Where do you live?

What region do you live in?

  • US - Northeast

    Votes: 31 27.7%

  • US - Mid-Atlantic

    Votes: 16 14.3%

  • US- Southeast

    Votes: 19 17.0%

  • US - South Central

    Votes: 10 8.9%

  • US - North Central

    Votes: 3 2.7%

  • US - Central Rockies

    Votes: 6 5.4%

  • US - Northwest

    Votes: 14 12.5%

  • US - Southwest

    Votes: 8 7.1%

  • Canada - East

    Votes: 3 2.7%

  • Canada - West

    Votes: 2 1.8%
  • Total voters
    112
chris snell

chris snell

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I am looking at locations and trying to figure out where to put the new NAS-ROW servers. I want to get an idea where our regulars live, generally speaking. Unfortunately, I ran out of options on the poll, so there is no EMEA, LATAM, or APAC choices.

More than likely, I will try to get space in a Dallas datacenter but I have a feeling that we are mostly East Coast people so maybe that makes more sense. Right now, the site lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, which is probably not the NAS-ROW epicenter.
 
xplorutah

xplorutah

Well-known member
Well I think only the southern part of UT is considered the SW, and I am in the northern part so does that make me Central Rockies? Put me down for whatever Ben L. decided he was. LOL!
 
UnfrozenCaveman

UnfrozenCaveman

Well-known member
chris snell said:
LOL, that's about as geographically center as it gets.
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We do have a nice new Microsoft server farm building just west of town here ... I have no idea if that means anything other then the fact that they gave the city a boatload of $$ for an interstate off / on ramp and a nice road to their site.
 
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Adam

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Are you buying actual hardware to colocate somewhere, or using some sort of IaaS cloud provider?
 
chris snell

chris snell

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Callsign: NW5W
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Adam said:
Are you buying actual hardware to colocate somewhere, or using some sort of IaaS cloud provider?
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At this point, I'm not sure. Ideally, I would love to colocate because I'm confident in my ability to run a tight ship (I'm a SRE by day) But, colo is expensive. We were able to raise enough with our drive to cover about a year and a half of public cloud costs, which is fantastic.

Colo would be much more expensive and I'm not sure that we would see much of a benefit, with the exception of being able to move the Elasticsearch server out of my house and into a real data center. That server powers the search here and on DWeb and search breaks every time my house internet goes down, like it did this morning when I tripped the GFCI when I unplugged my truck's sump heater.
 
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Adam

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As they say about free software - it's only free as long as your time is of no value... Same goes for running shit at a 1:1 ratio that other people have automated and run at 1:25000 (swag of cloud provider admin:server ratios)

I'm sure most of this could be moved to *aaS for significantly fewer dollars and time. But I get wanting to run stuff for the fun of it.
 
chris snell

chris snell

Administrator
Callsign: NW5W
Staff member
Adam said:
As they say about free software - it's only free as long as your time is of no value... Same goes for running shit at a 1:1 ratio that other people have automated and run at 1:25000 (swag of cloud provider admin:server ratios)

I'm sure most of this could be moved to *aaS for significantly fewer dollars and time. But I get wanting to run stuff for the fun of it.
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There are providers offering Xenforo or generic PHP hosting but it is dog shit. They are piling you on virtualhosted shared infrastructure and shared database servers and the performance is awful. For our software, you're better off hosting your own if you have the knowledge.

At work, I build infrastructure exclusively with code and manage many hundreds of components. These sites here are a little different. It's possible to build them like I would at my day job but unless you're one of the companies that owns a ton of forums, there is little reason to. This site runs happily on a small public cloud footprint. I hardly ever have to touch the boxes except for occasional upgrades.

The real effort in running a forum is fighting the never-ending onslaught of spammers who register and want to fill the boards with crap. This take time to deal with everyday and no amount of countermeasures will keep them out.
 
erover82

erover82

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chris snell said:
That server powers the search here and on DWeb and search breaks every time my house internet goes down, like it did this morning when I tripped the GFCI when I unplugged my truck's sump heater.
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I'll donate a 40kW UPS taking up space in my warehouse, but it's local pickup only, and scores a low WAF.
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rocky

rocky

NAS-ROW Addict
chris snell said:
The real effort in running a forum is fighting the never-ending onslaught of spammers who register and want to fill the boards with crap. This take time to deal with everyday and no amount of countermeasures will keep them out.
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I've had admin rolls on a couple of forums. Down to one. All the spammers and attempted spammers are a PIA.....
 
chris snell

chris snell

Administrator
Callsign: NW5W
Staff member
I think it's funny that most of us our in the Northeast. No wonder so many of our trucks are rusty pieces of shit. Why aren't there more owners in the Southwest?
 
WreckITFrank

WreckITFrank

Technical Excellence Contributor
Post up any gear you ever might be after. I am part of the business that disposes quite a bit of hardware, and we pay dearly for it. We also own a web hosting business, so I can see if we can get some good pricing if needed. PM if needed.
 
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Adam

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WreckITFrank said:
Post up any gear you ever might be after. I am part of the business that disposes quite a bit of hardware, and we pay dearly for it. We also own a web hosting business, so I can see if we can get some good pricing if needed. PM if needed.
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road trip! Im always hungry for cast off enterprise it hardware.
 
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