MADCAT

I’d like to know how Acurazine works. For starters, what kind of server is running AZ? What OS is on that server? What application is running AZ and what application is used to design and develop it?

I have basic HTML code skills. And I have not learned anything new for 2-3 years. So learning one or two of what makes AZ runs would be helpful.

Yumcha

Hmmmm...Soopa? Astroboy?

Yumchah, who thinks this info might be privy stuff!

Dan Martin

This is our main server:

Whiskers

One of Junkster's rats is able to hack into it.

TSX 'R' US

spooky3ce

WOOOOOW!!! man that is a huge server... is that soopa or astro. next to the server???

wait...

Thats not a server...





anyways... this is all the info you are probably going to get...

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mantis23

MADCAT

Finally, someone who can reply without jokes!

mantis23

ibsiggy

as of november last year

mantis23

for more info

https://acurazine.com/forums/ramblings-12/cl-com-284th-biggest-forum-159207/

Yumcha

So, do you folks host any nice UT2K4 sessions on that?

Dibs on the IP address!

mantis23

no games, just pr0n.

Yumcha

So, that's where the NWS stuff went!

Casper42

What model server are the Quad boxes if I might ask? Dell 4600?

SiGGy

Thanks Matt!
Our current gameplan changed a bit since matt g's quote.

The newer quad xenon processors boxes are all compaq 4U rack servers. (sorry although I even have one sitting on my desk at work I forgot the model number)

The current setup is is:

2 Dell 1650 servers 2.4gz processors 4Gb ram /w Ultra 320 SCSI disks.
Both servers run all of sites they are load balaced by round-robin dns.
Servers have dual port ethernet, they have 2 public facing NICs for internet requests. And 1 private network to handle DB queries.

If you do a "nslookup www.acurazine.com" from a CMD prompt (or whatever) you'll see it returns 2 IP addresses. Basically you keep switching between 2 boxes the entire time you are browse here for load balancing.

Unfortunetly one of the boxes is also running the DB, so it see's a 12-25% load overhead.

Sometime in the next couple of weeks well be adding a dedcated quad processor DB server in. It has 4Gb ram and 4 ultra 160 SCSI disks on a hardware raid controller. Then we'll have 2 frontend servers to handle web requests followed by a private network dedicated DB server to hande DB requests.

In the weeks following that we'll be adding another front end server. So we'll have 3 servers handling internet requests /w one backend DB server on the final setup.

that what you wanted to know? excuse the type-o's I just woke up...

(I have another 4 servers on stanby, well I'm using them for other things at the moment in the same datacenter) Datacenter is on top of South Mountain in Phoenix, AZ. Yup your web requests are going to the top of a mountain It's 100% private /w 2 OC3 (155Mb lines) comming for a total throughput of 310Mb. We use a whopping 3Mb of that, and the line see at max 8-9Mb of use outbound (serving).

I spend a lot of time optimizing the servers so they run fast on what we have. (i.e recompiling apache/php to have the smallest memory footprint as possible) and optimizing it for the boxes we have. Soopa spends a lot of time making the PHP faster by doing all sorts of stuff. Thats how we manage to make this all work.

it's a lot of work, and constant upkeep..

soopa

i just code

SiGGy

yes! on another server. I have them offline at the moment though. Also have a private VOIP server running for chat using an app called "ventrillo".

With enough response I'll start the server back up for that use.

SiGGy

And he's badass at it! Everyone is lucky to have Adam running this place. I don't think this site would be anywhere near what is with anyone else coding/running it. Adam constantly donates a lot of his time/$$ to this place. I'm sure his GF is even sometimes a bit jealous of his dedication.


LOL, nice pic b.t.w

soopa

yeah there might not be anything like AZ without soopa haha

... but without Dave there would be no soopa cuz I'd have to wh0re myself out on the corner to pay for the joint :gheylaugh:

Dan Martin

:gheyhug:

nicholbr

i feel like crying...

it almost feels appropriate to start a soopa/siggy appreciation/hug thread

wstevens

nicholbr

i wasn't even going to respond to you...but at this point i have to.

A person's hypocricy can go only so far...and a person who has a skimpy asian man dressed in pink wearing bunny ears calling another person gay....well...thats unbelievable.

do the world a favor...give some respect to the men/women/robots who run this side show circus for free for the rest of us to enjoy.






oh yeah, and quit bein such a damned n00b

wstevens

Like taste and smell, sarcasm does not appear to translate over the internet.

astro

smiley coming up!

