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Here's the latest on What's Going On: Yesterday: Someone stuck a back-hoe through one of the fibre cables of our main Telco in downtown Toronto. This affected connection times for us and many other businesses for many hours. We didn't even bother yelling at the appropriate people because they sounded stressed enough as it was. This has now been fixed. Done Today: We now have 90% of our scheduled hardware upgrades done. Some upgraded web servers to handle current load, a new content DB server, dual firewalls with automatic failover, new switches and gigabit ethernet cards for inter-server communication (we're crying over not being able to afford fibre) and new cases all round. I've also installed Port80 Software's HttpZip[^] in the hope of speeding things up for those with slower connections. PLEASE - any comments on caching issues or corrupt downloads please email me at chris@codeproject.com.. Tomorrow: We're moving to our new hosted facility that will provide us with redundant internet connections, backup power, fire, security and a nifty thumbprint scan doorway. We'll also be increasing our bandwidth capacity 10 fold and reducing the latency to the closest backbone. Should mean a nice increase in connection speed and no more bottlenecks at peak times. This will mean an outage tomorrow afternoon starting at around 1pm US Eastern Standard Time. In the works: A complete rewrite of the site. Better DB and caching utilisation, a move to Win2003 and IIS6, and increases in web, download and DB access all round. To be done: clustering of database servers and more web servers. Another mail server to handle the load. Further DB work and caching optimisations. Always happening: More servers. As many as we can afford. The pain over the past few months with slow load time, bandwidth bottlenecks, slow page access due to slow DB servers and outages caused by Things Beyond Our Control have been extremely frustrating to us and we're sure to our readers. We are working our bums off trying to improve access to CodeProject for everyone. cheers, Chris Maunder
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Here's the latest on What's Going On: Yesterday: Someone stuck a back-hoe through one of the fibre cables of our main Telco in downtown Toronto. This affected connection times for us and many other businesses for many hours. We didn't even bother yelling at the appropriate people because they sounded stressed enough as it was. This has now been fixed. Done Today: We now have 90% of our scheduled hardware upgrades done. Some upgraded web servers to handle current load, a new content DB server, dual firewalls with automatic failover, new switches and gigabit ethernet cards for inter-server communication (we're crying over not being able to afford fibre) and new cases all round. I've also installed Port80 Software's HttpZip[^] in the hope of speeding things up for those with slower connections. PLEASE - any comments on caching issues or corrupt downloads please email me at chris@codeproject.com.. Tomorrow: We're moving to our new hosted facility that will provide us with redundant internet connections, backup power, fire, security and a nifty thumbprint scan doorway. We'll also be increasing our bandwidth capacity 10 fold and reducing the latency to the closest backbone. Should mean a nice increase in connection speed and no more bottlenecks at peak times. This will mean an outage tomorrow afternoon starting at around 1pm US Eastern Standard Time. In the works: A complete rewrite of the site. Better DB and caching utilisation, a move to Win2003 and IIS6, and increases in web, download and DB access all round. To be done: clustering of database servers and more web servers. Another mail server to handle the load. Further DB work and caching optimisations. Always happening: More servers. As many as we can afford. The pain over the past few months with slow load time, bandwidth bottlenecks, slow page access due to slow DB servers and outages caused by Things Beyond Our Control have been extremely frustrating to us and we're sure to our readers. We are working our bums off trying to improve access to CodeProject for everyone. cheers, Chris Maunder
Excellent! Keep up the great work! :-D
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Here's the latest on What's Going On: Yesterday: Someone stuck a back-hoe through one of the fibre cables of our main Telco in downtown Toronto. This affected connection times for us and many other businesses for many hours. We didn't even bother yelling at the appropriate people because they sounded stressed enough as it was. This has now been fixed. Done Today: We now have 90% of our scheduled hardware upgrades done. Some upgraded web servers to handle current load, a new content DB server, dual firewalls with automatic failover, new switches and gigabit ethernet cards for inter-server communication (we're crying over not being able to afford fibre) and new cases all round. I've also installed Port80 