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Welcome to Our New Server
Posted by Henrik on 4 October 2003, 09:19 GMT

If you are reading this, then you are visiting us at our new server.

After two years of planning and behind-the-scenes work, we have finally retired our old trustworthy Pentium 200 MMX, 128 MB memory, running Linux 2.2. On our Hardware and Software page, you can read more about the new hardware in our main server and what software we use as of now.

Basically, we now have a dual processor machine, lots of memory, and hard disks in a RAID 5 configuration that gives four times as much disk space as before. We have also moved up to Linux 2.4 and Apache 2.0 (from 1.3).

But it is not all hardware and server software. More behind-the-scenes work has been done on our in house software solutions. We took the time to streamline and optimize, sometimes rewrote parts of our systems and services to better serve you in the years to come.

This upgrade will enable to us to extend, enhance, and add new features to the ticalc.org you know and love. Once again, welcome to our new server.

(The photo shows the new server in the back of Magnus' car on 28 October 2002 when he picked it up from Henrik.)

Update (Henrik): You should also note better response and download times from our web server. The first reason is Apache MPM worker that gives us a hybrid multi-threaded multi-process server instead of the old non-threaded, pre-forking server. The second reason is mod_deflate that compresses content before it is delivered to the client. Both these new features will most of the time decrease download time per page at least tenfold.

Update (Henrik): Buy & Sell service has been retired as there are better similar services out there.

Update (Henrik): Site Map is gone as we believe our site is easy enough to navigate anyway.

Update (Henrik): Hosted sites are able to update their sites again.

Update (Henrik): Our file archivers are processing the incoming queue once again. Please report any problems.

Update (Henrik): Hosted sites should ftp to their hostname in order to update their site, not ftp.ticalc.org, as it does not exist anymore.

 


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Re: Welcome to Our New Server
anthony C  Account Info

Hello there!

I just wanted to point out that it is possible to search Ticalc.org using google.com. In any Google.com search box, type in what you want to search, and then type "site:www.ticalc.org" (example: to search for Zshell on ticalc, type "Zshell site:www.ticalc.org")

Anthony

     6 October 2003, 11:55 GMT


Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
KermMartian Account Info
(Web Page)

That's true, thank you for mentioning that valuable tip, especially since the ticalc.org search feature seems to be disabled after a certain point in the archives.

     6 October 2003, 14:20 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
W Hibdon  Account Info

I would call it lacking, not disabled. Very lacking!

-W-

     6 October 2003, 17:20 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
Magnus Hagander  Account Info
(Web Page)

Oh, it's there. Somwhere. Just not fully working yet, and this not enabled yet.

     6 October 2003, 19:27 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
angelboy Account Info
(Web Page)

Could you make it so we can search for only a certain directory (such as 89, or /asm/)

     6 October 2003, 21:11 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
Chickendude Account Info
(Web Page)

no

     16 October 2003, 00:14 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
W Hibdon  Account Info

And why, may I ask, not? It seems like a perfectly fine idea to me. It would be really sweet if the search worked, but while fixing it, they could give it extra fearures, no?

-Look there, a cricket. Look now, a dead cricket, W-

     16 October 2003, 22:46 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
Chickendude Account Info
(Web Page)

I dunno, I was just saying. They sure could, if they really wanted to, or you could just add '89' or something to the end of your search. Personally, I've never really used the search all that much.

     16 October 2003, 23:42 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
W Hibdon  Account Info

Eh, It is nothing. Really, it is nothing. It sucks as a search tool. But what are you goung to do? Oh, use google, and type "site:[sitename]" then the search. Oh well.

-Look there, a cricket. Look now, a dead cricket, W-

     17 October 2003, 01:12 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
Matt M

Is the E-mail and Contact Us working? I sent a E-mail about my account and never got a reply. I still can't view the "Author Record" and I can't use the "Attach Author Record" either.

     10 October 2003, 15:47 GMT

Re: Welcome to Our New Server
Mr.Silver Account Info

It's so cute! ;)

     6 October 2003, 23:40 GMT


!?!?!?!?!?!?
no_one_2000_  Account Info
(Web Page)

!?

Eh, I don't care if it's cute or not... just as long as it runs fast. And it does.

     6 October 2003, 23:51 GMT


Re: !?!?!?!?!?!?
KermMartian Account Info
(Web Page)

hmm...I've never heard of a server called "cute" before. THe TI-83SE, maybe, but a server, no.

     7 October 2003, 22:50 GMT


Re: Re: !?!?!?!?!?!?
Chickendude Account Info
(Web Page)

just look at it..all those pretty buttons... O.o

     16 October 2003, 00:15 GMT

Re: Welcome to Our New Server
Joe Pemberton  Account Info
(Web Page)

Not sure if anyone else noted this, but the webstats are down.

     7 October 2003, 01:58 GMT

Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
Kevin Kofler
(Web Page)

That's why "Statistics" is in the list of still broken things...

     7 October 2003, 08:10 GMT


Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
Morgan Davies  Account Info
(Web Page)

Yes...all stats are currently frozen.

     7 October 2003, 08:43 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
nick monu  Account Info

any idea when the stats will be up and running?

     7 October 2003, 18:24 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
Magnus Hagander  Account Info
(Web Page)

Nope.

There were a few major changes, so core parts of the stats counters have to be rewritten. But all old logs are being saved, so once the software is fixed up we will still count all downloads.

     7 October 2003, 20:56 GMT

Re: Welcome to Our New Server
Joe Pemberton  Account Info
(Web Page)

The featured programs are not working.

     7 October 2003, 21:45 GMT


Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
W Hibdon  Account Info

Yep, defiantly, def -- defiantly not working.

-W-

     7 October 2003, 22:11 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
Matt Mullins  Account Info

umm... do you mean `definitely'?

defiantly means `against orders' :-)

     8 October 2003, 00:53 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
W Hibdon  Account Info

Damn the spell check. I thiught it looked funny. Yeah, I ment "definitely". Also, I was doing my rainman impression, but it is typing, so it does not go over that well.

-W-

     8 October 2003, 01:05 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
Morgan Davies  Account Info
(Web Page)

Well the page that displays all the featured programs isn't up.

You can't really say that featured programs aren't working, I mean it's either green or it's not.

     8 October 2003, 01:09 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
Joe Pemberton  Account Info
(Web Page)

That's why I included a link to the featured program page in my post.

     8 October 2003, 18:09 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
Matthew Marshall  Account Info

'defiantly' works also.

MWM

     10 October 2003, 22:35 GMT

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