This server has started playing up a lot. So it's time to take advantage of improved pricing and get ourselves a nice shiny box.

Old server:

16 CPUs
1.5 GB RAM
3000 GB bandwidth coming out of Denver
80 GB SAN disk (this is the slow bit)

New server

?? CPUs
3 GB RAM
3000 GB bandwidth coming out of Brisbane
35 GB SAS SSD (this should be a rip snorter)

When it's all transferred over, I'll let you folks know. Hopefully, the new server will be more reliable than this one.

thanks
Andrew

what about PCIe SSD instead

just one random one I looked up.

http://ocz.com/consumer/revodrive-350-ssd/specifications 

The speed 3 of GB/s for writes and 12 GB/s reads is more than sufficient for us.

I will be transferring things over sooner than later as I experience 504 Gateway timeouts all the time, so I can only imagine you lot do as well.

thanks
Andrew

(Our entire database is 6.1 GB in size, so the new server can read every single thread, post, PM and attachment - all of the forum... twice in one second).

cool!

yeah this forum its regularly timing out or just loads forever (literally) until I refresh it.

I have the timeouts at least couple times a day for the last few years and I have fast internet. You loose your posts a lot of the time as they happen to timeout on submission just to piss you off