Releaselog

New server installed

Posted on 11.08.2009 at 23:50 in Site news by Martin

Hey everyone, after 2 days of various attempts to tweak our server setup there wasn’t anything else that could help the situation than adding extra hardware. Therefore, I finished installing a brand new server, which should make RLSLOG finally faster for everyone. The speed of our site was lately quite slow and there were also numerous downtimes – all of this should be history now.

For hardware geeks, I add details of new server:

  • Quad Core Xeon X3320, 2.5GHz, 2×3MB, 1333FSB
  • 4 GB RAM, 667 MHz
  • 500 GB SATA HDD

Let’s hope everything will be much more smooth now. In case some problems appear, please post them in comments and I will look into them. Have fun!

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Comments (161)

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  1. CTO_7
    August 11th, 2009 | 23:49

    Great that downtime was really starting to get annoying now its much faster also

  2. dab
    August 11th, 2009 | 23:51

    Kudos :)

  3. cv
    August 11th, 2009 | 23:52

    Yeah, you guys rock!

  4. 1uk3
    August 11th, 2009 | 23:52

    Great news! I've been having lots of problems visiting this site lately – seems quick again now. :)

  5. Johney666
    August 11th, 2009 | 23:53

    Everything's fine so far… :D

  6. mykal
    August 11th, 2009 | 23:53

    nice upgrade

  7. jake
    August 11th, 2009 | 23:53

    good job guys, the site feels a lot more stable and fresh!

  8. yuriythebest
    August 11th, 2009 | 23:54

    very good news! yeah I've also witnessed this downtime you speak of – glad to know you fixed it :)

  9. Ike
    August 11th, 2009 | 23:54

    Awesome, already started to worry 'bout this site. Keep on rocking!

  10. manu
    August 11th, 2009 | 23:54

    ^Thanks so much for your hard work..

    Keep it up…

    You`re the best :)

  11. Dest
    August 11th, 2009 | 23:54

    well it took 15sec just to load the comments of this thread:\

  12. Praise Jesus
    August 11th, 2009 | 23:55

    All other sites similar to this one, are far inferior to this one, except when it comes to downtime. If those problems truly are a thing of the past, this will be my Home page.

  13. EarlZ
    August 11th, 2009 | 23:56

    I dont know much about webservers but would having a very high performing CPU help speed things up, say for example that quadcore vs a dualcore 2.5Ghz.. I wonder whats the peak CPU usage for release log.

  14. Jeroenert
    August 11th, 2009 | 23:56

    Thanks Martin, hope this will solve everything. The site is after three years still okay but I have to say: I'd love to see some better and smarter authors with a little higher level and some serious info.

  15. Dj-KOE
    August 11th, 2009 | 23:56

    coool guys :D :D

    rlslog rullles :) :)

    btw …I'm a very big fan of this site …. hope it to be #1 website at all :D :D

    nice work martin :)

  16. MDMA
    August 11th, 2009 | 23:58

    great!!!

    ;)

  17. MrG
    August 11th, 2009 | 23:58

    "Error establishing a database connection"

    on next page

  18. 1uk3
    August 11th, 2009 | 23:59

    Okay, scrub my comment @2 – I'm having issues as normal – reset connection etc and then getting blank pages. :(

  19. Diggler
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:02

    @Dest
    Might help if you stopped using the 24kb modem :-)

    Lets hope downtime is a thing of the past. Good job!

  20. Tyler Durden
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:02

    Congratz guys! The problem's were so frequent, now the site is fixed! Keep up the great work!

  21. GazmoX
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:05

    Until the next time!

  22. FamilyGuy
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:05

    About time but for comparison sake could someone post the specs of the previous sever that was being used?

  23. lemaitre
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:05

    Well done but 500 GO will be enough ?? :)

  24. hardware
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:07

    congrats on the upgrade, really hope it helps smooth things out around here and cuts back on the downtime. but judging by the new parts, the old server must have been a dinosaur because those parts you listed are average desktop components at best. i dont know how much traffic rlslog gets but if thats all it takes to handle the traffic then you guys are lucky

  25. Johney666
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:07

    Why aren't my comments appearing (attempt 6)? :(

  26. WTH
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:08

    Took more than 15 secs to load a webpage of RLSLOG. You need to tweak more.

