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

Undertoad;482130 wrote:

a completely new server.

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.

HungLikeJesus;482134 wrote:

16 MB of memory?

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

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