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Website now on new server

The main website has finally been moved to the new Linux server I built earlier in the summer, it should be a lot faster now and not get those "Out of Memory" errors that would come up every few months.

Please report any issues you might have with the website since the switch by posting here in this thread.

Note that a few servers IPs have changed

I had to change the IPs of a few servers, look here for the updated server list: FaceWAN Server List

I also updated the forum sections and group page with the new IPs as well.

Scheduled downtime tomorrow for server upgrades

Tomorrow around 1PM EST I will be upgrading the RAM in the main server from 12GB to 24GB, which is it's max. Downtime will probably be about 15-20 minutes while I run needed Windows Updates as well and optimize things a bit.

I will be building out the new Linux webserver in addition and migrating the entire website over the next week, so those annoying "Out of memory" errors every once in a while will be completely gone.

EDIT: The upgrades were done, check my reply to the thread for more info.

A small amount of downtime + server updates soon

Yesterday, around 7:15PM EST until midnight, there was an outage of the entire datacenter while the core router was replaced with a spare. As of now, everything is up and running again, let me know if you have any problems connecting today.

In other news, I am going to be buying another 12GB of RAM for the server to bring it up to 24GB. This is so I can put up more FaceWAN servers and sell more servers as well.

Website back up!

Late last night the web server started acting up and doing some really strange things that made no sense, but the website was still up. There were probably timeouts and random PHP errors being thrown on the website as well from what I see in the logs. An hour after I went to sleep it got stuck on "Windows is shutting down", and when it was rebooted it would not even power back on. Tried a new power supply and that did not do it, so I am assuming the motherboard is fried. I will price out a new motherboard and continue on my plan of installing Linux on the server and moving the web site and database over when it's stable again.

I have spent most of the day building out a virtual server from the VMware cluster at the office, patching windows, doing updates, etc and finally got everything back up and running again in a virtual server. Sorry for the downtime, it was quite unexpected for the motherboard to die out the blue without any warning, but what are you gonna do.

More scheduled group events!

I haven't used this in a while, I'll start using this more to inform people about new stuff going on.

Everyone seemed to like the Gungame party we had on Saturday night, and we got a ton of people, so I'm going to try to make events every weekend for everyone to just join the servers and have some fun! I'm still working on putting up a few other CS:S servers and replacing the old test server that is running the old version of CS:S. We can do events for other games as well like L4D2 or Gmod. Anyone have any ideas for future events?

New TeamSpeak server up!

I have put a TeamSpeak server up for FaceWAN, so come in, bring friends, and have fun! If you don't know what TeamSpeak is, it's a voice chat application, which is useful if you want to talk to your friends while playing a game (or even out of game.)

You can download the TeamSpeak client here:

Here is the server information:

IP: 69.42.215.154:27030

Database down for a few hours

The database server had a bit of an issue overnight, I left it backing up in anticipation to have it replicate to the new server, so stuff like this could be avoided. Well that didn't go so smooth because of one setting I missed, took me a while to reimport the latest backup. I was so tired last night I fell asleep on the floor while the backup was running.

Anyway, everything is all up and running again, sorry for the problems.

Servers back up, outage for 4 hours

There was an attack on the datacenter where I have the servers hosted and it lasted for 4 hours, during that time none of the servers were responding. The attack has subsided and everything is working again. Sorry for the inconvenience, this was a huge attack that effected all servers in the datacenter.

Planning to buy another server

I've been planning to buy another server, and I just went and priced everything out we're going to need for a second server. It's going to run Windows Server 2008 64-bit, because it fixes alot of the problems with Server 2003 and it needs 64-bit to get past the 4GB RAM limit of 32-bit. Everything will be moved over to the new server slowly, keeping this one up, so there is no noticeable downtime. Due to the new kernel in Windows Server 2008, I need to test compatibility with applications the current server uses, and adjust as necessary. With a Core I7 and 6GB of RAM, this server will be able to handle anything we throw at it, hell, it could probably run 40 L4D servers at once. I have listed the specs below. Donations are greatly appreciated and will get this server up and running faster.

Final Build Specs:

Operating System: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise 64-bit
Processor: Core i7 @ 2.66GHz (Quad Core)
Memory: 6GB DDR3 1333
Hard Drives: 2x 640GB 7200 RPM in RAID 1 for Mirroring

Hardware:

MB + CASE:
SUPERMICRO SYS-5016T-TB 1U Barebone Server Intel X58 LGA 1366 Intel Core i7 / Xeon - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816101232
Quantity: x1 = $619.99

PROCESSOR:
Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115202
Quantity: x1 = $279.99

RAM:
CORSAIR XMS3 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145220
Quantity: x1 = $114.99

HARD DRIVES:
Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136319
x2 = $139.98 at $69.99 each

UPDATE: The new server is setup and running, I just need to move things over to it now and set things up again, more updates to come. Refer to this post for more info.

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