Apparently, the MSI forum server runs Debian amd64. Cool, eh? -s -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: MSI HQ User to User Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: New announcement: MSI will replace all servers..... > Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:38:11 -0400 > > Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:38:06 +0000 > X-Mailer: SMF > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi guys, > > Finally MSI and the forum team reached an agreement. > As you know the current forum server is incredibly fast. > > MSI has done some testing the last few days with new fileservers for > LiveUpdate and downloading various stuff but they where unable to match the > speed of the forum server. > > Because they noticed we do such a good job of running the forum, they wanted > us to takeover all other servers and put everything on the forum server. > > This includes their marketting/support websites, fileservers and all other > forums. > We think our server can handle all this traffic with ease. > > Our current traffic is between 100~200GB each month, but we think our > connection can handle all the traffic and should give better results. > MSI thinks that the current server can do all their other traffic as well. > > It might slowdown the forum a little bit, but we expect no major problems. > This move will happen beginning of the second quarter this year. > > Our forum server is build with this stuff: > > 2x Xeon 2.8GHz > 2x 15000 RPM SCSI drive's in RAID1 (but we are going to add 2 more for RAID5 > to gain about 275MB/s speed) > 2x 1GB memory reg ecc > Debian AMD64 with all the latest updates. > > Tests so far has shown that we can handle MSI's traffic of 27TB/month isn't a > problem. > So please test the speed of everything the first day of next quarter, we are > moving bits and pieces that day and hope to recieve reports on the speed. > > There might be a nice supprice for the best reporter on how the move is > going, but I'm not allowed what that will be. > > I will post shortly the email address that can be used to send in reports. > > [Edit]The move has been done. > You can use this link to test the new servers: http://www.msi.eu > Also, you can sent in speed reports here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe from these announcements, login to the forum and uncheck > "Receive forum announcements and important notifications by email." in your > profile. > > You can view the full announcement by following this link: > > http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=106503.0 > > Regards, > The MSI HQ User to User Forum Team.
-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
