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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
spike11  Account Info
(Web Page)

It is much faster! I use dial-up and broadband and it is much, much better now.

P.S. Calc programmers, if you need help programming, post what you need at www.calcjobs.tk

     10 October 2003, 16:39 GMT


 
W Hibdon  Account Info

AH!! it is phpbb, or close enough! How can you recomend a phpbb site to anyone that has had the privelidge to use such fine threaded messege boards such as you see before you?!? You should be drug to the middle of what ever busy street you live near, and SHOT!

           -W-

     11 October 2003, 00:27 GMT


Re:  
W Hibdon  Account Info

Not to say people should not go there. It has potential. Seriously, I don't want to be responsible for the downfall of a site before it gets off the ground.

-W-

     11 October 2003, 00:41 GMT

Re: Welcome to Our New Server
Matthew Marshall  Account Info

On my 45K connection, it took me only 5 seconds to load this page with 184 comments!

MWM

     10 October 2003, 22:18 GMT

Re: Welcome to Our New Server
bizpile

There is still a link on the main page to the now discontinued Site Map under "New to This?".

     11 October 2003, 05:25 GMT


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

Fixed.

     11 October 2003, 15:39 GMT

Re: Welcome to Our New Server
Chris Remo  Account Info

I know this probably isn't the place for this comment, but I don't know where else to put it.

Anyway, I haven't been to ti-calc.org for a couple years (I wrote a couple reviews for it back in the day), and I can't seem to find the reviews section of the site. Is that section discontinued? If not, where is it located now?

Thanks for any help.

     12 October 2003, 00:20 GMT


burntfuse  Account Info

[The text of this article has been removed by a news editor due to violation of the acceptable use policy.]

     12 October 2003, 13:15 GMT

Re:
Chris Remo  Account Info
(Web Page)

Thanks a lot. That honestly never would have occurred to me.

     12 October 2003, 13:33 GMT


 
burntfuse  Account Info

Any time. :) Looks like they removed my comment-no idea why, I was just giving site navigation help....

     13 October 2003, 21:47 GMT


Re:
Kevin Kofler Account Info
(Web Page)

Well, not only is it hidden, it doesn't even seem to work:
http://www.ticalc.org/ archives/reviews/
"[an error occurred while processing this directive]"

     12 October 2003, 22:56 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

You're right....

     13 October 2003, 22:12 GMT

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

There is a bug in the "Awards" page: http://www.ticalc.org/ community/awards/
"[an error occurred while processing this directive]"

     12 October 2003, 22:52 GMT

Re: Welcome to Our New Server
W Hibdon  Account Info

It says in the article that the buy and sell has been retired. However, I was not aware of such a section existing. What was able to be bought? Was it that Magnus thong?

-W-

     14 October 2003, 22:41 GMT

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burntfuse  Account Info

It was mostly graphlink cables....once there was an '83+....but that got sold :)....

     15 October 2003, 00:04 GMT

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

It was section where you could sell something TI related that you had (calcs, link cables, keyboards). So you could sell what you had, or you could buy from someone else.

     15 October 2003, 01:49 GMT


Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
burntfuse  Account Info

BTW, look!!!!!!!!!!!! >:O ALL OF OUR COMMENTS COMPLAINING ABOUT COMMENT REMOVAL WERE DELETED!!!!!!! THIS IS STARTING TO STRONGLY REMIND ME OF THE BOOK 1984 (EXCEPT NOT AS SERIOUS)-PERFECTLY REASONABLE COMMENTS ARE DELETED (LIKE ONE THAT I POSTED HELPING ANOTHER MEMBER WITH SITE NAVIGATION, AND A POST BY W HIBDON ASKING FOR SOME PROGRAMMING HELP), AND WHEN WE COMPLAIN ABOUT THEM, OUR COMPLAINTS ARE REMOVED!!!!!!!

     19 October 2003, 13:36 GMT


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

You know, typing in all caps is VERY ANNOYING!!!
Just use caps an the beginning of sentences and
for emphasising certain words.

     19 April 2004, 00:48 GMT

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

I miss ftp!!!

I forgot what I was going to say. :[ oopsies!

     15 October 2003, 16:38 GMT

Email changes
Eugene Talagrand Account Info

I've tried to change the email address associated with my account, but I'm getting a

Error: Failed to update author record!



every time. Is this a general problem?

     18 October 2003, 05:03 GMT

Re: Welcome to Our New Server
tal_oz  Account Info

I belive that after 2 and a half weeks the server should be fully functioning. At least the statistics should be working.

     21 October 2003, 22:59 GMT

Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
burntfuse  Account Info

That's good....I've been waiting for the statistics to come back again.

     22 October 2003, 00:08 GMT


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

Are the statistics that went on the time the server got'em off going to be lost?, or the server is still saving them but not displaying them?

     31 October 2003, 02:16 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
Gamer13  Account Info

Yes they are being recorded but the software is not running. If you read above you will note that they say that.

     3 November 2003, 03:58 GMT

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