Alertra monitoring on for the system
 

Thanks to our generous tip mug hitters, we are now monitored by Alertra. If cellar.org goes away for more than 5 minutes, I am automatically TXTd. If it's still away 5 minutes later, I get an email.

Since I use TXT for my work's paging system, I am always on top of TXT messages and now will know very quickly when the site is in trouble. If you find it down, chances are I already know and am working on it.

We are now in a new server fund timeframe, during which parts of the tip mug are saved in order to fund a completely new server. This also goes for tip-mug overages. I'm aiming for a Supermicro server with 4 hot-swap SATA drive bays, duel Xeon processors, and 16 MB of memory. This will make us more stable by going to a RAID 5 configuration for disk, and will power through any Digg'ing or Reddit'ing or Fark'ing we ever generate. We will have enough space to manage attached images - and even perhaps videos? - and enough database power to manage our years of messages without having to delete any of them.

16 MB of memory?

GB. I keep making that mistake.

tell clodfobble to work faster. those kegels aren't going to do themselves.

grinned out loud

How much?

I think it's like 800 for the barebones server, 2x200 for the CPUs, 4x100 for the disks, 100 for the rack rails. It's possible to do cheaper but I think this configuration would serve us well.

i'll throw an extra splash in the mug this month toward that end.

Well, Linux is supposed to need less memory than Windows to run effectively.

I heard the lumbernets runs on DSL, from a floppy disc.