[thesite] Re: [Admin] oracle..
Daniel J. Cody
djc at starkmedia.com
Thu Apr 26 01:58:29 CDT 2001
got back a bit ago. went to a Brewers game with my suit, was awesome! we
just got a new stadium here and its really nice.. 4th row, locker room
access after the game, got shitfaced with jeremey burnitz :)
anyways, oracle.
jamie said they had some bad RAM in the machine, and thats why oracle
pucked tonite(and had pucked last week). thankfully, she had some extra
RAM onhand(thanks to my 8 month old disaster recovery plan) and dropped
that in the box. total downtime tonite was about 20 minutes.
so, i'd like to expand on why we're still at oracular where this shit
happens. :)
we need *ONE* more box for evolt. nothing super hardcore. I talked to
bob the other night about it and heres what i have and what we need,
followed by what that will get us.
i have right now: 100Gb of 10K seagate cheetah drives. if cheetah rings
a bell you know what i'm talking about and why we're good in the stroage
dept.
i have right now: an 800Mhz slot 1 133Mhz bus Pentium 3 that would more
than handle the work of w.e.o(more to come)
i have right now: 768Mb of 133Mhz bus speed RAM. that is way more than
we need for w.e.o
i have right now: the box, the power and the bandwidth to shove it all in.
what i dont have: a slot 1 133Mhz Motherboard. these are hard to find
and halfway expensive because Intel changed a bunch of shit right around
700Mhz. if you know hardware you know what i'm talking about. if you
don't it makes no sense to explain it. :) if you want me to, let me know :)
what we dont have: corprate types giving us free hardware. they *love*
doing this for site like us, we just need to give them a reason(hence my
insistance on the 'why youre company should give us shit' doc's.
what i dont have: a decent oracle admin. i can do server maintence, but
good oracle skills(the one thing oracle actually has) are hard to come
by. maybe dean could fill this roll if we ran our own shit.
why this would all be good for us: total independance. we've got this
right now with b.e.o and l.e.o and m.e.o since they all sit on the
same(very nice thanks to member contributions) box. we also have two
relay servers right now which rule. i could drop this on an internet
connection anywhere and we'd be fine. if we could have our *own* oracle
box and webserver, we'd be in the same awesome boat. it also makes us
accountable for our own crashes instead of oracular using shitty RAM.
and thats a good thing.
tagwear plays into this huge, which is why i'm happy bob is on that.
tagwear will give us a viable stream of revenue to use for evolt purposes.
i *want* to get that shit 'that we need' right now, and i would on my
own, but the suit is costing more than i thought. the hosting to
oracular is starting to add up to. the cost for bandwidth(which i get at
a very discounted rate, but costs money all the same) for [l,b,m].e.o is
about 250 a month. all in all, i'm dropping about 500 a month on evolt
stuff.. and not that i'm bitching or anything :) i would just like to
get some mechanisms in gear(tagwear!) that could offset some of these
costs for us and pay for improvments.
again, i'm not bitching and i dont want pats on the back(although beer
or bombay would be nice :) or anything..
so thats what happened and where things stand.. i've probably written a
much longer email than i should have, but wtf ya know :)
.djc.
Daniel J. Cody wrote:
> ok, its back and everything is as it should be..
>
> i'll find out reasons why later.. for now I'm reeeeeeeeeeally late and
> paying for it :(
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