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Publish date:

   05/31/03 @748

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    Arno

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Welcome to the new server!


Recently GFXartist made a server switch, our old plan where we had 2 servers serving up the site came back to haunt us when there was too much traffic between the servers. When you requested a page on GFXartist sully would do a request to Lilo asking the database whats on the page, Lilo would then sent back that information and sully compiled the entire page to deliver to you. Unfortunately that doubled our total bandwidth usage, although the servers were right next to eachother we had to pay for that internal traffic..... so that plan miserably failed.

We had to think of something else to be able to serve the evergrowing number of page requests.... So now we're here to present to you the Incredible Milo. Milo is our latest and only server (although its twice the cost). Milo is a Dual Xeon 2.0 Ghz Hyperthreading server, 1GB Ram and packed with two 73 GB 10,000 RPM SCSI Drives. We hope that Milo will be more than enough for now and the (near) future. So happy GFX surfing.

Colby and I will still be working on the server to optimize performance, so you might run into some errors now and then the upcoming week.

For now, signing off.
Cheers,
Colby and Arno

 
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Avatar cjd

 06/01/03 @217

Go Milo! Great news. :)
 
Avatar HungerArtist

 06/01/03 @234

yes..it sounds like milo is very uber.
 
Avatar HungerArtist

 06/01/03 @237

error: my pages are loading without any pictures!

is this just me?
 
Avatar cjd

 06/01/03 @273

No, it's happening to me too. Just the new server I suspect. :)
 
HenceMyName

 06/01/03 @306

Da pictures are teh down...

fix it :)
 
Avatar Antipop

 06/01/03 @455

no pics on my screen either :(
 
Avatar Martin

 06/01/03 @472

Something seems to be wrong with images.gfxartist.com, it's there but the permissions are wrong. I'll get on it as soon as arno's ass is out of bed and behind his screen.
 
Avatar Arno

 06/01/03 @493

As I said you will sometimes see some errors as we're still working on the new server, though this was an unexpected error it should all be fixed now. cheerio
 
Avatar HungerArtist

 06/01/03 @627

yeah, its working!
 
crystl

 06/01/03 @678

omg, i'm naming my son, Milo. :|
 
cranial-bore

 06/29/03 @472

Thats nasty that you had to pay for internal bandwidth ! You'd think a local network would be excluded from external bandwidth costs, but obviously not.
 
dncer

 01/27/09 @164

 
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