AULRO Server hardware

[LRO53]

Hi,

I have always wondered what hardware AULRO sits on? Compared to forums such as

Overclockers Australia Forums - Powered by vBulletin (http://forums.overclockers.com.au)
http://lrsoc.com

it is extremely slow to process pages and searches compared to other forums i've used.

[incisor]

Hi,

I have always wondered what hardware AULRO sits on? Compared to forums such as

Overclockers Australia Forums - Powered by vBulletin (http://forums.overclockers.com.au)
http://lrsoc.com

it is extremely slow to process pages and searches compared to other forums i've used.

series one club wouldnt have anywhere near the traffic this place has and is running smf which would simply die on its butt trying to drive this sort of setup so your not comparing apples with apples. most i have seen online there is about 10 at once.

as for overclockers, never been there and no idea what hardware they have it running on.. so cant comment

more a symptom of the size of the link your isp has into pipenetworks IX in brisbane i would think... but it could be a myriad of things

aulro runs on two systems these days

from memory

a sun t1000 32 cpu core unit with 16gig of ram and 70gig of sasi disk drive (mirrored of course) doing web and database and barely raising a sweat cpu wise and at about 30% i/o wise

and an ibm quad core intel based 1ru server handling mail and other services...

am sure some will beg to differ...

[incisor]

overclockers is running the same software but doesnt appear to be running any addons which helps speed.
and page load times are very similar to aulro load times on my link here at work...

[VladTepes]

You pose an interesting question so lets look at the history of it.

AULRO started small. Few members, lower bandwidth demands and so on. This was the first server:
http://www.lindsaybks.com/trau/stcomp/stcomp.jpg





Word got around and the forum began to grow. which required a new generation of technology to function:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2012/03/511.jpg

which itself became quickly outdated.



Next was:

http://concept51.co.uk/img/mainframe.jpg

http://cache.io9.com/assets/images/8/2008/04/80s_mainframe_io9.flv.jpg

There's a photo around somewhere of our own p38aRover manning the console of one of the AULRO servers...




AULRO now sees exponential growth and looks something like this, I'm sure....

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2012/03/512.jpg



and as we speak Inc is working on the next generation....




























https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2012/03/419.jpg

[clubagreenie]

Would we be better off just plugging in a TD5?

[Pedro_The_Swift]

the rattle would make my beer go flat!!:eek:

[LRO53]

I get the same speeds from home as i do via work which is on a 30mbit pipe. AULRO is still a dog of a website to load compared to everything else. It aways has been.

I would say the add ons as you say might slow it up.

Regarding SMF. That's a little harsh.... Considering there own website support forums currently have around 2000 guests browsing and the performance is excellent.

Are you able to get the little thing at the bottom of the page which will tell us how long the page was created in? Eg. Page created in 0.166 seconds with 6 queries. (From a SMF Site)

From Home:
Tracing route to aulro.com [202.182.124.179]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms home.gateway [192.168.1.254]
2 15 ms 16 ms 14 ms nexthop.qld.iinet.net.au [203.215.9.250]
3 15 ms 14 ms 15 ms te7-1.bne-pipe-bdr2.iinet.net.au [203.215.8.22]

4 15 ms 16 ms 14 ms as24130.brisbane.pipenetworks.com [218.100.0.2]

5 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms voicevalley.pipenetworks.com [203.161.128.126]
6 16 ms 15 ms 16 ms mail.aulro.com [202.182.124.179]

Trace complete.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

using this site--
http://www.1-hit.com/all-in-one/php/tool.loading-time-checker.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Faulro.com

Total size of your HTML2209 Bytes.
http://aulro.com/images/misc/aulrologo1.jpg33973 Bytes.
Total size of your images33973 Bytes.
Total size of others (js,css) Bytes.
Total size of your Web Page 36182 Bytes.
Loading time of your Web Page8.3 seconds.

this come up as a GREEN result,
which I gather means OK.

[incisor]

AULRO is still a dog of a website to load compared to everything else. It aways has been.

sorry, i do what i can with what i have available to me....

[It'sNotWorthComplaining!]

Would we be better off just plugging in a TD5?
They tried that, but they found glitches ,log on problems, slow connections.
Inc found it was the injector loom was oiling up.So the idea was abandoned

[KarlB]

sorry, i do what i can with what i have available to me....

... and a damn good job too!

Cheers
KarlB:)

[mojo]

... and a damn good job too!

Cheers
KarlB:)

I disagree, he could be doing more. Surely it's not too much to ask for AULRO to be hosted on a K Computer :

http://www.fujitsu.com/img/KCOM/top/fujitsu-kcomputer.jpg

I'm assuming 10 Peta flops would be enough to handle my searches for TD5 starter motor problems ... :D

Cheers
Sean

[incisor]

FYI

main forum page (the one that lists all the forums)

Generated in 0.24353 seconds (10 queries) with 321 users online

more than acceptable i would have thought as it is a big page ...

[Blknight.aus]

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2012/03/419.jpg

If SWMBO had gotten out of bed and made it I'd have spat coffee over that, as it was I dropped some weetbix...

That EXACT image was loaded onto my phone old smart phone and all the sound files changed to sound bites from HAL as a practical joke.... (any one who knows how to hack that onto the lock and splash screen of an andoid phone, could be beers in it)

for everyone who reckons its too slow... Its a landrover site, its staying true to its heratige. Just got to work out a way to make it leak oil now.