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If all goes well, NAO's server will be treated with a major hardware and software upgrade this Saturday. This will make it ready for NAO:NG and a bunch of other performance-hungry projects. Of course this means that
NAO will occasionally be down this Saturday from approx. 12:00 to 16:00 GMT.
(That's 8am-12pm for most USAians, 14:00-18:00 for most Europeans, and 22:00-02:00 for the Aussies.)

The server is my area of responsibility and it's a planned outage, so please don't send mails to Jaz telling NAO is down and asking what's wrong like last time. :-)

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

This post was edited by null on Aug 04, 2005.

NAO will occasionally be down this Saturday from approx. 12:00 to 16:00 GMT.
(That's 8am-12pm for most USAians, 14:00-18:00 for most Europeans, and 22:00-02:00 for the Aussies.)

No, oh my god - NOOOOO!
What will I do with all the free time then! 8-o
That cannot - that MUST NOT be!

cu, w0lf.

Fuck off the 30 seconds posting limit!

That cannot - that MUST NOT be!

You could try making little "typing" motions with your hands. Works for me when I'm forced offline for a longer period of time :-)

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

software upgrade

New version of FreeBSD? Linux? We wanna know... Is NG still written in Perl or did Jaz use JSP/Servlets this time?

New Version of FreeBSD, more disk space, and RAID for that extra bit of speed when dealing with multi-GB databases or large MPEG files. And of course the whole software collection (Apache, perl, PHP, ruby, samba, ...) will be updated.

Is NG still written in Perl or did Jaz use JSP/Servlets this time?

For all I know, Jaz is very fond of (ruby on) rails. What the end product will look like remains to be seen.

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

Are you serious? NG is done in Rails? I find that truly amazing considering the amount of love Jaz has for Perl and the fact that Rails has just jumped on the scene with only a year of development under it's belt. On the other hand Rails does look like it's going to turn into a really cool productive and stable framework. I'm excited to see what happens with it!

On the other hand the server is sounding extremely cool. Which version of FreeBSD are you going to be running? I'm getting ready to buy a new server and replace my aging celeron 566. I still haven't choosen what linux distribution I want to run on it but I am leaning towards Ubuntu at the moment. It remains to be seen.

I find that truly amazing considering the amount of love Jaz has for Perl and the fact that Rails has just jumped on the scene with only a year of development under it's belt.

Actually I haven't written a line of Perl for a very long time. I began playing with Ruby on Rails about a year ago, when it was like beta 0.00001 and buggy as shit. From October 2004 to May this year or so we had a semi-private movie recommendation database running here on Netalive, just to see if Rails was mature enough to do a real site.

Since last year Rails has grown into a rather mature framework IMHO. Unless I had to do something brutally complex, I wouldn't want to use anything else for web application development.

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion

I began playing with Ruby on Rails about a year ago, when it was like beta 0.00001 and buggy as shit.

I noticed it about the time all the hype was surrounding it, sometime last year. I never really gave it much thought, too busy with other stuff. I stumbled on it again this year and started playing around with 0.12.1 then started playing around with just Ruby in general to learn it better. Now I'm about to start messing with it again and hopefully generate enough of an attention span to do something with it. I've been meaning and meaning to get my church's website into the 21st century with some type of content management system but just cannot get myself in gear to start, continue and finish. So many times I get started, go off on tangents and then life has a way of butting in and causing me to get distracted to the point that I cannot finish what I started. One of these days I hope that I'll actually be able to finish something that I've wanted to do. =)

Enough of my ranting... Good luck with the new server and I look forward to seeing the cool things you have come up with on Rails. It's going to be a real treat to see what NG is all about.

If you can read this, NAO is alive and kicking in its new home. Hooray for me ;-)

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

This post was edited by null on Aug 06, 2005.

On another note. Null, how fast was your old box and how much memory did it have? I'm curious because it seemed to handle the traffic ok. I'm just trying to get a benchmark. My current server is a 566mhz Celeron with 256 ram with 2 websites that get minimal hits. There is nothing like a message board or a blog there as yet. I'll be upgrading to a faster box when I get everything planned out. I'd like to get a feel for the specs NAO was working with in the past.