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!
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Originally Posted by ZERO
all the best ZERO.
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