Harmonix donates $2,000: Server upgrade on the way!

**thebledkid** · Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 6 Location: Tennessee

Harmonix are true gamers to the extreme. I love them. Maybe they will make another Amplitude.

**Hackelmania13** · Joined: 25 Dec 2006 Posts: 1121 Location: Wisconsin

Harmonix rules...we love you guys. \m/
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**DemonHybrid** · Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Posts: 2871 Location: Matamoras, PA

We love you, Harmonix! Thank you so much!

**Emptyeye** · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 828

Rock the hell on Harmonix. Amazing, just amazing.
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**VeX** · Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 188 Location: Glendora, CA

Jesus, Harmonix rules! Thanks for the HUGE donation. We love you all.
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I think I'll go 1 by 1.

Next goal: 5 star all of expert. (63/64) Damn Six. I'll get it before GH3 for sure.

**Sexydude505** · Joined: 11 May 2007 Posts: 7

Sweet

**chidori** · Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 565 Location: Woodland, CA

thats awesome thanks harmonix

**MyHeadHurts** · Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 57

Does anyone know when the new server will be up?

**Djstitan5** · Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 112 Location: Columbus, Oh

My Scorehero has already ran faster since the the goal was met

**methinkso** · Joined: 13 Feb 2007 Posts: 321

**Sosaman66** · Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 236 Location: Minneapolis, MN

my scorehero has been running really quickly in the last couple of hours. it's very nice to see the pages zoom past as i continue my assault on Medium :-) can't wait to see how fast it goes on monday!!

Do we know what any of the specs of the new server will be?
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odu479 wrote:

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Good to know you do things that you have no idea what they do. I hope for humanity's sake, you never work in a nuclear testing facility.

**methinkso** · Joined: 13 Feb 2007 Posts: 321

**Sosaman66** · Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 236 Location: Minneapolis, MN

very true. i even thought about that when i started typing, but then it left my mind and didn't comment about that. Here's my sign...

(but i did get 100% on Jessica and Miserlou on medium tonight.)
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emptyset wrote:

odu479 wrote:

wrote:
i hav no clue wat i jus did

Good to know you do things that you have no idea what they do. I hope for humanity's sake, you never work in a nuclear testing facility.

**JCirri** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 4576

Ok, I've now got the new server and for those who have been asking it's a 2x Dual Core AMD Opteron 2216 (2 x 2 x 2.4 GHz) with 8 GB RAM. The machine is setup and mostly configured with a test copy of the site currently running with upgraded database software (MySQL 5.0). It's much faster, but still not fast enough and I'd like to take this opportunity of having a test environment without any user load to make a number of additional modifications to the system to make it even faster.

Additionally, the new machine is unfortunately in a different physical location than the current machine such that the network latency between them is 40ms. This pretty much rules out my original plan to keep the web server on the old machine and access the database remotely. So I'll need to transfer the DNS and run both the web and database locally on the new machine. This will likely mean some downtime for the site during DNS propagation.

After another day or two of testing and benchmarking I will make another announcement with my final plan before proceeding.
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