Software's HttpZip[^] in the hope of speeding things up for those with slower connections. PLEASE - any comments on caching issues or corrupt downloads please email me at chris@codeproject.com.. Tomorrow: We're moving to our new hosted facility that will provide us with redundant internet connections, backup power, fire, security and a nifty thumbprint scan doorway. We'll also be increasing our bandwidth capacity 10 fold and reducing the latency to the closest backbone. Should mean a nice increase in connection speed and no more bottlenecks at peak times. This will mean an outage tomorrow afternoon starting at around 1pm US Eastern Standard Time. In the works: A complete rewrite of the site. Better DB and caching utilisation, a move to Win2003 and IIS6, and increases in web, download and DB access all round. To be done: clustering of database servers and more web servers. Another mail server to handle the load. Further DB work and caching optimisations. Always happening: More servers. As many as we can afford. The pain over the past few months with slow load time, bandwidth bottlenecks, slow page access due to slow DB servers and outages caused by Things Beyond Our Control have been extremely frustrating to us and we're sure to our readers. We are working our bums off trying to improve access to CodeProject for everyone. cheers, Chris Maunder
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Here's the latest on What's Going On: Yesterday: Someone stuck a back-hoe through one of the fibre cables of our main Telco in downtown Toronto. This affected connection times for us and many other businesses for many hours. We didn't even bother yelling at the appropriate people because they sounded stressed enough as it was. This has now been fixed. Done Today: We now have 90% of our scheduled hardware upgrades done. Some upgraded web servers to handle current load, a new content DB server, dual firewalls with automatic failover, new switches and gigabit ethernet cards for inter-server communication (we're crying over not being able to afford fibre) and new cases all round. I've also installed Port80 Software's HttpZip[^] in the hope of speeding things up for those with slower connections. PLEASE - any comments on caching issues or corrupt downloads please email me at chris@codeproject.com.. Tomorrow: We're moving to our new hosted facility that will provide us with redundant internet connections, backup power, fire, security and a nifty thumbprint scan doorway. We'll also be increasing our bandwidth capacity 10 fold and reducing the latency to the closest backbone. Should mean a nice increase in connection speed and no more bottlenecks at peak times. This will mean an outage tomorrow afternoon starting at around 1pm US Eastern Standard Time. In the works: A complete rewrite of the site. Better DB and caching utilisation, a move to Win2003 and IIS6, and increases in web, download and DB access all round. To be done: clustering of database servers and more web servers. Another mail server to handle the load. Further DB work and caching optimisations. Always happening: More servers. As many as we can afford. The pain over the past few months with slow load time, bandwidth bottlenecks, slow page access due to slow DB servers and outages caused by Things Beyond Our Control have been extremely frustrating to us and we're sure to our readers. We are working our bums off trying to improve access to CodeProject for everyone. cheers, Chris Maunder
When you upgrade to IIS6, compressed HTTP streams are already "built-in" if you didn't know. You have to use a shell script to enable it in the metabase, but there's some easy step-by-step documents in Microsoft's KB about how to do this. Just seems better to have it handled by the product code than to use some third-party filter. Glad to see everything's coming along well! I suppose I'll have to do some real work tomorrow afternoon through the evening now, though. :((
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When you upgrade to IIS6, compressed HTTP streams are already "built-in" if you didn't know. You have to use a shell script to enable it in the metabase, but there's some easy step-by-step documents in Microsoft's KB about how to do this. Just seems better to have it handled by the product code than to use some third-party filter. Glad to see everything's coming along well! I suppose I'll have to do some real work tomorrow afternoon through the evening now, though. :((
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Heath Stewart wrote: compressed HTTP streams are already "built-in" Yep, and Port80 expressly recommends using the built in compression since II6 compression out of the box is better even than what they can provide. They have a product called ZipEnable that provides a GUI for the compression and caching setup in IIS 6 cheers, Chris Maunder
