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We are testing a possible performance upgrade [message #51049]

Sun, 22 June 2008 20:56

timmy

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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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At some point we migrated to a different web environment. You certainly ought to notice no performance degradation. You may or may not notice a subjective performance enhancement.

We are experimenting with our new server to get the very best performance out of it. If you have any performance impressions they would be interesting, but MAY be limited by your access method or route.

[Updated on: Sun, 22 June 2008 20:56]

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Re: We are testing a possible performance upgrade [message #51050 is a reply to message #51049]

Sun, 22 June 2008 22:16

Deeej

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Location: Berkshire, UK
Registered: March 2005
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All I can say is ... you're well rid of your old provider. They completely lost a VM I had with them on Friday due to a double disk failure (RAID 1), and their backups turned out to be stored on the exact same disks ...

I've been using any even vaguely relevant opportunity to complain about them all weekend. Smile

Regarding the site speed, I haven't noticed any difference; but my own home internet connection's rubbish (even Google can take 10 seconds to load) so any bottleneck won't be at your end.

David

Re: We are testing a possible performance upgrade [message #51057 is a reply to message #51050]

Mon, 23 June 2008 08:41

timmy

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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13800

Ah we kind of knew about that concept. We used BQ Backup at $5 per month for that to insure against failure.

Currently we have dual independent drives.

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Re: We are testing a possible performance upgrade [message #51083 is a reply to message #51057]

Tue, 24 June 2008 22:00

Deeej

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Location: Berkshire, UK
Registered: March 2005
Messages: 3281

I did make a deliberate decision not to set up a regular backup on that particular system -- it was simply a secondary MX, secondary DNS and diagnostic shell machine, so easily recreated using backed-up configuration files and scripts. Even so, the primary annoyance is the TIME to restore these things to how they were before.

(Some of the systems we see at work, though ... oh my God, how can people sleep at night with no backups at all, frequently not even RAID 1?)

My main email system now has a daily filesystem backup to another disk, a weekly disk image backup (it's a VM for which I run the host) to a third disk, and a weekly off-site filesystem backup ... and I'm still worried that it's not enough. Smile

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