Where are all the posts?
 

The server crashed this morning, because the file sizes associated with this BBS got to be way too big! So, I copied them to a safe place, and deleted the old ones from the system. Unfortunately, there is too much stuff here to constantly keep everything 'live.'

Instead, I have archived these posts for future use. I will have a searchable archive of the older posts in the near future. You won't be able to post to these, but at least you'll be able to read them...

The server crashing is a byproduct of our success!

-Wayne

Wayne, you need to go get a sun enterprise 250!! How much free space is left on your drives?

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Ted Stringer
nuke3@juno.com
'84 911 Targa aka pocketrocket

Thanks for your efforts Wayne.

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Clint
73T mfi coupe

Wayne -

<a href="http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/BrowsePage.jhtml?cid=70636">Here's what you need.</a>

(Just please don't raise your prices.)

Are you running up against Win2K file size limits? I can't imagine this is actually a disk storage issue, with the megamonster drives available now. I think single drives are available now up to what, 160GB? Or was that 320GB? (IBM just announced a new one)

Anyhow, thanks for all the great work. You guys rule!

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Chris C.
73 914 2.0
70 911E Targa
campbell.chris@gte.net

[This message has been edited by campbellcj (edited 09-26-2001).]

There's a few too many digits in those price tags. I can't imagine that 1000 chained WinNT or Linux machines wouldn't be better!

UBB is not the greatest software, and wasn't written for a forum to grow this big. Several other users have the same problem. The machine is great 20% utilization most of the time! The UBB is the only thing that causes problems...

I have 80 gigs of space (using about 2-3 for the site) and a a gig of memory that the server almost never uses. A webserver really doesn't need as much power as a normal file server, unless you get into millions of users a day...

-Wayne

What database are you using together with UBB? You aren't using Access arent you? http://www.pelicanparts.com/ultimate/smile.gif)

Many are using MyPHP which isn't the best thing around, at least not under W2k. I recomend Microsoft SQL 2000, it works like charm. I'm personally using it for big projects with over a gig of data in database.

You say you have a gig of RAM and most of it is unused which sounds weird if you really use 2-3 gig of space for UBB. (Most of those gigs should be database-files, right?)

Go with Win2k and Microsoft SQL! It's pretty straightforward conversion...(albeit MS-SQL 2k costs around 1200$, but it's still much cheaper than worse-performing Oracle)

Sun? Yeah right...as Wayne said, too many zeros, too geeky, and not better performing.

Few years ago Novell was in the same "we are geeks, that's why we are better"-thing. Look what happened with Novell's market share now.

Linux, MySQL and Php works pretty good too. (Pretty geeky to setup, but it's free)