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Here's the latest on What's Going On: Yesterday: Someone stuck a back-hoe through one of the fibre cables of our main Telco in downtown Toronto. This affected connection times for us and many other businesses for many hours. We didn't even bother yelling at the appropriate people because they sounded stressed enough as it was. This has now been fixed. Done Today: We now have 90% of our scheduled hardware upgrades done. Some upgraded web servers to handle current load, a new content DB server, dual firewalls with automatic failover, new switches and gigabit ethernet cards for inter-server communication (we're crying over not being able to afford fibre) and new cases all round. I've also installed Port80 Software's HttpZip[^] in the hope of speeding things up for those with slower connections. PLEASE - any comments on caching issues or corrupt downloads please email me at chris@codeproject.com.. Tomorrow: We're moving to our new hosted facility that will provide us with redundant internet connections, backup power, fire, security and a nifty thumbprint scan doorway. We'll also be increasing our bandwidth capacity 10 fold and reducing the latency to the closest backbone. Should mean a nice increase in connection speed and no more bottlenecks at peak times. This will mean an outage tomorrow afternoon starting at around 1pm US Eastern Standard Time. In the works: A complete rewrite of the site. Better DB and caching utilisation, a move to Win2003 and IIS6, and increases in web, download and DB access all round. To be done: clustering of database servers and more web servers. Another mail server to handle the load. Further DB work and caching optimisations. Always happening: More servers. As many as we can afford. The pain over the past few months with slow load time, bandwidth bottlenecks, slow page access due to slow DB servers and outages caused by Things Beyond Our Control have been extremely frustrating to us and we're sure to our readers. We are working our bums off trying to improve access to CodeProject for everyone. cheers, Chris Maunder
What happened with the ASP.NET version of CodeProject, Chris? Rickard Andersson Here is my card, contact me later! UIN: 50302279 Sonork: 37318
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Heath Stewart wrote: compressed HTTP streams are already "built-in" Yep, and Port80 expressly recommends using the built in compression since II6 compression out of the box is better even than what they can provide. They have a product called ZipEnable that provides a GUI for the compression and caching setup in IIS 6 cheers, Chris Maunder
Glad to hear that! It's good when a company can admit better alternatives.
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Here's the latest on What's Going On: Yesterday: Someone stuck a back-hoe through one of the fibre cables of our main Telco in downtown Toronto. This affected connection times for us and many other businesses for many hours. We didn't even bother yelling at the appropriate people because they sounded stressed enough as it was. This has now been fixed. Done Today: We now have 90% of our scheduled hardware upgrades done. Some upgraded web servers to handle current load, a new content DB server, dual firewalls with automatic failover, new switches and gigabit ethernet cards for inter-server communication (we're crying over not being able to afford fibre) and new cases all round. I've also installed Port80 Software's HttpZip[^] in the hope of speeding things up for those with slower connections. PLEASE - any comments on caching issues or corrupt downloads please email me at chris@codeproject.com.. Tomorrow: We're moving to our new hosted facility that will provide us with redundant internet connections, backup power, fire, security and a nifty thumbprint scan doorway. We'll also be increasing our bandwidth capacity 10 fold and reducing the latency to the closest backbone. Should mean a nice increase in connection speed and no more bottlenecks at peak times. This will mean an outage tomorrow afternoon starting at around 1pm US Eastern Standard Time. In the works: A complete rewrite of the site. Better DB and caching utilisation, a move to Win2003 and IIS6, and increases in web, download and DB access all round. To be done: clustering of database servers and more web servers. Another mail server to handle the load. Further DB work and caching optimisations. Always happening: More servers. As many as we can afford. The pain over the past few months with slow load time, bandwidth bottlenecks, slow page access due to slow DB servers and outages caused by Things Beyond Our Control have been extremely frustrating to us and we're sure to our readers. We are working our bums off trying to improve access to CodeProject for everyone. cheers, Chris Maunder
Hi Chris, This may be my major technogeek side talking, but I once saw an article on Microsoft.com describing the "backoffice" of the microsoft website. The server farm, os, etc...they even had pics of the server room. Any chance we can get an article describing what the CP farm looks like from a server admin's point of view? The article on MS also had pages served, total content, bandwidth per day, etc. Basically all the geek info on what microsoft.com does. Cheers, and good luck on the upgrades. Frank "Keyboard Error - Press F1 to Continue"
