After a month and a half long donation drive and 2 weeks of waiting, ordering, and waiting, it is finally here. The new NCAAbbs Server (Actually two if you want to get technical) will fix our load issues with massive crowds and bring stability to the server for several years.

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And here’s a breakdown of the costs for the new server:

Annual Hosting (current server) ———–588.00
(4) Hard Drives Raptor 10K RPM 150Gb—–739.96
(4) 1Gb Memory Sticks——————–279.96
(2) Xeon Quad Core Intel Procs————703.98
(1) SuperMicro Rack Server Cluster——–1489.99

We’ll be upgrading to a 4U Rack at our datacenter (They’re all out of 2U’s) and setup one of the servers to “master” and the other two to “slaves” with replication technologies. I’ll also be back porting some MyBB 1.4 code for this special occasion (The master/slave technologies)

If everything goes well this should be up within the next few weeks; If you want to stay updated check out the NCAAbbs forum here: http://www.ncaabbs.com - Updates will be in the “Lounge -> Sports Bar Main” forum.

Feel free to ask questions below and I’ll be happy to answer.