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CDS · Post by **CDS** » 2005-02-03 07:11pm

That looks like the http header's been screwed up

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-02-05 12:34pm

Zaia, it looks like your browser forgot to decompress the GZIP-compressed stream (HTTP 1/1 supports GZIP content compression in order to reduce bandwidth).

BTW, the power supply failed in the server last night, so I replaced it this morning and we're back up and running. Actually, I replaced the whole case with a new roomier ANTEC "Sonata" case. Quite a nice case; I'm very pleased with it. The people who made the old case with its crappy power supply, on the other hand, can suck my balls.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2005-02-05 12:39pm

Darth Wong wrote:BTW, the power supply failed in the server last night, so I replaced it this morning and we're back up and running. Actually, I replaced the whole case with a new roomier ANTEC "Sonata" case. Quite a nice case; I'm very pleased with it. The people who made the old case with its crappy power supply, on the other hand, can suck my balls.

How much did this set you back financially?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-02-05 12:56pm

Stofsk wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:BTW, the power supply failed in the server last night, so I replaced it this morning and we're back up and running. Actually, I replaced the whole case with a new roomier ANTEC "Sonata" case. Quite a nice case; I'm very pleased with it. The people who made the old case with its crappy power supply, on the other hand, can suck my balls.
How much did this set you back financially?

$150. Not a really big deal in the grand scheme of things.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2005-02-05 01:14pm

Huzzah for Mike then! I had wondered how SDN had gone offline before checking the main page. At least we lost no data, not that it's a problem with daily backups.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-02-05 01:23pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Huzzah for Mike then! I had wondered how SDN had gone offline before checking the main page. At least we lost no data, not that it's a problem with daily backups.

As an aside, did you know that the daily backup file is over 500MB even with compression?

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2005-02-05 01:30pm

I must admit you got fixed pretty quickly. Your message mentioned things about 'parts' and I was thinking like motherboards, networkcards, etc. So it was just the case then?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-02-05 01:34pm

Crown wrote:I must admit you got fixed pretty quickly. Your message mentioned things about 'parts' and I was thinking like motherboards, networkcards, etc. So it was just the case then?

Yes, just the case (well, the power supply to be precise, but it was easier to replace the whole case than to replace the custom power supply, and this time I got a really nice case/PS). But the case is, of course, the hardest part to replace because you have to completely tear everything apart and then put it all back together again.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-02-05 01:47pm

Darth Wong wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:Huzzah for Mike then! I had wondered how SDN had gone offline before checking the main page. At least we lost no data, not that it's a problem with daily backups.
As an aside, did you know that the daily backup file is over 500MB even with compression?

What the HECK is your drive made out of? 1TB?!

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2005-02-05 01:52pm

Crown wrote:I must admit you got fixed pretty quickly. Your message mentioned things about 'parts' and I was thinking like motherboards, networkcards, etc. So it was just the case then?

I was assuming we'd be down for most of the weekend. I checked one last time before I was going to log off and lo and behold.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2005-02-05 01:55pm

Stravo wrote:
Crown wrote:I must admit you got fixed pretty quickly. Your message mentioned things about 'parts' and I was thinking like motherboards, networkcards, etc. So it was just the case then?
I was assuming we'd be down for most of the weekend. I checked one last time before I was going to log off and lo and behold.

Same here. Good job, Lord Wong.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2005-02-05 02:03pm

Ace Pace wrote:What the HECK is your drive made out of? 1TB?!

He said 500 *Mega*bytes, not 500 *Giga*bytes.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-02-05 02:10pm

Crayz9000 wrote:
Ace Pace wrote:What the HECK is your drive made out of? 1TB?!
He said 500 *Mega*bytes, not 500 *Giga*bytes.

500MB every day.
500*365=182500MB
182GB per year.
Over 500GB in 3 years of operations....

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2005-02-05 02:22pm

Ace Pace wrote:500MB every day.
500*365=182500MB
182GB per year.
Over 500GB in 3 years of operations....

Uh, that would be why you purge old backups...

