New DCEmu Network server

[Martin]

The other day wraggster posted about a new server that was going to replace the old DCEmu server. The plan was to have the new server up and running this past weekend but the server move has taken a bit longer than expected.

However, the move is finally complete and you're seeing DCEmu hosted on a brand new server with the following specs:

AMD Opteron 1356 QuadCore 64 Bit, 4 x 2.3 GHz
8 GB DDR2-RAM
2 x 1000 GB SATA-HDD in RAID
Debian 64 Bit
100 Mbit/s connection

I'm also looking to update vBulletin to the latest version ASAP.

Hopefully this should speed up the delivery of pages when the traffic is high. :)

[acn010]

is that you martin????
and wow nice specs for a server :D

[Martin]

It is me indeed :p

Yeah we needed a beast of a server, DCEmu has a lot of visitors ;)

[ojdon]

Wow nice spec. I'm sure that the server is going to perform much better now. Any reason why you used Debian instead of say CentOS? Just curious. :)

[Martin]

Not any particular reason, CentOS is popular for servers as well. I've used Debian for all the servers the past few years, I like the stability and know the package system pretty well by now. So I guess it's mostly because I'm used to it. :p

[wraggster]

/me walks away hasnt got a clue what centos is :P

[brandonheat8]

I see the speed already, its blazing fast, thanks Martin.

[ojdon]

/me walks away hasnt got a clue what centos is :P

It's a Linux Distribution, commonly used for servers. I must give Debian a try sometime as a Server OS.

[Sonny_Jim]

Centos is a pile of wank, I've no idea why it's so popular. I think it's because it's based on RHEL.

What RAID level are you running? I hope it's RAID1 and not RAID0.

[Martin]

Centos is a pile of wank, I've no idea why it's so popular. I think it's because it's based on RHEL.

What RAID level are you running? I hope it's RAID1 and not RAID0.

Yeah RAID 1 of course :p