  27. DR. MUNRO
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:08

    The new site seems to be running great. Rlslog used to crash a lot. Probably because of all the traffic — which just goes to prove how popular you guys are. I'm hooked, keep it up.

    Ciao,
    Doc Munro

  28. 686
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:10

    Now all you need to do is add a new style / theme.

  29. uptown
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:10

    slower than ever

  30. Johney666
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:10

    So far so good! :D

  31. muzhik
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:10

    about time… from all the money you guys made…

    lol…

    –===– thx for the upgrade, much quicker now

  32. lol
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:11

    AWESOME!

    I thought my internet connection was the problem.

  33. gilbeg
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:12

    We all should donate so that you guys can put at least 8Gb of RAM. 4Gb is too small for a quad core Xeon.

  34. g1pster
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:13

    awesooe thank god

  35. Johney666
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:14

    And I was thinking Franz Ferdinand was behind it again! :lol:

  36. Anon6666
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:16

    That's great to hear!

  37. Belkamaniac
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:18

    Nice! ;)

  38. Dizzle
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:18

    much much better already

  39. Orevin
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:22

    Well, site isn't down, which is good, but load times are still high…

  40. Edeon
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:23

    Its like .. Eve blue color in tha background is now more blue. Lol.

    Nice job. Thank you.

  41. K
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:23

    gratz

  42. essequemodeia
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:24

    Awesome! Thanks again.

  43. Daizzamnnnnnnnnnn
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:24

    Damn this site used to crash alot hopefully thing of the past how much traffic this site gets a day last time i heard i think it was around 300,000 unique visitors a day is that number still stands

  44. nice
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:24

    nice new setup

  45. JJ
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:25

    All good, no probs here. Well done!
    Anyone who says it's slow now must need a hardware upgrade themselves.

  46. Brutos
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:26

    Since this is a Wordpress Installation, did you guys do the obvious PHP tweaks, like installing a bytecode cache. Like APC anda dding a forward proxy to Apache because apache is rather slow on its own. Adding a Ngix to spoon feed Apache does real wonders, requests per second that the blog can handle could have a nice factor before them. I guess you did the real obvious stuff as adding a wordpress cache plugin already.

  47. DrVince
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:27

    What we need is a picture of this server naked!

  48. SpliffDonkey
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:27

    The update does not seem to have made any differance here in the UK.

    All the issues I have experienced with Rlslog recently are still there. Pages loading very slowly, sometimes needing 3 or 4 refreshes to bring up the page.

    If things improve over the next few days I will update this thread but for now, as mentioned above, things are just as bad has they have been.

  49. User
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:27

    hopefully fully working again, finally

  50. sdfgdfg
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:29

    Still slow as a dog…

    As if you cannot afford to get this server hosted on a cloud based system… would never have downtime and resources could be upped quite a lot. Those server specs are pathetic given the number of visitors…

  51. Em
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:30

    Finally!

    BTW? No RAID? 1 can practically double the reading speed.
    I hope that X3320 is worth its money!

  52. saul
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:32

    so RLSlog is getting a lot of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ then…

  53. ddl
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:32

    @50,

    Don't take this the wrong way but, are you frickin kidding?!

  54. Fodds
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:32

    I was wondering if 500Gb would be enough also. Though you are providing links to downloads rather than the downloads themselves. So 500Gb should be plenty.

    Thank you for all your hardwork guys :)

  55. dugan
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:33

    site seems a lot faster.

    kthx.