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Hi Chris, This may be my major technogeek side talking, but I once saw an article on Microsoft.com describing the "backoffice" of the microsoft website. The server farm, os, etc...they even had pics of the server room. Any chance we can get an article describing what the CP farm looks like from a server admin's point of view? The article on MS also had pages served, total content, bandwidth per day, etc. Basically all the geek info on what microsoft.com does. Cheers, and good luck on the upgrades. Frank "Keyboard Error - Press F1 to Continue"
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Hi Chris, This may be my major technogeek side talking, but I once saw an article on Microsoft.com describing the "backoffice" of the microsoft website. The server farm, os, etc...they even had pics of the server room. Any chance we can get an article describing what the CP farm looks like from a server admin's point of view? The article on MS also had pages served, total content, bandwidth per day, etc. Basically all the geek info on what microsoft.com does. Cheers, and good luck on the upgrades. Frank "Keyboard Error - Press F1 to Continue"
Frank Deo wrote: The server farm, os, etc...they even had pics of the server room. This... especially the picture (scroll down)... looks rather out of date now... :laugh: How do you move in a world of fog, That's always changing things? Makes me wish that i could be a dog, When i see the price that you pay.
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Hi Chris, This may be my major technogeek side talking, but I once saw an article on Microsoft.com describing the "backoffice" of the microsoft website. The server farm, os, etc...they even had pics of the server room. Any chance we can get an article describing what the CP farm looks like from a server admin's point of view? The article on MS also had pages served, total content, bandwidth per day, etc. Basically all the geek info on what microsoft.com does. Cheers, and good luck on the upgrades. Frank "Keyboard Error - Press F1 to Continue"
Yep - I'll definitely do a write up like that. For the moment, puzzle over this. cheers, Chris Maunder
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Yep - I'll definitely do a write up like that. For the moment, puzzle over this. cheers, Chris Maunder
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Yep - I'll definitely do a write up like that. For the moment, puzzle over this. cheers, Chris Maunder
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Hi Chris, This may be my major technogeek side talking, but I once saw an article on Microsoft.com describing the "backoffice" of the microsoft website. The server farm, os, etc...they even had pics of the server room. Any chance we can get an article describing what the CP farm looks like from a server admin's point of view? The article on MS also had pages served, total content, bandwidth per day, etc. Basically all the geek info on what microsoft.com does. Cheers, and good luck on the upgrades. Frank "Keyboard Error - Press F1 to Continue"
Frank Deo wrote: I once saw an article on Microsoft.com describing the "backoffice" of the microsoft website. The server farm, os, etc...they even had pics of the server room. http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/archives.htm[^] I would love to see the CP's backstage. All we have now is this[^] and this[^]
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Java in 21 Days?!? What?!? :wtf:
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Here's the latest on What's Going On: Yesterday: Someone stuck a back-hoe through one of the fibre cables of our main Telco in downtown Toronto. This affected connection times for us and many other businesses for many hours. We didn't even bother yelling at the appropriate people because they sounded stressed enough as it was. This has now been fixed. Done Today: We now have 90% of our scheduled hardware upgrades done. Some upgraded web servers to handle current load, a new content DB server, dual firewalls with automatic failover, new switches and gigabit ethernet cards for inter-server communication (we're crying over not being able to afford fibre) and new cases all round. I've also installed Port80 Software's HttpZip[^] in the hope of speeding things up for those with slower connections. PLEASE - any comments on caching issues or corrupt downloads please email me at chris@codeproject.com.. Tomorrow: We're moving to our new hosted facility that will provide us with redundant internet connections, backup power, fire, security and a nifty thumbprint scan doorway. We'll also be increasing our bandwidth capacity 10 fold and reducing the latency to the closest backbone. Should mean a nice increase in connection speed and no more bottlenecks at peak