Planned Maintenance: Server Upgrade

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

By the way, I'm just curious, who is your host?

Originally Posted by Ether

From Brandon's original post, it sounds like they are running their own server.

We have a dedicated server through SoftLayer (formerly The Planet).

[David Brinza]

Brandon and crew does the FIRST community a tremendous service. As the program has grown, the capabilities have struggled to keep pace.

Not all of what is required to maintain CD is without cost.

Please show your appreciation and DONATE to CD!

Keep the voice of FIRST strong!!

[Brandon Martus]

Upgrade complete .. hopefully this will keep things afloat for a while.

[MrForbes]

ONE server? what would it take to add more? Looks to me like traffic has exceeded what it can handle several times so far this season. Or is it a bandwidth problem? or both?

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by squirrel

ONE server? what would it take to add more? Looks to me like traffic has exceeded what it can handle several times so far this season. Or is it a bandwidth problem? or both?

I would look into adding redundancy into the mix, though I also don't know what finances are, which could limit the expansion options. Even a simple CDN would go a long way. The RAM should be sufficient, though, if it's just a simple issue of running out of memory.

I'm sure Brandon knows what he's doing. If he needs help, I trust he'll let us know.

[MrForbes]

I'm sure he does....if we can help in any way, please let us know! might be someone has some surplus equipment that could fix some issues?