  56. bdv
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:33

    Great ! Thanks guys !
    i was wondering what was happening :)

  57. DarkChild
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:34

    Still pretty slow tho' IMHO. Guess its back to some more tweaking =P

  58. sysadmin
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:36

    martin,

    i'm a sysadmin for a fortune 500, what you need is also make sure you are connected on a fast port, in order to support all incoming simultaneous connections and send fast replies. it's not computing power that you need.

    you can ask for 100mps port but the best would be to ask for 1000MPS port. should be 10 bux more or something, hosts usually give it free

    it WILL make a HUGE difference!!!

  59. Venomhed
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:37

    Still sluggish to me with each page taking 10-30 seconds to load. I don't think your problem was the hardware, sounds like the actual website is having problems or the speed of the host, but I wouldn't know as I am not on your end.

    You aren't running eBay so your specs are fine if not overkill for this website. I would look elsewhere for the problem.

  60. Joe
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:38

    I bet he is using a placebo against us and didn't actually do an upgrade. :P

    J/k lol

  61. nice
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:42

    guys does it not occur to you that it just may be that you have a crap internet connection or may be dling something at the time which is slowing it down? Because i live in the UK and it's loading in less than a second. i'm on a 20MB line and RLSLOG is loading much faster than before, kudos to you guys for all your hard work :)

  62. not you
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:42

    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) DVDSCR.XviD-DoNE
    is out

  63. Pr00F
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:44

    very nice guys, site is alot faster thanks

  64. Intr0
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:44

    Seems much nippier from the UK now too cheers!

  65. Bad Lama
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:44

    You ROCK!

    Gratitude dude!!!

  66. not you
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:45

    some forums claiming it's fake now…

  67. AnaloG
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:47

    thank effing god…

  68. Guess Whot!!
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:49

    awesome!! great!!!

  69. nebula
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:52

    Shouldn't you have more RAM in a web server ?

  70. dood
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:52

    it still timeout most of times :(
    upgrade didnt help much.

  71. Vampyre
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:54

    wowawww its faster now cool!!!!!!! lets hope no more downs this time!!! :P

  72. CptPron
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:56

    Nice!

  73. ben
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:56

    still slow as anything for me

  74. flipflop
    August 12th, 2009 | 00:59

    Great work guys no issues…. yet.

    I have a question though.
    Running Firefox I occasionally get a pop up saying " do you want to move from this site" then it takes me to some chinese sex museum.
    Only happens when I'm on your site. Is this an issue?
    I've ran various scans but I think I'm clean.

    Actually, come to think of it, no browser hijacks today.

  75. richard
    August 12th, 2009 | 01:04

    YEAH!!!!

  76. gv
    August 12th, 2009 | 01:06

    Seems faster. 500GB is fine considering most of what is hosted is text anyway.

  77. sinister
    August 12th, 2009 | 01:06

    Loading much quicker (on a 10MB line) here in Melbourne, AUSTRALIA.

  78. Corbi
    August 12th, 2009 | 01:06

    Great, really freaking fast

    Now if you can just get rid of the stupid pop up that asks if i want to leave the page or not and rlslog will be perfect :)

  79. Ruff McGruff
    August 12th, 2009 | 01:08

    its always a great day when u finally get a new server. and yes can you please get rid of that popup that asks to leave the site? it drives my win7 firefox nuts at times

  80. A.Bundy
    August 12th, 2009 | 01:12

    awesome specs. just built my new rig too. 3.2ghz phenomII 955BE overclocked to 3.8ghz, 1600mhz CL5 8gb ram, 3 320gb hdd's in raid0. yeah, this aint no dell wannabe. i'm ready to roll!

  81. Adriano
    August 12th, 2009 | 01:13

    RlZ! :D

  82. Vampyre
    August 12th, 2009 | 01:14

    correction..!!! to refresh the page its faster but to go to other page sometimes it slows a little yet!!! :P

  83. Network Admin
    August 12th, 2009 | 01:14

    Why aren't you running a RAID configuration for you HDD? You really should consider switching to it because your site is just gonna get dog ass slow again in a week or two.

