Quote from: theymos on February 21, 2013, 09:00:34 PM

Quote from: wtfvanity on February 21, 2013, 03:56:25 PM

And when you say provided by, are they paying for the server or are we using forum funds to pay them for the server?

They're paying for it in exchange for some advertising.

That's what I wanted to know. I saw the advertising at the bottom and was curious if that was somehow part of the arrangement. Does Privateinternet manage the server or did they hand over the reigns to the dedicated server?

Quote from: theymos on February 21, 2013, 09:32:00 PM

Before:
- Core 2 Duo T7700 @ 2.4GHz
- 4 GB memory
- Slow hard drive

After:
- Xeon E31240 @ 3.30GHz
- 16 GB memory
- 2 SSDs in RAID 1

I think this'll be enough for a while.

Quote from: cedivad on February 21, 2013, 09:41:59 PM

I bet whatever you want that the bottleneck was the hard disk Wink

Absolutely. 4 GB of ram is plenty to host a forum. The reads and writes are what kill it. The only thing better than SSDs in Raid 1 would be SSDs in Raid 1+0