Digiweb

Hobbes

So is search coming back then?

Asok

/me gets some rubber gloves......

DEPLOY THE REGI POKER!

Cloud

I think we need to see if search could be brought back with a move to vB 3.6 (which can allow better restrictions on searching anyway).

zAbbo

Have fun upgrading to 3.6 no easy task considering the amount of customisation here

David Michael

Hi,

Can I ask a tech question?

I remember reading a while back that you moved from 365 to digiweb and being non tech inclined to a degree I was wondering what was "that" benifit? Obviously there was one but servers/connections etc how did it help? What is it that digiweb have/provide?

Sorry for being nosey! it is not like 365 hostings was some blokes garage with a decentconnection if you get me.

/runs off probably to web hosting forum for answer....

Sierra Oscar

Are we upgrading to VB 3.6.x?!

Woot!

Time Magazine

David Michael wrote:

Sorry for being nosey! it is not like 365 hostings was some blokes garage with a decentconnection if you get me.

I'm in no position to answer for anyone on this, but going by the speed of Boards since, it seems they went to a garage with a bigger pipe.

Blowfish

David Michael wrote:

I remember reading a while back that you moved from 365 to digiweb and being non tech inclined to a degree I was wondering what was "that" benifit? Obviously there was one but servers/connections etc how did it help? What is it that digiweb have/provide?

Sorry for being nosey! it is not like 365 hostings was some blokes garage with a decentconnection if you get me.

/runs off probably to web hosting forum for answer....

Theres an add at the top that appears every now and again, it's a link to the digiweb site with a basic description by Vexorg (one of the admins) as to why they switched.

AFAIR it came down to - boards.ie is big - it was getting a bit slow - a good deal was set up with digiweb - now it's faster - we don't regret it.

RuggieBear

David Michael wrote:

Hi,

Can I ask a tech question?

I remember reading a while back that you moved from 365 to digiweb and being non tech inclined to a degree I was wondering what was "that" benifit? Obviously there was one but servers/connections etc how did it help? What is it that digiweb have/provide?

Sorry for being nosey! it is not like 365 hostings was some blokes garage with a decentconnection if you get me.

/runs off probably to web hosting forum for answer....

Digiweb provides employment...

Doodee

digiweb uses advanced carrier pigeon packet protocol vs Snail on a slide packet switching


sorry for being so technical

David Michael

Doodee wrote:

digiweb uses advanced carrier pigeon packet protocol vs Snail on a slide packet switching


sorry for being so technical

i don't understand

Blowfish

The link is here. Doesn't actually say that much, but it's all they have said so far.

Sierra Oscar

So when did we switch over?

steve-hosting36

To be fair, we probably have as much if not more capacity than digiweb. The move was entirely down to a few admins working at digiweb, not technical reasons whatsoever (as confirmed by the admin's posts).

Things feel faster now as more servers have been added to the cluster. 365 was not responsible for boards hardware (only colocation (power and connectivity)

After nearly 5 years of rock solid service, I would take exception to any implication that 365 were in any way inferior - we are, after all, a specialist hosting company and boards decision to move was not based on performance or technical reasons.

Hope that helps clear that up.

Shiminay

In fairness to Steve and all at 365 the speed issues were always hardware related and we've been told that I don't know how many times by the admins through various posts made on this very board.

The hosting division at Digiweb is run by a man who happens to have the online alter-ego of Regi. Draw from that what you will...

Beruthiel

Cloud wrote:

I think we need to see if search could be brought back with a move to vB 3.6 (which can allow better restrictions on searching anyway).

John
It would be very nice if you brought it back for the smods so we can kill all spammy threads in one blast.
purdy please

OTK

um, did some of the admins change job from hosting-365 to digiweb?

Boston

steve-hosting36 wrote:

To be fair, we probably have as much if not more capacity than digiweb. The move was entirely down to a few admins working at digiweb, not technical reasons whatsoever (as confirmed by the admin's posts).

Things feel faster now as more servers have been added to the cluster. 365 was not responsible for boards hardware (only colocation (power and connectivity)

After nearly 5 years of rock solid service, I would take exception to any implication that 365 were in any way inferior - we are, after all, a specialist hosting company and boards decision to move was not based on performance or technical reasons.