  84. Get rid of popups
    August 12th, 2009 | 01:18

    I have Firefox with NoScript and AdBlockPlus and I don't see any ads or popups on this site or any site for that matter. You guys should really stop using IE8 or whatever you might be using and get FF with AdBlockPlus at the very least. Why look at ads when you don't have to?

  85. Ike
    August 12th, 2009 | 01:21

    @58
    For a sysadmin for a fortune500 company you sure do sound like an idiot. You're lucky you don't work for me… i'd fire you for being stupid.

  86. Hmmmm
    August 12th, 2009 | 01:25

    YAY FINALLY lol I couldn't get on this site for like 2 days.

  87. evk
    August 12th, 2009 | 01:26

    Nice guys, thanks and keep up the good work

    ¿Is there a way to doate to the cause?

    regards,

  88. emibel
    August 12th, 2009 | 01:28

    Well, for me here in Adelaide, Australia, it's a bit up and down. With no other traffic on my line, sometimes it takes 30 seconds or more to respond, sometimes only 2 or 3. Still at least it's up and not refusing connections, as it was most of yesterday.

    And the first time I tried to post this, it sat on "please wait" for several minutes, and didn't post it.

  89. tuna
    August 12th, 2009 | 02:27

    do you tested against DDOS … maybe it's because of that you got the downtimes

  90. Wiskyeye
    August 12th, 2009 | 08:12

    I think there is still a few bugs but, this answers most of the ?'s. Nice to hear it was that simple and not something more serious.

  91. Neo
    August 12th, 2009 | 08:28

    Still I get blank pages :(

  92. Routier
    August 12th, 2009 | 08:31

    6MB line here in Belgium. Pages and images load very quickly but when I click on "next page" it sometimes takes between 15 – 40 sec to load the next page. Sometimes I even get a blank page and have to refresh.

  93. Routier
    August 12th, 2009 | 08:35

    Even my (92) post took me like 20sec to post…
    BTW is this address normal: http://www.rlslog.net/page/9/?error=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.energy-serv.ro%2Fmambots%2Fid.txt%3F%3F

  94. Chromus
    August 12th, 2009 | 08:43

    Getting same issues as posted in 93

    4MB in Perth Australia.

    Martin, wouldnt a Raid array be a better idea than a single 500GB drive?

    All that load on a single SATA drive is going to lead to reliability issues and may be the cause of the current bottlenecking.

  95. dog
    August 12th, 2009 | 08:44

    oh thanks its up again!.
    but then 1TB hd wont be that expensive would it, and also why 667 instead of 800 or higher? ECC module? 667 is bloody slow…

  96. X
    August 12th, 2009 | 09:23

    There is a lot to be said about improving performance for a server……..and 667 vs 800 isn't what's important.
    Like most things in life, it's all a question of money and knowledge……..and since we don't pay s*** to visit the site, it will be hard to ask for the perfect solution :)
    You have RAID issues…….server config…….link……database tweaks……code tweaks…..you could use NLB or Round Robin…..hell, we could be here all day!

    Good work, and keep it up guys!

  97. JCinSpain
    August 12th, 2009 | 09:24

    The comments took 30 seconds to load, and only after second attempt because the first one timed out. The site is slow and many times it times out or not available. I check the site for posts five to six times every day and I must say that it has got worse. I am truly disappointed with all these new problems.
    I have a 20MB connection and of all the sites that I visit, yours has really gone down in speed.
    WHATS UP CHAPS, you used to be the best.
    Come one, I believe in you guys to get there again.
    Saludo de espana.

  98. Falcon69
    August 12th, 2009 | 09:31

    D: Keep it Rolling Guys D:

    :mrgreen: You ROCK :mrgreen:

    :roll: And One Day You Will See This Site In The Top 10 Blog site ;) If not The # 1st

  99. goph
    August 12th, 2009 | 09:49

    Server is runnin great loading is almost instant! Don't listen to these fools sayin 15 secs to load this page! took me almost less than a second! :P

  100. xdxita
    August 12th, 2009 | 09:51

    please server naked picture!
    for geeks!

    Great job
    Thanks for all!

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