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Buffistas Building a Better Board
Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Astarte - Oct 27, 2003 11:21:16 am PST #5826 of 10000
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Rob - Oct 27, 2003 11:31:32 am PST #5827 of 10000
Here's my take on the situation.
We're on a shared server. On a shared server, no one client should consume more than their fare share of resources, such as disk space, memory, CPU time and bandwidth. If one client uses too much of any of these resources, it hurts the others.
MySQL connections use a lot of resources. If a client were allowed to use as many connections as they liked they would consume too many resources. Putting in a limit to the number of connections has the side effect of limiting resource use.
The problem we'd have going forward is that Phoenix might end up using more than $20/month of server resources while staying under our MySQL limit. If that's so, Steve (as rep of IH) will have an incentive to figure out another way to limit our usage to more closely match the amount we're paying.
A dedicated server solves this problem, since we're limited by the speed of the CPU and the amount of memory in the box. If we exceed those limits a little, the board just slows down. If we exceed them a lot, maybe the server crashes. Either way, only Buffistas is harmed. Our hosting service isn't going to kick us off, they don't care how often a dedicated server crashes.
Astarte - Oct 27, 2003 11:52:29 am PST #5828 of 10000
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Dedicated server such as the $99 monthly deal on Istrata, am I correct?
Kristen - Oct 27, 2003 12:49:32 pm PST #5829 of 10000
Rob, since istrata seems to have taken down its site, and I can't find dedicated servers on the Netgate page, do you know if you can add additional RAM?
ETA: Nevermind on the first question.
Rob - Oct 27, 2003 1:01:02 pm PST #5830 of 10000
It looks like it starts out with 512MB, and you can go to 1GB for a setup fee of $129.
juliana - Oct 28, 2003 4:53:57 am PST #5831 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Again, a HUGE thank you to Rob, Kristen, ita, Tom, and all the other Geekies. Also Steven.
I can bake and donate goodies, and possibly donate a little $$. Meanwhile, I'll sit back and admire the sexxxxxy smart people.
Trudy Booth - Oct 28, 2003 5:18:28 am PST #5832 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Mmmmm Geekistas...
Jesse - Oct 28, 2003 12:22:26 pm PST #5833 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, uh, what are we going to do? Stick with FG?
§ ita § - Oct 28, 2003 12:25:10 pm PST #5834 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
First I'd like to know Steven's response to the mysql bug news. If we reset the daemon, and drastically drop the number of connections logged as being used, I'd like to know his stance.
Kristen - Oct 28, 2003 12:27:21 pm PST #5835 of 10000
I don't think I understand. What stance?