TSX 'R' US

that's what I was thinking..

GreenMonster

MadCat, this was posted on the TL forum several weeks ago, and covers the history of what is acurazine. I've never seen the history part of it in one thread before, but had gathered my understanding about the site in bits and peices. It was nice to see it explained in one thread. Doesn't have alot of the technical stuff, but alot of background.

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...hlight=history

SiGGy

ya thats a great post but it doesn't cover what I posted in this thread though. Which Im going to guess you didn't read. It's a few posts down on the 1st page of this thread.

GreenMonster

I read it Just thought that since the technical stuff had already been covered (in this thread), it might be nice to post a link to some "background" info.

SiGGy

Intox1221

how abt a pic of those servers... jus for kicks...
also how much disk space r we at with all the posts... including the size this whole website occupies...

Casper42

If they are 4U Rack Server and Quad Xeon, they are more than likely the Proliant DL580 G2.
Soit would look like this:


This means they are Quad XEON (Xenon = Light Bulbs, Xeon = CPUs) on a 400/533 FSB
Max 32GB of PC1600 Ram
4 Hot Swap U320 Drive Bays
2 Redundant Power Supplies
6 PCI-X slots

I'm sure I'm not supposed to say anything, but HP will have the 580 G3 out in the next 2 months. 533 (133x4) replaced by a 667 FSB (166x4) and 3.6Ghz Processors on a 90nm chip die.

SiGGy

thanx for clarifying the xeon vs xenon it was a type-o note the "I just woke up so excuse any type-o's in my thread"

No that doesn't' look like that. However that is a 4U server you have pictured.

Similar specs though. Is the exact model that important? It's a quad proc xeon compaq machine /w 4GB ram and 4 ultra 160 SCSI disks on a hardware raid controller.

It's a junker computer I have laying around (10 of them). Which is why I am using it/them...This is it...
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/s...proliant6400R/
4x550mhtz processors
4x18Gb Ultra 160 Disks
4GB ram.
Way overkill for a DB server. Especially since the one were on now barely uses 14% of a 2.4gz processor duing peak hours. Mysqueel supports SMP if compiled too. Should run like a champ.

Casper42

If its beige then its a 580 G1 or a Proliant 6400R

Hey Siggy, find out what speed the processors are inside that beast for me.
Look under the Power Supply towards the middle of the machine. Model/Serial are there. Will either say:
PL6400R XN ### or
DL580R01 X###
That 3 digit number is the speedof the Xeon

And yes its important because I am retiring 3 6400Rs in the next couple months and as long as the main parts of the machine are sent back, they dont count things like RAM, Disks, RAID controllers, etc. Since (I'm assuming) these will be running Linux and not Windows, no need to stop at 4GB of RAM.

SiGGy

550mhtz
I believe 4GB is the max the mobo supports.

View my edited post above

Casper42

Gotcha.

Well let me know if you need any parts. I'm retring 2 Quad 500s and one Quad 550. But I have a ton of spare drives for these things.

PS: I must have missed it before, do you run a hosting company or something? How does one accumulate 10 Quad Xeon boxes?

SiGGy

10 is nothing, we use 300 boxes for just one application somtimes. Mainly sun/dell servers. I don't like the Compaq/HP stuff (kinda why I called it junk) most of what we have left is end of life here. So it goes out for auction, or gets distributed. Our customer base is close to 20 million people, so the apps are scaled real big and distributed to handle the mass ammounts of traffic. Explaining where the large ammounts of hardware I get comes from...

No, I don't run a hosting company even though I do host acurzine.com. It's a special deal I have worked out with another organization/division of the company I work for. I previosuly worked in that divison (over a year ago now) and they still rely on me for support.... So they hook me up This is also why we have a strick NWS policy, the company I work for doesn't tolerate it in the least. So my job would be on the line if it ever became an issue. Anyone who does a traceroute and looks at the reverse dns lookups could figure out which company I work for.

I could put acurazine on sun servers (large ones) but they honestly suck. And working/developing on them sucks too. better/faster/cheaper (yup, all 3) to use intel processors and Linux.

If I had my way we'd be running on a big cluster of SGI boxes however the 4 SGI boxes I have at home stay there!

New job I just started today I'm working with all IBM servers (powerPC) and AIX. One application spread across 12 sites and close to 600 servers.

SiGGy

Will do, because before I know it I'll have given all of thse boxes away or someone else will have snagged them. Might not be a bad thing to keep a few power supplys sitting around. I have plenty of SCA SCSI disks though...