We're getting a new home

My host apparently has been planning this for a few years now. They are calling it "cloud hosting", basically in addition to what resources I have I'll have scalable resources as they are available. To simplify the explanation suppose the server I'm on is running a lot of tasks and I've reached the limit of the resources I'm guaranteed. The next door neighbors server is idling along, those resources they are not using can be utilized by me.

They tell me downtime should be 5 minutes and I'm not sure when this will happen.

Actual picture of our new home:

Thanks for keeping us up & running!

They have been planning on upgrading our server ever since fred brought all his friends here, been getting bury around here!

Pic of our previous home

Wow Richard did you set that all up? Looks great. My network guy at work has this saying, if it looks like *censored* damnit it will treat you like *censored*. Pain in the arse but we are upgradin all our old VME's with nice Cat5 cable and stratix switches. what a world of difference.

anthony7812 wrote:Wow Richard did you set that all up?

There is millions of dollars of equipment there. We only occupy a very, very small part of it. I don't own, I rent.

Besides, it's in Atalanta.

Richard S. wrote:

anthony7812 wrote:Wow Richard did you set that all up?

There is millions of dollars of equipment there. We only occupy a very, very small part of it. I don't own, I rent.

Besides, it's in Atalanta.

Ill just take what they paid for all the cabinets and mounting hardware,

If it were my money I'm sitting in the Bahamas sipping pina coladas served by babes in skimp bikinis.

Gotta love them thar umbrella drinks--& half naked beach babes. Thanx for the update Richard.

Richard S. wrote:If it were my money I'm sitting in the Bahamas sipping pina coladas served by babes in skimp bikinis.

LOL.... If our growth keeps up like this it wont be long! I see Webby sailing a fine yacht in Newport Harbor everyday and it sure looks like Pina Colada he's holding (could be a Daiquiri though)

Richard S. wrote:If it were my money I'm sitting in the Bahamas sipping pina coladas served by babes in skimp bikinis.

You saying you wouldn't buy an articlulating body coal truck and be back in the saddle?

Your a Virtual Machine now, prolly a Guest running on VMware.

009to090 wrote:Your a Virtual Machine now, prolly a Guest running on VMware.

I don't have a dedicated server, it's VPS so I'm already running on a virtual server. This expands that across multiple machines. For example how many times have you heard the story of a site going viral and it goes down? If your the host you really have no choice but pulling the plug on site like that because it's disrupting every one else on that server. That can't or shouldn't happen under this system. I'll even be able to scale stuff up for short periods if I wanted too, for example when Coalcast comes back if I don't have enough bandwidth for it I can scale it up for the short period of time I need it.

As it is right now I need a plan that is going to meet my needs during peak traffic, it's not very efficient for either me or the host because most of the time you have hardware sitting around not being utilized.

Sounds good!! Looks good! On my mustang forums that I run, we have had to upgrade at least 3-4 times over the years due to the same reasons....Good luck!

For crying out loud ! can't we ever stay on topic, now back to half naked beach babes !