Houston Clubs web design and life

How much traffic can a 1u rack Server handle

Oct 8, 2009 by Paul White

Being that I am on the verge of colocating my own box.  This is one of the many questions I have asked myself.  So a little math to determine the theoretical maximums, and some thoughts on how you can built a server that can support them.

SuperMico SuperServer giving slow RAID 10 performance

Oct 4, 2009 by Paul White

When you go out of your way to build an awesome server,  you demand performance.  4 SAS drives should perform better than a single SATA drive right?  I thought so too.  Not sure if I have something configured wrong, but I have gotten desperate enough to contact SuperMicro about this.  Hopefully they will get back with me soon, as I was hoping to colocate this box by Nov, 1st 2009

w3wp.exe using too much memory and resources

Oct 1, 2009 by Paul White

If you are having problems with the w3wp.exe process using too much memory, I have the solution to your problems.  Not only will this reduce the size of your w3wp.exe but it will also speed up your website and reduce the amount of transfer your site uses. 

Colocate your own Server

Sep 29, 2009 by Paul White

You haven't officially earned the title of Nerd, until you own a server, and colocate it. I am 1 month from earning my stripes. Just got a server off ebay, and now I am loading it up, and getting it ready for colocation.  If you ever wanted to know what it takes, my experiences may be of help.

SmarterMail 6 Migration Issue with subfolders

Sep 28, 2009 by Paul White

If you recently migrated one of your domains to another box running smartermail 6 and you had a problem with email not displaying on the subfolders of your mailbox, then you need to read this blog

73 GB 10K SAS Drive RAID 10 Benchmark SuperMicro Server

Sep 25, 2009 by Paul White

If you are anything like me, that means you try to find used goods on ebay rather than buying new hardware from Dell or HP.  So I think I scored pretty nicely with my $425 SuperMicro Server.  That was until I ran a bench mark on it. 

CSS div img overlap problem in IE 7

Sep 23, 2009 by Paul White

Not sure why by it seems that IE 7 if you have a DIV and you put something inside it like another DIV or an Image, then you float that item, the item will overlap the bottom of the container div.  The fix was very easy but for some it may not work depending on your design.  The solution was to assign a width to the container div.  This might explain why most newer sites are using fixed width layouts to fit a 1024 display.  So if you wan to make the switch to table less layouts, you might need to rethink how you build websites.

Houston Getting 50 Mbit residential connections early 2010

Sep 20, 2009 by Paul White

One of my neighbors works in management for Comcast here in Houston.  After talking with him it would seem that Comcast has big plans for Residential Service in Houston.  Like 50Mb/sec type of plans.  Or for those of you who prefer to think of data transfer in Bytes.  6.25 MB/sec downloads.

Core i7 WorkStation revised

Sep 20, 2009 by Paul White

A few of my friends wanted me to blog a little more about my computer setup.  With the recent addition of a 30 inch Samsung SyncMaster 305T monitor to my displays, I thought this would be a good time to update the world on what I am running.

SuperMicro 1U Rack Server 6014H-32 needs extra card for RAID 10

Sep 18, 2009 by Paul White

For anyone who thinks its a great idea to buy a 1U rack server and colocate their own box.  I have a few thoughts about SuperMicro and how they setup their 6014H-32 superserver.  Basically if you want RAID 10 you have to buy an extra card.  else you are stuck with RAID 0, or RAID 1.  Which are great, but when you have 4 SAS drives naturally you want to use RAID 10 for both speed and redundancy.