New Server Build Out

[gouldy]

I am OK with this.

[slosprint]

I don't understand any of it but there is much more green so yahoo!

there you go, you have gouldys permition to continue so proceed

[Mikey]

The ram was ordered yesterday, so should be getting it Wednesday.

[Mikey]

I ordered the ram on a Friday, the vendor was being retarded and it didn't ship till Tuesday and of course didn't arrive until Saturday after my office closed. In short, the ram is waiting for me at the office and should be installed by early AM tomorrow. I also took the liberty of exchanging the two 250GB drives I had purchased localyfor two 750GB drives that were on sale this weekend. (Altho I have to take one back because it is only registering 111GB)

You may be noticing the site is running a little slow this evening, I am presently in the middle of transferring the entire DB over to test the new server setup. Stay tuned, I will announce more concrete deployment plans soon.

The new server looks sweet and it should carry this site onwards for a number a years. And congratulations on the relatively smooth transfer. I know switching servers can be a bitch.

Just a question, did you think of putting this up on Amazon EC2?

[Mikey]

So the ram that went missing almost two weeks ago arrived today (After I ordered half of the replacements for it this morning from NewEgg, you can thank captain Murphy for that I'm sure), unfortunately the ram that arrived today caused the server to be unstable with random blue screens and was only registering 7454MB when it should be 8192MB. I have already contacted them to get an RMA and shipped the bad ram back UPS overnight for a refund. I also ordered 4GB from NewEgg today and it should be here sometime between now and Friday, when one of the vendors issues me a refund for the other stuff I RMAed I will order the other 4GB from NewEgg as well. The bad drive was returned a few days ago and the new one is installed and working great.

Server 2008 R2 X64 and SQL Server 2008 X64 R2 are installed, tested, and working quite well. I have been testing the server with 8GB of non-ecc ram and under a 15K hits per minute bench mark ram usage was only about 1200MB, which is almost half of what the current server uses with half as many hits.

I was able to install the COMs that CC needs to run and from what I can tell they are working, However I was only able to install an unmodded version of snitz, but I think the CC code will work as well.

With all of the delays I think we are going to miss our November 1st deadline, I have decided to push the migration back to the 10th which better aligns with everyone's schedules and will give me enough time to get the kinks worked out.

[Mikey]

So the server build out is complete. Stay tuned for updates.