New RackShack server!!!
 

Well myself and [name]NTLDR[/name] went and bought a RackShack server today, and we are moving our sites to it shortly!:)

Specs:

Pentium 4 2.4GHz
1GB RAM
80GB HDD
700GB Bandwidth
RedHatLinux 7.3

PHP 4.3.2 with Zend Optimiser
MySQL 4.0.13

What do you all think?:D

Satan

w00t, time to clear out my old crappy dedicated box :D

w00t, time to trash your old crappy dedicated box;):p

Satan

Too bad I couldn't chip in and get some of the space, broke though :(

[high]* assassingod re-opens prositution business
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:D

We can sort something out for you mr s;):)

Satan

i wish i could move my site to a dedicated box but I have even less money....

/me goes couch diving

Congrats! :D This means I get to help trash the old one, right? :p

:D

I have the exact same server :).

I'll be getting a second server soon, hopefully a Xeon :).

Congradulations on the move to dedicated paradise, where you have full control and no webhost :cool:

Yeh - Webhosts suck:p

Good stuff N9ne;)

@Rose - Well - I'm sure we can all join in the fun:p

@Oricon - Do like we did, share the cost:)

Satan

Feh, who would share with me..... wait anyone up for trying this sharing thing?

You should know how to contact me :)

[high]* Dan points profile and irc[/high]

Lots of people are willing to share, as both me and lee are benefitting from this:)

Satan

YAY now you can join me in trying to update PHP rpms and WGET in files....

Kool dude ;)

So which is better for reselling as hosting services?

Ensim, Plesk, Ensim Pro, or cPanel ?

I have an RS box too - Dual Xeon 2 Gb RAM 2x73Gb HDD - it's great. See you around at the RS forums. :)

Ensim Pro or Cpanel. Cpanel is good for newbie webmasters as it's so simple and automated, but it's a bit buggier. But I like it. The beauty of Cpanel are it's automated scripts, and automatic updates.

For example, you can upgrade Apache, PHP and add Apache or PHP modules using:

/scripts/easyapache

I would be interested in splitting a rackshack setup. anyone else looking?

Yeh I saw your post in the "Need a forum" topic, and your Disclaimer;)

Me and [name]NTLDR[/name] are Zion there:)

We currently have a plesk panel (the only one available at ordering), but we won't actually use it much - We don't really need it;)

We were looking at one of those, and had [name]assassingod[/name] been able to afford it, we would have gotten between the three of us:)

Satan

Ill probbly get one as soon as I have the cash, for now ill window shop ;).

[high]* Brad wants one of their Xeon servers badly[/high]

sounds like a good idea, hopefully my board will expand to such a level that i need to set one up myself

/me dreams of 5000+ members

Nice server. :)

Thanks Tony:)

It should be fine and more than enough for us;):)

Satan

I just moved over to a Dual Xeon Box.. Same setup as Erwin's.
I was at Nocster for the last 6 months on a dedicated PIV 2.0 with 512mb Ram and 300 gigs bandwidth. I wasn't real happy with the latency/lag issues that started happening about 3 months into using them. At first they were great but the network errors and lag never seemed to die. At the same time my forums were growing like a weed and it all added up to be an aggrevating situation. Before that I had another dedicated at RS for about a year. I moved to Nocster from RS because I really wanted to have cPanel again. After they started offering it with the Dual Xeon SCSI box's, I couldn't pass it up. There is nothing I hate more than lag in my forums.
With this new dedicated Xeon, they FLY.. I can have over 240 people on at one time on one community, 60 on another and it doesn't so much as flinch! Loads never exceed .5 during this..
Puts a big smile on my face, though more of a dent in my wallet than I like.
I've got plenty of room if anyone needs really fast community hosting. I just have the box for my forums and a few friends sites, and might help out a few others if needed.

I've been with RS for a year now, its been great. Just ordered a 512MB upgrade for my server. I might order another server from them just because they have a special going on, $1 setup fee. :)

Yup, with 1200 Gb bandwidth per month... I can't use it all... :)

LOL, I am trying but have a long way to go. I was starting to worry about one of my forums 100+ gig's a month bandwidth habit (and watching it get larger by the month) but it should be covered for a good while now.
I can also toss the videos online for friends and family to download.

Don't dream of 5000+ members just yet, bandwidth goes sky high :(

I wish I could develop a site big enough in need for a 'Type-Erwin' Server. I have no community actually but I hope the one I help for will grow :( It only has 2 members, and Im NOT one of them.

Been running on a RS dedicated server for about 2 months now, and couldn't be happier. :) Good to see so many fellow members here as part of the club!

-Jason

I need another server now :(

I have a P4 2.4GHz with 1GB RAM and my server load is over 100% during half of the day. It's sad :(

If you have a busy site, check to see if your disk is swapping a lot. If so, upgrade to 2 GB RAM. It will help a lot.

How do I check that?

Edit: I also just found out that the maximum RAM I can have on my P4 at RS is 1.5GB so I will only be able to add 512MB of RAM.

Log into SSH, and run:

top

in the command line.

Keep it running. If the swap size keeps changing when your server is busy, it's time to upgrade your RAM.

Well I was looking at 'top' yesterday for several hours when I had 180 online, and my conclusion:

Hardly any 'swap' is being used.

However: Sometimes, my RAM usage is EXTREMELY high. I have 1024MB RAM and there's only 70MB free right now (it's 2pm in UK)

Also, my server load seems to be above 0.8 for most of the day now, it's above 2 at peak times.

There really aren't many sites on my server to be honest. I don't know what's going on. I have 2 sites that are just using PHP (no MySQL) but are quite popular (not THAT popular) and then there's my forums; about 180 online at peak times.

Pentium 4 2.4Ghz
1GB RAM
cPanel 7.2.1 S85

That's one powerful server and handling those 3 sites should be no trouble yet it is trouble and for what reason I do not know. Server load is constantly high, RAM usage is sometimes very low, even at peak times, but sometimes its very very high...

help :(

N9ne are you using MySQL 3.x? If so I would recommend that you upgrade to MySQL 4.x and make sure you enable query caching.

I've been using MySQL 4.0.12/4.0.13 for a few months now :)

Have you enabled Queer catching? Sorry Query caching;):p

:)

Satan

the server is fast :), well at least darkblazes is a lot faster now :)
psst..this is Teapot, forgot my pass/email account for that name on here lol

Yo Tea of the Pot:p

Everyone - This is a long time friend / mod of mine from DarkBlazes - He has his 0wn vB3 now (I like to think he enjoys DarkBlazes enough to inspire his purchase of this fine product):p

Satan

yess....that was it :)

Im sure it was:p

Satan