TAC Note: Annual Sponsorship of October at stats.free-dc.org

[Rudy Toody]

From stats.free-dc.org

8th June: After hours of trying, I found that the SATA controller on the webserver mobo was dying, ended up gutting an older machine and putting the webserver onto that. This is temporary though as it can't take enough Ram. I'm looking into getting a replacement mobo/cpu that will take 16Gb+ Ram. Had a bunch of donations so far which is going to help. If anyone else would like to help out, please consider using the donation link on the left bar here

This will be our 5th straight year of sponsoring the month of October on stats.free-dc.org and I would like to move the fund drive (which normally occurs in September) up a bit to help them purchase a new webserver.

We will still be the October sponsor to keep our string alive

Please go to and click on PayPal at bottom left.

 

[petrusbroder]

20 USD donated for a very worthy cause.

 

[biodoc]

Donated!

 

[Rudy Toody]

June 16th: Update on replacement server. Thankyou all for the donations, I got $560 in the end. I ended up paying an extra $100 or so and got a Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 motherboard with an Intel 2600K and 16Gb GSkill Ram. I actually plan for this to be he new *database* server as it will boost the speed somewhat. Now that I'm doing a test install though, it actually has SATA 3 capability and the thought of using 2x120Gb SATA3 SSD's is tempting as I do a lot of custom database replication, moving around 40Gb of data for almost every update. However the OCZ vertex 3 drives are $270 each at Newegg. I can probably come up with $200 or so. I'll benchmark it all and see what happens and if not I'll just put in the current drives. (Then use the db server components as the new webserver). Thank you all for the continued support. Bok

We have helped a little bit! We will keep this thread active to encourage more donations for our October sponsorship and to help Bok regain some sense of normalcy to the stats site.

Thanks for everything so far! :thumbsup:

 

[Rudy Toody]

When I bump this thread, does it wobble?

 

[petrusbroder]

When I wobble this thread, why does it bump to the top?

 

[Rudy Toody]

If we could bump the wobble just right, it would precess. Then this thread would have seasons.

 

[rabrittain]

Donated!
::thumbsup

 

[Rudy Toody]

Donated!
::thumbsup

One colon at each end of thumbsup will do the trick.

Thanks to all the donors so far.

 

[Rudy Toody]

Next week I will check with Bok to determine if we have met our goal.

Thanks to all the donors so far.