do from the very beginning anyways.

chi · Post by **chi** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 3:11 am

Awsome system

i was always curious does the tyan boards have option for cpu overclock?

Post by **dicecca112** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:36 am

doubt it seeing we want 100% stable over speed.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:10 am

It has an option for adjusting the HT, but nothing else other than the memory timings. The server is been burnt in for 72 hours and everything is installed on it, so next week LR will officially have a new home.

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:04 pm

Yey!

Dan

Post by **Apoptosis** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:23 pm

The web server has been moved to CyberCon!

In the middle of mounting the rails and taking a picture break:

The server installed and running in it's slot with LR's other open 3U of rackspace.

Once the new server is 100% up and running I'll flip the switch, but a lot still needs to be done!

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 10:23 pm

OMG UBAR SEXY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sovereign · Post by **Sovereign** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:39 am

That's a lot of computers...

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:09 am

Cybercon is huge... They host 82,994 web servers according to security space. They just sold 6,000 square feet of rack space to a company that is going to use it all... It's insane how many PC's are in this single building.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:05 am

I've been playing around on the new server a bit today in my little free time and I'm pleased with the ping results and the server load times... This sucker is much faster than the current server and the forums and images fly on my connection. As you can see from the image above the ping time and route is improved for me and the same will hold true to all those in America and Europe as the server has moved from LA to STL and is on a better network. I'm very pleased so far and once all the server is ready for all to see I look forward to seeing your ping times and if the load times have improved for all our visitors. Digital Puppy lives in LA and the server in St. Louis pings lower than the one a few miles away in LA! Impressive

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:52 am

Look @ the first Pic. To the right of LR's server..........Someone likes Dell!

Apop, you are ~17 hops from the LA server and 11 hops from the new one in STL??? I would have thought that since you only live some miles from the new server there would only be ~5 hops.
You (personal) ISP's route the interweb is weird..........not that it's a problem since the access times are so low.
PM me the new IP address if you don't mind, I wanna see what ping times I get compared to the current server....

You don't want to install CS on it b4 the weekend? LOL

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:49 pm

Here's my Tracert results from me to the current server. I've left out IP address's etc.

Hop
1 15 ms 13 ms 13 ms <-- My PC
2 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms
3 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms
4 12 ms 13 ms 13 ms
5 14 ms 15 ms 14 ms
6 28 ms 26 ms 26 ms <-- London
7 172 ms 159 ms 161 ms <- LA
8 162 ms 162 ms 160 ms
9 161 ms 160 ms 160 ms
10 162 ms 163 ms 163 ms
11 162 ms 161 ms 163 ms
12 162 ms 165 ms 163 ms
13 166 ms 165 ms 162 ms
14 161 ms 161 ms 162 ms <-- Current server

14 hops from me to the current server. ~161ms avg
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Now the Results from me to the new server!

Hops
1 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms <- My PC
2 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms
3 13 ms 14 ms 13 ms
4 13 ms 14 ms 15 ms <-- Last hop from my ISP
5 14 ms 14 ms 13 ms <-- the company I work for ;)
6 29 ms 26 ms 28 ms <-- Level3 in London
7 111 ms 111 ms 112 ms <-- Level3 in Chicago
8 118 ms 117 ms 119 ms <-- Level 3 in St Louis
9 116 ms 118 ms 118 ms
10 118 ms 117 ms 120 ms
11 117 ms 117 ms 118 ms <- New server

11 hops to new server. the first 4 are inside my ISP ~117ms avg ping times

Old = 161ms
New= 117ms
~44ms quicker and 3 less hops

Strangely I follow the same route to each server for the first 6 hops. The ping times are the same for me up till London. After that I take a different route, either LA or STL and the LA route gets alot slower. I get killed in Chicago (~111ms) & LA (~161ms)
Remember this is ping times from Ireland to STL & LA! (LR is an International site after all)