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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
W Hibdon  Account Info

Ummm, I cannot get my custom page to load properly. Is this just me?

-W-

     4 October 2003, 15:26 GMT


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

This should be fixed now, please try again.

     4 October 2003, 16:58 GMT

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

Yes, thanks much. It is working fine now.

-W-

     4 October 2003, 18:06 GMT


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

While that has been fixed, I still cannot display more than 20 posts a page. You might look into this, too.

-W-

     4 October 2003, 18:09 GMT


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

Ok, this should also be fixed now.

     4 October 2003, 19:27 GMT


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

Ah, Magnus Hagander you are too good to me. Thanks very much.

-W-

     4 October 2003, 19:33 GMT


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

Yes, for those of you who didn't know....MAGNUS is a GOD!!

Seriously..Henrik and Magnus have put so much work into this that I can't even begin to describe how much we all owe them!!

Thanks sooo much!

//morgan

     4 October 2003, 19:39 GMT


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

Yeah, wow, this was done incredibly fast.

I didn't even get to the site when it was down.

     4 October 2003, 20:35 GMT


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

>>I didn't even get to the site when it was down.

Same here, I thought it would be a couple of days before it came up

     4 October 2003, 21:27 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Welcome to Our New Server
no_one_2000_  Account Info
(Web Page)

I came here, today, expecting it to be down, but it wasn't! That was a nice surprise.

     5 October 2003, 19:41 GMT

Re: Welcome to Our New Server
Travis Evans Account Info

That was fast. :-) I don't even remember ticalc.org being down at all. But I only check in about once a day.

     4 October 2003, 15:42 GMT

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

The link to "Reload preferences cookie" doesn't work, it just goes to that page, then immediatly redirects to index.html. I want to reload my preferences cookie!

     4 October 2003, 15:56 GMT


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

This should be fixed now, please try again.

     4 October 2003, 16:59 GMT

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

You can add "Text (readme etc.) files in ZIP archives" to the list of things still not working. Test case:

http://www.ticalc.org/ cgi-bin/zipview? win/graphics/istudio2.zip; iStudio.txt
(remove the spaces)

I would have sent this to the mail address provided, but I can't:
"Client host [213.46.255.25] blocked using dnsbl.sorbs.net; Spam Received See: http://www.dnsbl.sorbs.net/ cgi-bin/lookup? IP=213.46.255.25"
You are blocking ALL mail from chello.at. :-(

     4 October 2003, 16:31 GMT

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

Complain to your ISP that allows spammers to use their mail relay.

     4 October 2003, 16:42 GMT


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

See my comment I added below about the SORBS listing policies.

     4 October 2003, 16:52 GMT

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

This (zipview) has now been fixed.

     4 October 2003, 16:48 GMT


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

PS: I see SORBS is blocking ALL mail from chello.at because ONE spam mail to a spamtrap address has been sent from that server. (At least, that's what I gather from the information they are giving.) The server isn't listed as an open proxy or anything, so this is probably a subscriber abusing the service. How is an ISP supposed to prevent that from happening? They can boot off the abuser, but only AFTER at least one mail has been sent. And they won't even delist an ISP's mail server unless they donate $50 to some charity of their choosing. So, that SORBS list looks a bit suspect to me.

     4 October 2003, 16:51 GMT

Re: Welcome to Our New Server
swtaarrs  Account Info

This new server seems a lot faster, nice job!

     4 October 2003, 17:48 GMT

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

Updates

4 Oct 2003 Moved site to new server (mha/henrik)
6 Jan 2003 Added Jabber to possible contacts form on account (mha)
4 Jan 2003 Added MSN Messenger to possible contacts form on account ( mha)

It's about time something got updated. :D

     4 October 2003, 18:27 GMT

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

Expect to see a lot of more new stuff now when we finally moved to the new server and can get new stuff working.

     4 October 2003, 18:33 GMT


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

Not every update has been put up there, I have noted a few that weren't. Not a big deal tho.

     4 October 2003, 19:33 GMT


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

Yeah... tons of stuff has been updated without being mentioned on that.

     7 October 2003, 02:08 GMT

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