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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #165 - Apr 11^th, 2013 at 3:40pm Is this why I couldn't post an awesome news article this morning?
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #166 - Apr 11^th, 2013 at 3:51pm Yup, but don't worry, I've got Top Men™ on the job. -b0b (...Top. Men.)
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Reply #167 - Jun 13^th, 2014 at 1:32pm

Not that I'm complaining, Bob - it may be just me - I have been having trouble in the past month being able to load the forum. Not sure if you're working on it or whatnot, but just wanted to let you know in case you needed to.

Thanks again for keeping this up and running - I think we can thank this and the past forums that allows us to keep in contact and remain friends after all these years.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #168 - Jun 13^th, 2014 at 2:22pm I haven't had any issues over here, but I access the forum locally 99% of the time. I also pulled it up just now using a cellular modem with a VPN and it came right up. When you have a problem with the forum does it just load slowly, load partially, or not load at all? -b0b (...will dig around.)
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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #170 - Jun 15^th, 2014 at 6:08am You know I had the same problem the other day, but when I tried again a few hours later it was fine so I just chalked it up to a bad connection or internetz woes.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #171 - Jun 16^th, 2014 at 10:54am On a hunch, I went full-bore with some anime torrents and maxed out my VPN connection, just to see if that would impact external access to the forum. At ~25Mbps download, my upload rate is still good and I can get to the forum instantly from a cellular connection. I'll keep digging, thanks guys! -b0b (...boggles.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #172 - Nov 24^th, 2014 at 5:33pm The forum will be going down repeatedly tonight while I complete upgrade VMware on the box running the web server. Sorry for the short notice!
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Reply #173 - Nov 26^th, 2014 at 12:59pm

I'm doing some hardware upgrades this week on the VMware server that runs the web forum, so there will be some limited downtime today and Friday/Saturday. Here are the highlights:

Installing additional RAM, bringing the server from 96GB to 138GB.
Installing a new Adaptec 71605Q RAID adapter, five more hard drives, and (temporarily) a 128GB SSD for flash acceleration. My goal is to use three 512GB or 1TB SSDs for flash acceleration down the road, but I've got the 128GB drive laying around and may as well put it to use now! The new adapter also has twice the cache (1GB instead of 512MB) compared to the existing adapter.
Installing a dual-port 10Gb fiber network card to replace the existing 4-port 1Gb network card. Only one of the two 10Gb ports will be connected right off the bat until I can afford to buy another Cisco switch with more 10Gb ports. They are still incredibly expensive on eBay.

I'm also hoping to upgrade the CPUs in the server in February/March. The server is currently running two Xeon X5620s with four 2.4GHz cores. I'd like to swap them out for two Xeon X5690s with six 3.46GHz cores, bumping overall CPU power from 19.2GHz to 41.04GHz. That should help this beast last a few more years.

-b0b
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #174 - Dec 2^nd, 2014 at 9:56am The forum will be going down for a few hours today (assuming my SAS cables arrive) so I can install the new RAID adapter and reinstall the VMware OS. -b0b (...yay for flash acceleration!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #175 - Dec 3^rd, 2014 at 6:10pm The forum is back up for now. The 10Gb network cards will be here Thursday or Friday, so there will be another 30-60 minutes of downtime while I get that configured. -b0b (...weee!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #177 - Jul 14^th, 2015 at 8:54am Something caused the forum index to blow up, so the index wasn't showing any posts. I blew away the index and rebuilt it. Let me know if anything looks shady. -b0b (...fun!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #178 - Nov 4^th, 2015 at 3:06pm I've been implementing some stronger crypto on the network, so apologies for any interruptions to the website or FTP. I'm done, so I don't expect any further interruptions. Also, I upgraded my Internet connection from 27x7Mbps to 75x15Mbps. Hopefully that will help with some of the outbound bandwidth issues. -b0b (...AES baybee!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #179 - Jan 21^st, 2016 at 2:45pm TEST
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