Staff - question. What powers techpowerup?

[Alec§taar]

What kind of system (machine(s)) power this forums?

(CPU, memory, disks, etc.)

* The "techno-details" etc.

(Site moves pretty fast, good responsiveness & all that, so I am curious!)

Thanks!

APK

P.S.=> Oh, also - software for forums/site & OS used as well, I am curious there as well! There is a website that can pretty much tell me, OR there used to be (http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/ iirc) but, it is best to ask directly, as that WON'T tell me a hardware makeup... thanks! apk

[error_f0rce]

I've wondered that myself, as far as what forum software they use.

While we're at it I have a question for the staff as well:

How do you get pictures to post as clickable thumbnails (like in the news bulletins)?? Whenever I post mine they come out huge, and that's just annoying when there's like 5 of them in a row. I've asked other people who I've seen do it, but never get a clear response.

EDIT: congrats on your 1,000th post Alec!!

[Dippyskoodlez]

I've wondered that myself, as far as what forum software they use.

While we're at it I have a question for the staff as well:

How do you get pictures to post as clickable thumbnails (like in the news bulletins)?? Whenever I post mine they come out huge, and that's just annoying when there's like 5 of them in a row. I've asked other people who I've seen do it, but never get a clear response.

EDIT: congrats on your 1,000th post Alec!!


Link to a thumbnail sized image, then as you would text, link the image to the larger version.

Best way to do it.

As for my system, I'm planning on buying this:
Sempron 2800+ AM2
Abit NF5 SLI
500w Antec Smartpower 2.0
512mb Mushkin DDR2 667
160gb samsung spinpoint Sata
Sapphire X850xt 256mb

=)

OS use: OSx, Linux, Windows. Prettymuch everything.

haha! nevermind! I read the post.. you're asking what the SERVER is running...

That, you'll have to ask w1zz. 3.0ghz xeons iirc.. but I'm not positive..

Linux ofcourse.

[Cj_Staal]

It is on a Dual Xeon I believe running Fedora Core I think with Apache 1.3.33 I think

EDIT:Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) Server at www.techpowerup.com Port 80
(I dont edit out mistakes to make me look smarter... I just add the right info in the edit :))
You can see for yourself by going to http://www.techpowerup.com/*addbullshithere*

[Polaris573]

Does W1zzard own the server or does he rent it from a company?

[Cj_Staal]

Rent

[Dippyskoodlez]

Rent

Would make sense. Fat bandwidth pipes arent cheap. :toast:

[djbbenn]

Comes from www.theplanet.com I believe. W1z told me, I just forget lol.

-Dan

[DanTheBanjoman]

The old server is a P4, the new (has been running for like a year) one is a Dual Xeon which ticks at 2.8Ghz if I remember correctly. I recall both having 2GB of RAM.
As for software, I'm not sure W1z wants me to share that information (not that I know everything in the first place) due to exploiting n00bs and scriptkiddies.

Look here (http://www.techpowerup.com/contact.php) for some additional global info (bottom)

[Slater]

Dan anyone can get that info if they know how, easily :)

[DanTheBanjoman]

Dan anyone can get that info if they know how, easily :)

Doesn't mean we should help them.

[W1zzard]

the forums, dl.techpowerup.com and the main site's web server for http://www.techpowerup.com is a single p2800s from theplanet. 100 mbit 2.5tb traffic limit

tpu.org, dl2.techpowerup.com and techpowerup mail are on some lowly p4 from theplanet. 100 mbit. 2.0 tb traffic limit

dl3.techpowerup is an opterpron box from strato in germany, 100 mbit, no traffic limit

dl4.techpowerup.com is a p4 3.0 ht from razorservers, 20 mbit, no traffic limit.

all servers are rented

if we run out of any resource (bw/cpu/mem) this will be upgraded so you dont suffer from slow speeds

the forums software is vbulletin which is by far the best forums software in the world
the main site runs on custom written php code (php + smarty template engine) and uses vbulletin as data storage backend for many things