Maybe that is true. But if anyone can recall this forum too had it's times on the old server. Not only the well known outage during the end of the NASC auction, but also some random outages. Big forum, little forum, busy forum, slow forum... The base of it all is a good server IMHO. And how can you be sure your server will be there for you when you have no idea who else you are sharing with?
That's my view anyway LOL
Let me show you the RAM and CPU difference between the old server and the new one just for fun. These all show a 1 week period. And yes, the last server was a dedicated server as well.. More ram, and faster processor on the new one provide more open resources- a well worth it investment I think. I still need to move the gallery over though, it is still running on the old server :-\ But it's quite a process to move all the images and everything so I've not yet had time to do that.
edit: I'm not saying more traffic has nothing to do with it. But I am saying just because I'm not as busy as them, does not mean I don't put in the effort to keep it running. The largest difference between this server, and one for a forum with 10 or 20 times the traffic would be more MB transfer. But not a ton more load on the ram and processor. Even at the end of this year's auction... we were well below the old server's "normal" usage.
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And just for fun... I figured I'd share some visitor stats. We all get consumed with looking at the current active users list- but we never really realize how many people pass through this forum every day looking for the information they need without becoming a member.
Lets take a look at last week (oct. 18th - oct. 24th) there were:
-214456 page views (total pages viewed)
-20764 unique visits (meaning different people)
Other cool info:
2nd most visitors come from yahoo, double that in first place is google. Nepenthes around the house is 3rd!! (referring 44 people in that week)
USA is the #1 country visiting. Second is Australia and thrid is Singapore followed by Sweden, Brazil, then Canada. (Germany, Malaysia, Finland....)
Most people connecting here use Cox for their internet at twice the number of visitors than Comcast. Third is roadrunner.
This shouldn't be a surprise.. but most visitors use Windows (10x more than #2). Next is Mac and then Linux.
The majority of visitors are using Windows XP just under than is Vista, and then MacOs. Followed by Linux, windows 2000, windows 98, windows 95, windows ce, windows NT.
The most common browser used here is Mozilla (woot firefox!) then IE (uhm, upgrade guys
) followed by Safari, Netscape, Opera and WAP Mobile.
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