Dammit, these servers have been teasing me for too long, the voices keep telling me to buy one now Since I've got a pay rise due in the next few months I might get one

Anyway, the p2800 (default config + cpanel - they should throw in a control panel for free on these) - should handle 3 vBulletins with 20-50 co-current users each, 2 dynamic websites (about 1million hits /month), a lot of static content (about 1 request per second), and a bit of dynamic image creation without exploding, right?

And will it be in dllstx4, or can I get one in dllstx2?

sounds like its going to have to work for its rent

I dont think you could get on in X2 anymore... you could ask though?

Well a celery 2.4 256MB ram is handling the static content at 1 request every 2 seconds and the 2 dynamic sites without any problems.

So the plan is in a couple of months, when traffic increases, get the TC server, and rent a bit of space out for some friends forums, then ditch the celery.

The dynamic image creating thing (a winamp song tracking script - about 500 users) is currently on a VDS at the moment which I'll want to move to the TCS.

My gaming Community picked up a P2800S. It's really nice. I love it. They had some decent deal going on or something. It's worth it. Our pitiful 2.4 celery looks small in comparison but it's still a trooper. (It's our Email, DNS, Web Server)

They have free setup on the p2800S at the moment, hopefully when I need to order they'll have a free cpanel or free setup offer on the standard p2800 (are you listening person incharge of special offers? )

I'm just the network overlord. I don't deal with ordering. Cpanel??? Blah.... Do it all by hand.

I need something with a few holes and bugs in it to keep me on my toes

Speaking of cPanel - anyone know why it's $20/month from servermatrix (cheaper server), but $25/month from the planet (more expensive server)? Shouldn't that be the other way round?

More expensive server = more expensive everything else? :shock:

Yeah, but it's exactly the same software, it does exactly the same thing, and has exactly the same bugs, so I don't see why they charge more :

I use Webmin, it's not as complete, but helps a lot
Can't say about the bugs though

I use apache.conf and Microsoft DNS to complete my stuff. Most of my clients are people who want their hands held. I don't host for people who need Cpanel. They are scared of Cpanel. They just want their email to work, me to set it up for them, take their webpages (via I've done it or they have) and host it on the web.

The voices in my head telling me to buy one of these got too loud and the free setup offer pushed me over the edge, so I gave in and ordered one at 14:52BST 02-07-2004... now to see how long setup takes (aparently upto 48hrs because of the offer) [edit]Up at 17:41BST 03-07-2004

Note to Kevin: can you make sure they put some kind of water-proofing on it before it's put outside.

Woot for you.

I second the w00t.

Hehe.

Our setup took about 39 hours for both the TC's we have. Normally, it only takes about 1-2 hours to set it up, but they have a bunch of things to do before they actually get to building the machine.

Just noticed something a bit weird under the hardware details in orbit:

Why 1 p4 xeon processor and 1 standard p4 processor?

prolly a mess up, should be 2 xeons, I'm also ordering one of these today also!

Oops, I don't see that tab in Orbit.. I guess someone kicked too hard and it fell off

Login to orbit, and click hardware --> hardware details from the list on the left (note: it's not listed in the list on the right - guess someone missed it out)

I think mine is a rackmount RLX box rather than a tower dell like the picture.

Cool! Thanks. I found it.