I'm happy to report that all 4 of our web servers are now online. You won't know which server is serving your particular request but if you click the n Online Users link above and scroll to the bottom it will tell you in light gray text. The web farm is configured as follows:

monkey - This is our original web server that has been online for 1.5 years and the one that has been crashing a lot lately. It's a dual Pentium 3 866Mhz unit with 2GB of RAM

gator and croc - These are our new 1.7Ghz Pentium 4 servers with 1.5GB of RAM. Thanks to SilverSurfer for suppling these units. If you need hardware, talk to him!

lion - This is a new (used) dual Pentium 3 866Mhz with 1.5GB RAM unit. It handles everything that isn't s2ki.com and a small portion of the s2ki traffic (10% or so).

We have another system named tiger which is our database and network file server. I runs the database and stores all of your photo as well and server logs. It's a dual Pentium 3 450Mhz system with 1GB of RAM. Tiger is strictly backend.

I addition we have the load balancer/firewall which balances the network load among the 4 web servers and detects of they are alive or not. It's also the firewall which keeps unwanted traffic out.

There are 2 major upgrades yet to perform:

- Replace the hard disks in tiger's RAID array with larger ones (in about 1-2 months)
- A new database server system, tiger will become a file server only. (3-4 months)

Your memberships make these upgrades possible and keep s2ki the best community of auto enthusiasts around. Please consider becoming a member and help us in this effort. Your support does make a difference so please become a member today. Sorry for the plug but someone has to do it

Thanks for all of your support. We've turned a crisis into pure joy in less than a week and you have helped make this possible. The net benefit you'll see from these and other changes include:

- MUCH FASTER access to the site. It will be very snappy as compared to what it was. No more waiting ages for pages to load.
- MORE RELIABLE now that we have 4 servers instead of just 1 handling web traffic. We can bring servers up and down now without shutting down the site. We are very close to 5 9's uptime now (not quite but close).

Cheers and enjoy the ride

 

Beautiful..

Thank you sir

 

Lion's, Gator's and Monkey's, oh my!

 

we need to be able to add soundclips to threads..

that way I could send a Waaa Waaaa to PFB

thats the bad joke sound not the crying sound... see words just can't pull it off sometimes

 

Including the Firewall, Combined s2ki is over 8.5 GHz CPU and 8.5 Gigs of RAM.