times. This will mean an outage tomorrow afternoon starting at around 1pm US Eastern Standard Time. In the works: A complete rewrite of the site. Better DB and caching utilisation, a move to Win2003 and IIS6, and increases in web, download and DB access all round. To be done: clustering of database servers and more web servers. Another mail server to handle the load. Further DB work and caching optimisations. Always happening: More servers. As many as we can afford. The pain over the past few months with slow load time, bandwidth bottlenecks, slow page access due to slow DB servers and outages caused by Things Beyond Our Control have been extremely frustrating to us and we're sure to our readers. We are working our bums off trying to improve access to CodeProject for everyone. cheers, Chris Maunder
Bravo, Chris, et al!!! And continuing thanks!:-D Chris Maunder wrote: Someone stuck a back-hoe through one of the fibre cables of our main Telco in downtown Toronto. We suffered the equivalent a few years ago at the Ace where I was employed - a 2500-pair line between two retail locations dependent upon a single server. I wasn't pretty, and guess who's fault it was as far as management was concerned? Yup, li'l ol' me. The backhoe operator was none other than the telco's own.:doh: Chris Maunder wrote: a nifty thumbprint scan doorway Gotta get me one of those...:cool: Will Build Nuclear Missile For Food - No Target Too Small
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Java in 21 Days?!? What?!? :wtf:
Jon Sagara Vegetarianism is unhealthy. Humans need protein, and lots of it. Put down those sprouts and pick up a T-bone! -- Michael Moore
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Yep - I'll definitely do a write up like that. For the moment, puzzle over this. cheers, Chris Maunder
Java? JAVA??!? :wtf: Unless it's being used as a paperweight, in which case it's ok ;) --Mike-- Personal stuff:: Ericahist | Homepage Shareware stuff:: 1ClickPicGrabber | RightClick-Encrypt CP stuff:: CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | C++ Forum FAQ ---- Kosh reminded me of some of the prima-donna programmers I've worked with. Knew everything but when you asked them a question; never gave you a straight answer. -- Michael P. Butler in the Lounge
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Java in 21 Days?!? What?!? :wtf:
Jon Sagara Vegetarianism is unhealthy. Humans need protein, and lots of it. Put down those sprouts and pick up a T-bone! -- Michael Moore
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Here's the latest on What's Going On: Yesterday: Someone stuck a back-hoe through one of the fibre cables of our main Telco in downtown Toronto. This affected connection times for us and many other businesses for many hours. We didn't even bother yelling at the appropriate people because they sounded stressed enough as it was. This has now been fixed. Done Today: We now have 90% of our scheduled hardware upgrades done. Some upgraded web servers to handle current load, a new content DB server, dual firewalls with automatic failover, new switches and gigabit ethernet cards for inter-server communication (we're crying over not being able to afford fibre) and new cases all round. I've also installed Port80 Software's HttpZip[^] in the hope of speeding things up for those with slower connections. PLEASE - any comments on caching issues or corrupt downloads please email me at chris@codeproject.com.. Tomorrow: We're moving to our new hosted facility that will provide us with redundant internet connections, backup power, fire, security and a nifty thumbprint scan doorway. We'll also be increasing our bandwidth capacity 10 fold and reducing the latency to the closest backbone. Should mean a nice increase in connection speed and no more bottlenecks at peak times. This will mean an outage tomorrow afternoon starting at around 1pm US Eastern Standard Time. In the works: A complete rewrite of the site. Better DB and caching utilisation, a move to Win2003 and IIS6, and increases in web, download and DB access all round. To be done: clustering of database servers and more web servers. Another mail server to handle the load. Further DB work and caching optimisations. Always happening: More servers. As many as we can afford. The pain over the past few months with slow load time, bandwidth bottlenecks, slow page access due to slow DB servers and outages caused by Things Beyond Our Control have been extremely frustrating to us and we're sure to our readers. We are working our bums off trying to improve access to CodeProject for everyone. cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris, You should consider setting up a "donation fund" for stuff like this. There are many of us who dont have the $$$ for .NET or MSDN, but can surley throw down $20 or more to support our site! Maybe even offer a minimum donation level for "supporter" status, or different levels of "supporter" status... Just a thought. ~Nitron.
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