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Dear visitor and user of BOINCstats. It's that time again where I ask for your (financial) help :).
BOINCstats has grown over the years, many things have changed, we added a separate webserver, we joined forces with Primegrid, last year we upgraded our hosting to our own rack, and we created many many stats. But one thing never changed. One proud server was always there. It was the BOINCstats webserver, then it also hosted Primegrid, and after adding the server for Primegrid and the BOINCstats webserver it became the backbone of the stats: it runs all the updates and prepares the stats for the webserver.
But all good things come to an end sometime. Lately the database server has been struggling, it became unstable. It's also getting slow because users and hosts keep increasing, but the server can no longer be upgraded.
So, it's time to replace it....
The parts for the server have been ordered, but you can understand that it's not a €250 budget computer. So I'll say it quickly so it won't seem that much: we need €2000.
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Thank you very much for your support!
Willy.
Considering the amount that I use Willy's site, and have done so for free for so many years, I made a donation towards his new equipment. Seems a lot of people in throughout the world are also in the same boat, on last check 52.5% of the server has been paid for already. :thumbsup:
Quote from: BF on June 20, 2009, 10:23:05 AMThe parts for the server have been ordered, but you can understand that it's not a €250 budget computer. So I'll say it quickly so it won't seem that much: we need €2000.
I don't know Willy but I think €2000 is still a budget server..... Maybe I should quote him!? :rofl: I got one Dell PowerEdge 2950 with 2x Dual Core, 8GB RAM, 4x146GB SAS Hard drives with two Terrabytes of bandwidth only $700 a month (once software is added) plus my markup (see previous post by Fuzzy). :yahoo:
I must send poor Willy some cash again. :sg1:
By the way, If Willy is still in the same data centre that would be a great saving for him. The place he was using about 12 months ago charged like wounded bull!
Ditto. Seems like a lot of others did too.