What powers ScubaBoard (techie post)?

[Ted S]

For the techies (and the curious users out there), I thought I’d give you a little overview of our server and its usage requirements.

ScubaBoard is currently housed on a private dedicated server from Server Matrix (ThePlanet Network). This server features a P4 2.8Ghz processor and (as of 1/19/04) 2GB ram, 80GB drive space and a 1000GB / month bandwidth limit. At present we maintain an average load of between 0.62 and 1.00 and push around 9GB/ day of bandwidth. All in all this server is full from ScubaBoard alone and uses hundreds of gigabytes of bandwidth every month.

We are constantly monitoring the server and anticipate an upgrade may be be necessary within 6 months although the additional ram we have just added may alleviate our load issues.

If you have any questions about the ScubaBoard server please post them here.

 

[DennisS]

What kind of software runs the board. The other forums, deco, spear, yacht etc seem to have a similar setup.

 

[ckharlan66]

It is at the bottom of each page (in case you want to keep up as new releases come out) but currently Scubaboard is:

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The various versions of vBulletin are popular with a lot of boards.

Chad

 

[DennisS]

Thanks, I've never scrolled down that far

 

[blacknet]

Hello,

Why not dual processors with a raid array? your i/o time would be drasticaly reduced and some type of redundancy. I was thinking the board would take up more than 80 gigs with all the photo's. Also what about tape backups?

Ed

 

[Ted S]

We do some backups, mainly for the database though. As for the dual processor system, we could use one but we don't need one right now, as time passes and the board continues to expand we will provide the hardware to meet the needs of the software.

 

[detroit diver]

Just curious-what kind of pipes do you have coming into the network to service this many users at one time?

 

[Ted S]

Well our server is hosted by one of the larger datacenters so they of coruse have peered 0c-3 connections and all that good stuff. As for our server, it is currently on a 10Meg network and pushes about 1.4Mbit/s so we've got lots of bandwidth room to grow.

As for support, the data pipe could handle far more users than the server could

 

[namelz52]

2.8G may be a little slowly

 

[Ted S]

2.8 slow for a server? Certainly not. The only faster processor we would move to (that's stable and recommended for our OS) would be a dual xeon system.