Hope that helps clear that up.

The above is true and accurate. There was new hardware added to the server cluster that increased performance.

zAbbo

Would they not of just added the new hardware beforehand ? or at any time during the previous year or so when performance was slipping.

I don't know, maybe the Digiweb data-centre has more jellowatts or whatever servers run on.

Either way, It's been lovely and fast for me since the move-over.

Well played guys

Boston

zabbo wrote:

Would they not of just added the new hardware beforehand ? or at any time during the previous year or so when performance was slipping.

You have to buy it before you can add it, and you have to have the money before you can buy it. It's no a simple "performance is slipping, bang in another stick of ram". Performance went up when the new server came online, none of the admins mentioned digiWeb at the time from what I remember. Also I don't think the admins have ever claimed that performance problems where due to a lack a bandwidth. Search is off because it's heavy on CPU resources.

zAbbo

I didn't mentioned bandwidth, but since you did, maybe Digiweb would be at an advantage as they are an ISP ?

New Hardware would require additional capacity, and everything that goes with it, power, cooling etc.

The quote on digiwebs website

The solution was a newly built cluster of load-balanced webservers connected to a private database network. This provides boards.ie with a scalable model to grow capacity as traffic grows and the peace of mind that goes with it.

Sounds decent

Boston

zabbo wrote:

I didn't mentioned bandwidth, but since you did, maybe Digiweb would be at an advantage as they are an ISP ?

New Hardware would require additional capacity, and everything that goes with it, power, cooling etc.

The quote on digiwebs website

Sounds decent

True you didn't mention bandwidth, you mentioned "jellowatts or whatever servers run on.". Being and ISP or not shouldn't come into it. This is a hosting service.

The solution was a newly built cluster of load-balanced webservers connected to a private database network. This provides boards.ie with a scalable model to grow capacity as traffic grows and the peace of mind that goes with it.

Thats a pretty good reason to switch if Hostings 365 wasn't able to provide this type of hardware support.

zAbbo

Boston wrote:

True you didn't mention bandwidth, you mentioned "jellowatts or whatever servers run on.". Being and ISP or not shouldn't come into it. This is a hosting service.

But an ISP would have the inside track on bandwidth, and could utilise idle capacity.

Boston

zabbo wrote:

But an ISP would have the inside track on bandwidth, and could utilise idle capacity.

What makes you think theres an inside track. ISP's use bandwidth Hosting services use bandwidth. Digiweb buys it's capacity on international networks and irish networks in the same fashion Hosting365 does. By your logic Eircom should be the best hostings provider in ireland. Simply not the case (do they even have a commerical hostings service?)

zAbbo

They could prolly utilise it better, As for Eircom, well thats another story

Back on track, an upgrade to 3.6 and the return of the search feature would be great, some of the 3.6 features would make moderation so much easier. Infractions ftw

Sparky

I assumed we moved purely so that regi can poke the servers easily.

meh

BuffyBot

Can we have the archive back too?

David Michael

steve-hosting36 wrote:

To be fair, we probably have as much if not more capacity than digiweb. The move was entirely down to a few admins working at digiweb, not technical reasons whatsoever (as confirmed by the admin's posts).

Things feel faster now as more servers have been added to the cluster. 365 was not responsible for boards hardware (only colocation (power and connectivity)

After nearly 5 years of rock solid service, I would take exception to any implication that 365 were in any way inferior - we are, after all, a specialist hosting company and boards decision to move was not based on performance or technical reasons.

Hope that helps clear that up.

Cheers Steve. You answered my question. Not being tech inclinded I would have thought most of you guys were fairly even.

Basically it just so happens the move/new tech/improvement happened at the same time.

Hobbes

Spanky-s wrote:

I assumed we moved purely so that regi can poke the servers easily.

meh

By poking you mean making love to the servers as its like making love to everyone on boards at the same time.

Amz

I hate you Hobbes *cry*

po0k

mmm, SAS backplane

We spinnin bitch, we spinininin'!