AoV is relocating to a new server [cancelled]

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:46 pm

*** This has been canceled, as the lower end server was only $7 cheaper***

Due to rising costs, I am moving AoV to a lower end server that will most likely still be capable of handing the load. Rather then a quad xeon 2.8 we are moving to a dual xeon 2.4, with same ram and less disk space. I will work on squeezing the most out of that server, and all should be good.

I did not get the final price yet but I estimate we will save about $25/mo which is not much, but still adds up over time. Donations are always an asset to keeping the shard running, especially during these times as our dollar is at an all time low. The payments will be around 140/mo rather then 185/mo or so. (estimating right now).

I will make further updates to this thread once the move begins. I should be able to make it seamless like I did last time, in exception of a slightly longer server wars wait period (maybe 10 minutes).

I estimate that by Friday everything will be final.

I will also look at moving all the iceteks websites to this server to save another additional 30/mo for hosting. Considering this server runs the DNS, I'm putting all my eggs in one basket anyway so if I'm going to have a single point of failure, might as well do it right.

In the future this will change as I will look into a fail over solution, once I get into web hosting business.

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d. · Post by d. » Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:49 pm

STFU.

Give me your paypal account. I'll give you the money to keep the higher end server going.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:50 pm

The donate button goes to my paypal.

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d. · Post by d. » Tue Apr 28, 2009 6:54 pm

Red Squirrel wrote:The donate button goes to my paypal.

Deal.

Give me a day or 2 =].

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Death · Post by **Death** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:06 pm

d. wrote:STFU.

Give me your paypal account. I'll give you the money to keep the higher end server going.

To be fair, the higher end server really isn't all that necessary as it was only using a small fraction of its resources anyways. One of the largest speed issues is not caused by the server, rather the shard's core.

Red's been doing a lot of core modifications and we have been doing a lot of tests to make things more efficient speed wise so chances are there won't be a performance hit with the new server and performance will improve once the new core and code are released.

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d. · Post by d. » Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:07 pm

Donated.

Let me know when you need more =p. I'm not made of money, but I'm more than willing to pitch in for a "free" server I've gotten to play on for the past two years =].

As for everyone else who plays:

DONATE!!!

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d. · Post by d. » Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:07 pm

Death wrote:
d. wrote:STFU.

Give me your paypal account. I'll give you the money to keep the higher end server going.
To be fair, the higher end server really isn't all that necessary as it was only using a small fraction of its resources anyways. One of the largest speed issues is not caused by the server, rather the shard's core.

Red's been doing a lot of core modifications and we have been doing a lot of tests to make things more efficient speed wise so chances are there won't be a performance hit with the new server and performance will improve once the new core and code are released.

Regardless,

It was about time I made a donation anyways.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:07 pm

Thanks for the donation, very well appreciated.

As for the core the biggest culpit is .NET. If we used STL C++ it would be way faster and easier on the server. I've been working on optimizing stuff though.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:52 pm

This has been canceled, as the lower end server was only $7 cheaper. Just got the confirmation now with the price. I could of went cheaper by going only 1 gig of ram, but that would of been very tight.

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