[Wayne 962]

Hi all. Bad news! Our ISP appears to be going out of business. The unfortunate thing about it is that it seems that we might have contributed to their failure (well slightly).

When I first moved servers over to them about 2 years ago, we were dishing out about 18 gigs of traffic each day. Now (and I had to check 3-4 times to make sure I was right), we're delivering more than 6 gigs per day (about 180 gigs a month). More than tenfold of where we were two years ago. Needless to say, I don't think they increased my rates enough...

Anyways, we're looking to move the server in-house and separate them into a BBS machine, and a website machine. This will make the access to the BBS a lot faster. I think lately, some of you might have noticed a hesitancy on the server when dishing out pages. This was caused by server procesor bottleneck and not connection bandwidth. I've increased the time between searches to 30 seconds (I'm sure you've noticed that) to decrease the bam-bam-bam server load associated with multiple searches, but there is still a problem.

The overall goal is to move the server(s) in-house to our HQ location in El Segundo. However, I'm not sure if we need 1 or 2 T1 lines run to our location. So, over the next day or so, I'm going to be running some simulation tests on the server, basically limited it to T1 speeds, to see if there is a slowdown.

Since some of you use the board and the site even more than I do, please let me know if all of a sudden the site seems much slower. I've limited the output of the server to 150K/sec. Granted, this should only show up in high-load times, and might even be caused by processor overload.

Well, I guess that at least these are good problems to have...

-Wayne