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2005-02-05 06:47pm

Ace Pace wrote:500MB every day.
500*365=182500MB
182GB per year.
Over 500GB in 3 years of operations....

Blah one LTO tape holds 400gb conpressed 500gb in three years is nothing.

My daily server backup at work is somwhere around 1TB. And there is way more data in the SAN but we don't backup that.

Back to topic, I am inpressed that you got the site back up so fast, I thought that a dead PS would have sd.net down untill monday at the earliest. Happy to se that I am wrong

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-02-05 09:05pm

Faram wrote:
Ace Pace wrote:500MB every day.
500*365=182500MB
182GB per year.
Over 500GB in 3 years of operations....
Blah one LTO tape holds 400gb conpressed 500gb in three years is nothing.

My daily server backup at work is somwhere around 1TB. And there is way more data in the SAN but we don't backup that.

Heh heh ... that would be cool, although I don't intend to buy that kind of heavy-duty backup capacity.

Back to topic, I am inpressed that you got the site back up so fast, I thought that a dead PS would have sd.net down untill monday at the earliest. Happy to se that I am wrong

I don't know if most people realize that I used to be a sysadmin. It's been a few years but I can still tear down and reassemble a computer in my sleep.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2005-02-06 11:53am

Darth Wong wrote: As an aside, did you know that the daily backup file is over 500MB even with compression?

Ouch! I have to wonder how much bandwidth we use a month. It must cost a bomb compared to when we were in our infancy.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-02-06 12:47pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:As an aside, did you know that the daily backup file is over 500MB even with compression?
Ouch! I have to wonder how much bandwidth we use a month. It must cost a bomb compared to when we were in our infancy.

I believe the bandwidth is around 50GB per month despite the use of GZIP inline compression. That's pretty big for a site that is mostly text. This is why I self-host on a broadband connection which doesn't bill for bandwidth until it gets quite huge.

As for the size of the backup, it's a full backup rather than an incremental backup (it's tricky to make incremental backups of a database, as opposed to a filesystem), and remember that 1.4 million posts will consume a fair bit of space, especially with the fulltext search tables.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-02-12 11:24pm

Sorry about being somewhat absent lately. I've been a little busy, which is also why the board was down for a brief period while I was rearranging furniture. Just posting a warning now that it will probably happen at least once more (during this coming week, probably on a weekday afternoon), as I still need to move some things around.

You can do a lot of things in software to make a server run with good uptimes, but there's really no way to keep it up and running if you need to move the thing around.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2005-02-12 11:29pm

Darth Wong wrote:You can do a lot of things in software to make a server run with good uptimes, but there's really no way to keep it up and running if you need to move the thing around.

Circa 1990, when you couldn't help but be pummeled by the media's interpretation of how the information superhighway was going to revolutionise the planet, I kept thinking to myself how singularly un-impressive computers were when you pulled the plug.

15 years later, here I am with nearly 9000 posts to my credit on a web-board.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2005-02-15 04:16pm

What's with the peptom-whatever porn spam popping up in Testing as of late? Is it a person or a clever forum-crawling bot?

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2005-02-17 03:46pm

Hmm, I can't access the Archive Board at the moment, and the board alternates from 'smooth' running to 'slow as fuck'. And I have disconnected and restarted my computer. Anyone else having this problem?

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2005-02-17 03:52pm

Crown wrote:Hmm, I can't access the Archive Board at the moment, and the board alternates from 'smooth' running to 'slow as fuck'. And I have disconnected and restarted my computer. Anyone else having this problem?

Board is minimally on the slow side but consistent. Archive is definitely down, though. Timeout trying to connect. What was your problem with the archive?

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2005-02-17 03:54pm

Batman wrote:
Crown wrote:Hmm, I can't access the Archive Board at the moment, and the board alternates from 'smooth' running to 'slow as fuck'. And I have disconnected and restarted my computer. Anyone else having this problem?
Board is minimally on the slow side but consistent. Archive is definitely down, though. Timeout trying to connect. What was your problem with the archive?

Same, times out when trying to connect.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2005-02-17 07:15pm

UPDATE: The Archive seems to be back online.