Hello everyonebr /br /In the past, we have always made the community aware of the technologies being employed to power the phpBB project. In keeping with that tradition, I would like to take a moment to describe some recent br /improvements to the stability and speed of a href="http://www.phpBB.com" class="postlink"www.phpBB.com/a and related websites (*.phpBB.com).br /br /Early last year, we began the process of retiring a href="http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14t=216737" class="postlink"Yavin/a, the aging server used to power all of phpBB.com for the better part of 5 years. Due to increasing ambitions and desire for stability, we opted for two identical state of the art servers ? later named a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_%28moon%29" class="postlink"Phobos/a and a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deimos_%28moon%29" class="postlink"Deimos/a ? as replacements. The specifications for span style="font-style: italic"each/span of these these system is as follows:br /br /dl class="codebox"dtCode: a href="#" onclick="selectCode(this); return false;"Select all/a/dtddcode2X? ?Quad Core Intel? Xeon? L5430, 2X6MB Cache, 2.6GHz, 1333MHz FSBbr /2X? ?4GB 667MHz Memorybr /4X? ?73GB 15K RPM Serial-Attach SCSI 3Gbps 2.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive? ?br /br /24X IDE CD-RW/DVD ROM Drive for PowerEdge Servers, All OSbr /PERC6i SAS RAID Controller, 2x4 Connectors, Int, PCIe, 256MB Cache (SAS/SATA RAID 5, PERC 6/i)br /Intel PRO 1000PT 1GbE Dual Port NIC, PCIe-4br /Dell Remote Access Card, 5th Generation for PowerEdge Remote Managementbr /Rack Chassis w/Sliding Rapid/Versa Rails and Cable Management Arm,Universalbr /3Yr BASIC SUPPORT: 5x10 HW-Only, 5x10 NBD Onsitebr /Redundant Power Supply with Dual Cords (NEMA 5-15P to C14, 15 amp, wall plug, 3 meter)br /Riser with 2 PCI-X Slots (3 Volts)/code/dd/dlbr /Phobos is currently primarily being used to power a href="http://www.phpBB.com" class="postlink"www.phpBB.com/a, while Deimos holds virtual machines for a href="http://area51.phpBB.com" class="postlink"area51.phpBB.com/a, a href="http://code.phpBB.com" class="postlink"code.phpBB.com/a, a href="http://wiki.phpBB.com" class="postlink"wiki.phpBB.com/a, a href="http://tracker.phpBB.com" class="postlink"tracker.phpBB.com/a, a href="http://blog.phpBB.com" class="postlink"blog.phpBB.com/a, mailing, etc.br /br /?????----br /br /As most of you are already aware, the a href="http://osuosl.org/" class="postlink"Oregon State University Open Source Lab/a has been providing hosting and operation services to the phpBB project a href="http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14t=371690" class="postlink"since March 2006/a. In order to supplement our own servers, OSUOSL has been hosting the a href="http://www.phpBB.com" class="postlink"www.phpBB.com/a database on their shared infrastructure.br /br /Recently, the fine folks at a href="http://www.schoonerinfotech.com/products/mysql_appliance" class="postlink"Schooner Information Technology/a made a generous hardware donation to OSUOSL which has allowed them to move our database to a considerably better machine. As of this time yesterday, a href="http://www.phpBB.com" class="postlink"www.phpBB.com/a's database has been running on the following system:br /br /dl class="codebox"dtCode: a href="#" onclick="selectCode(this); return false;"Select all/a/dtddcode2X? ?Quad-core Intel Xeon 5500 ?Nehalem? Series Processors - 8 MB cache (max)br /64GB 1333MHz, fully buffered, DDR-3 RDIMM memorybr /4X? ?SATA HDDs - OSbr /8X? ?SATA 64GB Intel X25-e solid state drives (512GB total) - Data/code/dd/dlbr /This is the reason for the noticeable speed improvement throughout the site; it is particularly apparent in the a href="http://tracker.phpbb.com/" class="postlink"issues trackers/a.br /br /We would like to thank a href="http://www.schoonerinfotech.com/products/mysql_appliance" class="postlink"Schooner Information Technology/a for their donation and a href="http://osuosl.org/" class="postlink"OSUOSL/a for their continued support.br /br /- The phpBB Teambr /br /br /-----br /br /Please discuss this announcement in the a href="http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=64t=2090393" class="postlink"discussion topic/a.

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