Well i havent posted since June last year, because i basically have very little free time these days....
To be honest, it's been that way for about the last 10 years, now.
Anyway - onto matters of state; Gateworld's hardware has been majorly beefed up over the past 2-3 months, and including some major software upgrades carried out over the last few weeks, we are now ready to embrace Season 5 of Atlantis.
We have had to slow down the rate at which Yahoo bots craw our site - If you are a regular Yahoo searcher, i'd reccomend boycotting Yahoo Search for either Google or MSN Search, as their crawler/spider has cost Gateworld thousands of dollars in hardware/bandwidth costs over the last 18-24 months.
Anyway for those of you techie types out there who want to know what we are running, here are the fast facts -
We have 2 primary servers - our main US Server is
2 x Quad Core Xeon E5405's at 2Ghz
8GB 667Mhz FBDIMM DDR2 Memory
4 x 15k RPM 146GB SAS drives in RAID 10
Our Australian Server, which hosts SciFi Stream, and a host of other things we use from day to day is -
2 x Quad Core Xeon X5355's at 2.66Ghz
16GB 667Mhz FBDIMM DDR2 Memory
6 x 15k RPM 146GB SAS drives in RAID 5
Software wise -
- Apache 2.2 hosts the main website
- Lighttpd 1.4.x hosts the Forums, and Gateworld Play streams
- MySQL 5.0 for our Forums & Gallery databases
- Gentoo and Ubuntu Linux for our platforms, aswell as VMWare on our Australian Server.
Thats all from me for now, catch you on the forums.
Greg is GateWorld's server administrator, keeping the Web site's hardware
optimized and online. He's also a big Stargate fan, and lives with
his wife and son in Perth, Australia.
