BRRRAAAINNNSSSSS.... give me your BRAAAINNSS

By coryking written 3/20/06 6:08 PM, published 3/20/06 6:08 PM

I've just ordered 512mb more ram for the photographica's webserver which will bump it to a whopping 1gig.  In theory, it should work out of the box.  In.  Theory.  It's a bit older of a machine (in fact, it was made in 1998) so there is question as to if it will work at all.

For the chronic refreshers, that is why the server was down for 30 minutes.  I had to pull it from its cozy little rack and see exactly what was inside.

For those that care, here is what is inside:

ansel.xlan.org: aka Photographica/Artclick Webserver

  • 1u Dell Poweredge 350
  • P3 750mhz /w 440bx intel chipset
  • 512mb ecc/registered PC100 ram
  • Two old ghetto 70 gig IDE hard drives on a (software) RAID1 array.
  • SuSE 9.2 Linux
  • Apache 1.3.7 /w mod_perl & mod_ssl
  • Photographica's codebase (2.8 megs of pure perl code)
  • Memcached
strider.xlan.org: aka Photographica Database Server
  • 4u, whitebox, old school case (arg)
  • p4 2ghz
  • 512mb ram
  • two 120gig IDE drives on a raid1 array (also software)
  • SuSE 9.2 Linux
  • mySQL 5
  • Also running subversion for version control and FogBugz for issue tracking.
Facility
  • colo'd with my hosting company, XLAN, which is nestled into a half rack in Colo Centers on the 18th floor of the Westin Building in Downtown Seattle.
  • 100mbit internet connection (about 100 times faster then your typical high speed internet such as DSL)
  • All the bells & whistles that come with colo: generator, battery, AC, beefy guys with shotguns (they really aren't that beefy though)
Someday I might take pictures, but I suspect that such an act might be frowned upon for security purposes.


 
  • Beholden
    This nerd-dom.....is sooooo hot! :oP

    - ummmm


  • debora
    hu?

  • coryking
    Summary? Two older, ghetto servers located in a really, really nice facility. Someday soon I hope to build out and buy better hardware for photographica/artclick.

    - Spike Lee


  • smalltown05
    Do you speaka de english?

    - blow.....hard


  • northstar
    Yup, just what I thought you were using to run this site.

  • Lidljo
    Wow, I don't understand much about it, but Wow!!

    - Flowers are happiness...


  • Anonymous Hero
    Im surprised the site works as well as it does

  • Pyro43
    Waaaay over the head of moi. Should it be a lot slower now? Or is it just me?

    - Mmmmmm... Multiplicative


  • coryking
    Anon, I am too! It only works because of a **lot** of tweaking to it's original codebase. You also gotta tweak the hell out of apache as well.

    - Spike Lee


  • KayN
    NOW I know why the site went crazy a bit ago! Yeah, sure, I understood everything you said, Cory....just don't ask me to repeat it or explain it.... :) Just know that you are greatly appreciated for all you do....

    - Ms.N


  • coryking
    For anon: I'll add, what I really need is another webserver. That way I can use the new one for all the code and the old one for images. That right there would make a huge impact.

    - Spike Lee


  • Penny
    Cory you just do what you do. I will leave that to you and not even pretend to understand!

    - Smile


  • Yard Dog
    Sorry...I gave at the office...:<)

    - I need a nap.


  • kwsNI
    Hey, n00b, quit spamming the site with ads for your other websites and post pictures. This is a photography site.

    - Contumelious


  • codepoit
    friggin geek...

    - I'm Special!


  • loweho
    you sound like my son-in-law, Cody, he's got like 5 big servers in his bedroom. I think he uses them to heat the house. They named all of them after drugs from Eli Lilly cause my daughter is a microbiologist there.

    - Fickle Finger of F8


  • ROCKADEE
    That's Great Cory...But Where The Heck Is My T-Shirt...LOL!!!!

    - NATURE RULES!!!


  • coryking
    Still at the printers.

    - Spike Lee


  • chef009
    My computer is named Hal

    - With these Hands


  • loweho
    I wish he'd open your pod bay doors, Chef!

    - Fickle Finger of F8


  • austinspace
    Here's Cory hard at work in front of his "big server". Photo taken last night.

    - here and there


  • Beholden
    oh JOHNNY.......that was PRICELESS....... high Five ^ my friend.....ROFLMAO!! :oP

    - ummmm


  • KayN
    How funny, John!

    - Ms.N


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