Major server migration

[ZERO]

As of NOW, I have ordered a major upgrade to our infrastructure. For relatively the same monthly cost we will be having a 30-100% performance increase on all servers and in the case of load times as high as 400%. This is possible by replacing our 1 dual processor server with 2 faster single cpu servers. We still have the same 8 cpu cores across the 2 servers but we now have greater redundancy and performance. Our raw per core clock speeds will increase by 30%. Our total available memory will increase by 100%. Our total thread support will increase by 100% due to HT. Our total HDD space and bandwidth will increase by 400% by going from 1 drive to 2 drives per server which allows us to separate out the servers across different disks to improve load times. Your pings will stay the same as the new servers will be in the same room just 1 or 2 racks down. In fact they will likely sit behind the same exact routers the current server does today.

So why is all this craziness being done? Well thanks to the expansion of the community over the years it is time to increase our capacity so that we may open new servers down the road and offer increased performance on our existing ones. We have used our existing server for over 4 years and it has been thanks to all of your support in that time that we have made it this far. I hope that all of you will continue to support IBIS Gaming and make the next 4 years on our new servers even better than the last 4!

During the migration time all servers will be taken offline to be moved over to there new locations. I will likely do this process on MONDAY. However there will be a heads up right before it occurs. In the mean time I will be getting the servers prepared for the swap out. The two new servers should be ready for me to look at by tonight.

Also, before anyone asks no this will not effect your rank/levels and no it will not effect the ability to get sourcetv demos after the move. However you may want to be fast about dling them right now b/c once the switch starts you will not be able to get them until it is done.

As for the server IPs they will be migrated to the new servers after the data is moved over. The servers are not expected to have any IP address changes


Once again thank you all for making this massive upgrade possible. I think we all look forward to the newer and faster servers!

[CYBER]

As of NOW, I have ordered a major upgrade to our infrastructure. For relatively the same monthly cost we will be having a 30-100% performance increase on all servers and in the case of load times as high as 400%. This is possible by replacing our 1 dual processor server with 2 faster single cpu servers. We still have the same 8 cpu cores across the 2 servers but we now have greater redundancy and performance. Our raw per core clock speeds will increase by 30%. Our total available memory will increase by 100%. Our total thread support will increase by 100% due to HT. Our total HDD space and bandwidth will increase by 400% by going from 1 drive to 2 drives per server which allows us to separate out the servers across different disks to improve load times. Your pings will stay the same as the new servers will be in the same room just 1 or 2 racks down. In fact they will likely sit behind the same exact routers the current server does today.

So why is all this craziness being done? Well thanks to the expansion of the community over the years it is time to increase our capacity so that we may open new servers down the road and offer increased performance on our existing ones. We have used our existing server for over 4 years and it has been thanks to all of your support in that time that we have made it this far. I hope that all of you will continue to support IBIS Gaming and make the next 4 years on our new servers even better than the last 4!

During the migration time all servers will be taken offline to be moved over to there new locations. I will likely do this process on MONDAY. However there will be a heads up right before it occurs. In the mean time I will be getting the servers prepared for the swap out. The two new servers should be ready for me to look at by tonight.

Also, before anyone asks no this will not effect your rank/levels and no it will not effect the ability to get sourcetv demos after the move. However you may want to be fast about dling them right now b/c once the switch starts you will not be able to get them until it is done.

As for the server IPs they will be migrated to the new servers after the data is moved over. The servers are not expected to have any IP address changes


Once again thank you all for making this massive upgrade possible. I think we all look forward to the newer and faster servers!

WOOT.
do you think this will solve the wcs random lag spikes issues and long map loads?
what about the overall gg "choppyness" of the game that is most notably seen there ?

[ZERO]

WOOT.
do you think this will solve the wcs random lag spikes issues and long map loads?
what about the overall gg "choppyness" of the game that is most notably seen there ?

Yes, dramatically so. Right this instance we are using 4.5GB of memory and we have 4GB of ram. The new setup will have twice the amount of ram and will separate the ns2 and CS:S servers physically.

[CYBER]

and will separate the ns2 and CS:S servers physically.

(http://www.ibisgaming.com/forums/sho...ve-NS2-servers)

Halle-fucking-lujah!!

good job zero! and thanks for all the work you put in. love these servers.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

how about NS2?

i think its safe to say our NS2 server is the most populated server that generally has less than 50% performance. its far worse than gg. will this bring about a nice performance boost?

[ZERO]

Yes we will be getting much higher performance at 3.4GHz and especially with the increase in RAM. Remember that the ns2 servers only care about single core performance and for that benchmarks show that we should get dramatic improvements in speed.

[Assassin]

Sounds good Zero. Thanks for the upgrades and updates. This will def help out.

[Carmichal]

Yayyyy

[ZERO]

Also as I have ordered other servers for other companies via softlayer and they have given me some deals I might end up with even better specs. So wait until the announcement next week as it might be even faster than what I am saying.

[ZERO]

IF it was not obvious the move is occurring now. As the servers are very large it will take a few hours to copy the ZM server over. I will do the gg and wcs after that as they should be fast by comparison. While the servers are being copied they will be off. They will stay off until we move all the servers over and then move the ips to the new servers. After this I will then start to bring the servers online 1 at a time.