Thanks for the quick response Willliam. Dang, your fast.



100 gigabytes is one heck of a load to handle, not to mention the cost of maintaining it all...

Which gives me the excuse of saying again, CLICK ON THE GOOGLE ADS!!!

I click like 10 times everyday.

[Edited on 10-31-2003 by Saucerat]

10 times for one person is too much. If everyone just clicked as they finished their session on the board, the server would be nicely fed.

from what i can imagine, you can never have too much clicking unless they cap the amount per ip per day

Yeah... too many clicks from one IP would be bad.

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William

Just curious, how come you never saw the ATS server? Aren't you the IT Director? Did Simon actually saw it?

Or is it all hosted and operated by a third party?

And to the one who talked about fridge-like computer, no single website on earth will never need a thing like that. They're super computer, or mainframe.
For a website to need a machine like that, I guess it would have to have 10 time the traffic of msn, yahoo and aol alltogether. And still...not sure it would really need that.

It's a rack machine hosted by a rackspace privider. While only about 2.5 inces tall (1U), it's pretty wide and deep. It's in Texas, I'm in NY.

And actually, many major websites need systems that would equal the space of 6 or more refrigerators. Google, for instance, is hosted in a large-size computer room with over 200 servers in 18 racks... and that's just the web servers, not the database servers.

Damn!!! What the hell are they using nano technology for anyway!?

just kiddin'...