08-05-2007
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Sheep Worrier
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Portsmouth, UK.
Posts: 4,061
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New Server Hardware Needed!
Biorust's server hardware is a little old and having trouble dealing with all the page requests & downloads that we have grown to serve. Two options exist - we can upgrade the hosted server package via our existing host *OR* we can buy a new server and co-locate it. The second option offers greatly improved connectivity and reduced maintenance costs, but 1U server boxes also suffer the problem of being hideously expensive. If you can help, please offer us a little donation. Even $1 helps! We'll need close to $2000 to reach our dream of a blisteringly fast BioRUST!
To donate, click here - its a paypal form, so you know it'll work just fine... 
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08-06-2007
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n00b
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 852
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Emptied my Paypal account toward the cause. Only $4.78 but every bit counts, right?
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08-06-2007
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The tortured Mind
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: la la Land
Posts: 90
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Pockets emptied as well. I just love this place, the people are never rude. Well almost never anyway.
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08-06-2007
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 843
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Too bad I have no pockets to empty. Dang I hate being so young and worthless. wait... make that workless. Will try to help someday though.
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Last edited by turvas; 08-06-2007 at 01:18 PM.
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08-06-2007
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Sheep Worrier
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Portsmouth, UK.
Posts: 4,061
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Thanks for the donations guys! $40 of the way in.... now only $1960 to go! LOL! I wish 1U hardware wasn't so ludicrously expensive!
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08-06-2007
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El Hippie Viejo
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Florida U.S.A.
Posts: 256
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Hey, 5 bucks US isn't much, isn't that about 8 or 9 bucks UK? I've gotten a lot more than that from this site. Hope you get enough to upgrade.
Peace
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08-06-2007
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User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Gotland.
Posts: 359
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Of course we will give some dollars (£) to Biorust!
Last edited by Kenneth; 08-08-2007 at 06:12 AM.
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08-07-2007
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Rusty Bio-Hazard!
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1,026
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Consider me in... I just PayPal'd $50 US to the cause!
Anybody care to beat me?
Mike.
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08-08-2007
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 843
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Umm... Way to go, Mike. Where I come from 50$ is already considered a small fortune, so I probably wont be the one to beat that. Heck I can't even put in 5$ at my current financial stance. 
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08-09-2007
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Sheep Worrier
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Portsmouth, UK.
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Thanks for the donations peeps! Alas it doesn't look likely that we'll rack up the $2k needed for a truly uber server, but I reckon I can make a nice one for $1100. That will include: 1u Server case, 400W PSU, 2gb ram, Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40GHz CPU, WD Raptor SATA 150GB 16MB 10000RPM HDD, & ASRock 4Core1333-FullHD RS600 motherboard. Its skimping a bit on the HDD I know... but its the best SATA one out there. Sound a nice setup?
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08-09-2007
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Rusty Bio-Hazard!
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1,026
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Sounds swanky!
But for reliability sake do you think it's wise to use the most affordable of 10K drives?
For the same dough you could triple/quadruple your storage with a decent 7200RPM drive with a bit more confidence in it's reliability...
Just my 2cents.. Kudos on the processor! I just bought a new box for myself with the same chip!
Mike.
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08-09-2007
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Sheep Worrier
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Portsmouth, UK.
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Good point, but the raptor is a very quick drive (as fast as many RAID setups by itself), and almost a match for SAS. There's no need for high capacity with Biorust, as we really only punch the 10gb mark. TBH the decision is between a 7200rpm RAID0 array and the raptor for speed... and I've never really trusted RAID0 in an enterprise setting...
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08-10-2007
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Rusty Bio-Hazard!
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1,026
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Wow... only 10GB I would have expected it to be considerable more taxing than that, but if that's the case, I can see your point...
Would RAID1 not be a better way to go then considering the low demand for capacity? RAID1 (mirroring) would give BioRUST faster read times providing multi-threading was enabled... and still support fault recovery...
Mike.
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08-12-2007
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Sheep Worrier
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Portsmouth, UK.
Posts: 4,061
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Very good point actually, I forgot that RAID1 can multi-thread! I'll get two WD RE2's then - they are supposed to be fast and optimized specifically for RAID1, whilst also being pretty cheap.
NB. In other news, someone special to me just donated £300 (UK Sterling) towards the server as an advance birthday prezzie. W00t! Over half way there now with the cost of the server...
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09-09-2007
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PHP Lover
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Zug, Switzerland
Posts: 84
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I just sent in 10$, how about setting up something where people could donate $5 per month on a subscription? I use this on one of my sites, and it is fairly popular.
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