Server Upgrade this Offseason

[Zod]

Looking to upgrade our server this offseason. If anyone has experience with dedicated server hosting providers, please share.

Currently running a dual xeon, would need an upgrade from that. Linux based.

[Kevin Greene]

Sweet!

[Jensen]

:willy_nilly:

[rayzor]

i say get one with more hamsters.

[faultlessjoint]

^this

[WilmyWood]

I've used www.liquidweb.com for a few years now and recently upgraded to a dedicated server about 6 months ago. The support is phenomenal. I can safely say that I have never had to wait for someone to answer the phone or be put on hold for any support request and any issues or questions I've had were handled on the spot. I also cannot remember the last time I had any downtime.

They offer Linux and Windows hosting.

[Snake]

i say get one with more hamsters.

I say we upgrade to Lions. As long as they dont come from Detroit.

[natty]

I have used rackspace.com and hostedsolutions.com - both good imo(HS is charlotte based) .

You can't really do much to 'upgrade' from a dual xeon(I'm assuming you mean 2 quad-cores), you're going to have to start splitting things up to multiple servers.

[Wither]

What are you looking to upgrade, exactly? What is lacking? The hardware?

[janosha]

made2own.

/thread.

[Kyle82]

upgrades r good!!

[stankowalski]

Does this mean that we'll be able to talk about the game while the game is actually on the air?

[janderson20vt]

I'm currently an IT student. I don't have much hands on experience yet but I do know that the best server hosting option is going to be RackSpace. RackSpace is going to be the best/easiest solution. I've heard a lot of good about Amazon EC2 but I really don't know much about it.

What's the reasoning behind the Huddle bogging down right now? Is it a bandwidth or compute power issue? I'm guessing bandwidth.

[Zod]

I have used rackspace.com and hostedsolutions.com - both good imo(HS is charlotte based) .

You can't really do much to 'upgrade' from a dual xeon(I'm assuming you mean 2 quad-cores), you're going to have to start splitting things up to multiple servers.

I think the xeon we have is not 2 quad cores, just 1 each. Its over 2 years old. We would be moving from 2 cores to 8 cores. Should be substantial increase in performance.