Hi team, I was interested to read the thouhts on expanding the Peimenet servers, having separate comms and database servers etc. This is all a great idea but it reminded me instantly of the SETI experience. I've been a Seti (Classic) user sporadically since early 2000 and ithey wee constantly expanding, splitting off functions onto additional servers, upgrading disk arrays, adding bandwidth etc as they grew. Every few weeks there would be a probelm of some sort and one part of the system would be down for a day, and then it would take many days for the whole assembalge to restabilise, with servers gradually ploughing through their backlog and other servers starved of data, users couldn;t get fresh datasets, or check their stats on the web server(s) etc. So I'm just wondeing that whilst Primenet may be a simple system that's somewaht overloaded at times, whetehr keeping it simple could be a good conservative choice ?? Perhaps just upgrade what you have, ie faster cpu, more disk, in one go. Cheers, Greg E
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