{"id":151,"date":"2008-05-29T23:26:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T06:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2017-04-29T05:20:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T12:20:29","slug":"time-for-a-bigger-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/time-for-a-bigger-machine","title":{"rendered":"Time for a Bigger Machine!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/supercomputer.jpg\" title=\"Supercomputer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are currently hosting <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\">lifeboat.com<\/a> on free web space provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/rubyredlabs.com\">rubyredlabs.com<\/a>. Due to the growth in our traffic plus more general activity on this server, it would be best if we had our own server.<\/p>\n<p>Note that we have additional space from KurzweilAI.net on a shared server (shared with many domains) but the shared server is always rather loaded since it has so many domains on it so we don\u2019t host our main pages on it. (We use the shared server for backups, file transfers, and less important domains.) <\/p>\n<p>Our current solution is to stay with the same provider as <a href=\"http:\/\/rubyredlabs.com\">rubyredlabs.com<\/a> but to move to our own machine. (This should simplify the transition.) The current provider is <a href=\"http:\/\/theplanet.com\">theplanet.com<\/a>. We plan on getting: Intel Xeon 3210 Quad Core Kentsfield Processor, 250GB HDD, 4GB RAM, 2500GB bandwidth, 10 IPs, 100mbps uplink \u2014 $199 monthly \/ $25 setup.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome any feedback. We are currently on a system equal to: Celeron 2.0, 80GB HDD, 1GB RAM, 750GB bandwidth, 5 IPs, 10mbps uplink \u2014 $89 monthly \/ $0 setup but don\u2019t have access to all the systems resources. We just finished completing an upgrade so both our blog pages and regular web pages are cached, enabling us to handle a lot of traffic but it doesn\u2019t help much if the server has activity on it besides ours which is not cached\u2026 We also upgraded our spam filter so it runs about one thousand times as fast which was rather helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Our traffic is around 150GB but obviously if it surged a lot it is easier to pay for more bandwidth than to get a new machine on the spot. Also our current machine is running FreeBSD \u2014 we plan on getting Red Hat 5 since we have a choice.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome your input on this!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Jaan Tallinn, cofounder of <a href=\"http:\/\/skype.com\">Skype<\/a>, the only major IM client that both securely authenticates conversation. participants, and encrypts the communication, gets us started with a <a href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/ex\/time.for.a.bigger.machine\">$300 donation<\/a>. Our goal is to raise $2,500 to pay for a faster machine for a year.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE II: <a href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/ex\/bios.chris.k.haley\">Chris Haley<\/a> agrees to become <a href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/ex\/staff\">System Administrator<\/a> for our new machine. He also donates $1,500 bringing our <a href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/ex\/time.for.a.bigger.machine\">Bigger Machine Fund<\/a> to $1,925. Only $575 to go!<\/p>\n<p>SUCCESS! We were able to quickly raise $3,400 for our <a href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/ex\/time.for.a.bigger.machine\">Bigger Machine Fund<\/a> \u2014 far exceeding our goal of $2,500. Additional funds raised will be used to pay for additional months, for improved network\/software\/hardware security, and for a backup plan. Long-term, we plan on hosting our site with more than one provider for the ultimate in backup plans. The more you donate, the more infrastructure we will implement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are currently hosting lifeboat.com on free web space provided by rubyredlabs.com. Due to the growth in our traffic plus more general activity on this server, it would be best if we had our own server. 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