WHEN will PPRUNE get a decent server?
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Password, username and registered e-mail address are irrevocably linked - no outside help I'm afraid much as I'd love it.
I think you ought to buy a Mac - Applescript will log on for you in a trice on as many browsers as you'd like
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PS Looks like we are still on track for the migration to the new server 13th and 14th of March. There may be some outage time but I promise there are a group of people who will be working very hard to minimise it.
I think you ought to buy a Mac - Applescript will log on for you in a trice on as many browsers as you'd like
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Rob
PS Looks like we are still on track for the migration to the new server 13th and 14th of March. There may be some outage time but I promise there are a group of people who will be working very hard to minimise it.
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Rob,
I think I type for many when I type "Thanks for all the effort you guys are putting into the upgrade". Great to have 24/7 search back
There will without doubt be complaints, there always are!
Cheers for a great place to hang out
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I think I type for many when I type "Thanks for all the effort you guys are putting into the upgrade". Great to have 24/7 search back
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There will without doubt be complaints, there always are!
Cheers for a great place to hang out
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For me to host this website i would budget it around £3400 per year for first year, this includes the price of the dedicated server.
Let's not forget that the "users online" is a 5 minute average synoptic of useage. That is to say; there might only be 5 requests at any one time going to the host machine.
The main issue would probably be uplink speed; above 1Mbp/s at least. (Iv'e known pentium 200Mhz systems do really well on a T3 uplink, as servers) The other issue is physical memory.
All very complex stuff.....but this is what you get when you work with computers
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et's not forget that the "users online" is a 5 minute average synoptic of useage.
How many requests are being processed at one time is also a function of the length of time it takes to process a request, which is why once things start getting bad on a web server they get really bad. That is why vBulletin (the software pprune uses) turns users away when the CPU load is above a certain figure.
An old Pentium system can indeed flood a T1 line, but not if it is doing tens of database queries to service each request.
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