HQ Network: Server Upgrades Coming Very Soon! :)

Hi all,

Just thought id let you all know that since we are expanding so much we really have needed to purchase additional ram and now even move to newer server with larger pipes.

As you already know the site runs just fine with sometimes over 2000+ users online and thats just the xbox site and not any of the other sites like aid, 360 or the new pc-hq.com site..

Our hosts tweakedhosting.com and I (forahobby) are going overboard and spending some $$$ to improve the server again but this time we are moving everything to a brand new box and it certainly needs it..

We have been averaging around 2000 user(s) online at once just on xbox-hq.com so we both agree its going to be money well spent.. Now as always.. I dont like to ask for handouts.. But anything anyone can do to help with our ongoing costs please do.. Whether it be prizes for competitions, a donation or just some of your time to help.. It will be totally appreciated and help keep our community growing for many years to come.

Here some detailed info on the upgrades:
This new server is a Dual Core Xeon 3.0 Ghz with Dual 2mb Level 2 cache. That alone rocks. We're talking and easy 3 times better than the server the HQ network is currently on, plus the RAM is better. The current server is using DDR ECC 333Mhz and this better server is using DDR ECC 667 MHz chips. Also the SATA drives are better. The current server has SATA 150MB a second drives and this new server has SATA II 300MB a second drives. In every way this is an improvement.

Oh I forgot to mention another breakthrough! This server has 1000mbit connection to 1000mbit cisco to 12x Fiber internet.

The current HQ Network server is 100mbit shared to our other servers on 12x 1000mbit to internet. This will rock for the HQ Network sites! Our host tweaked will even up our data transfer too.We really believe the HQ network sites are going to triple in visitor volume by the fall so we need to take this action now. This month xbox-hq has used almost 500GB bandwidth already. It is really smoking guys.


About future downtime:
So, You may notice in the next few days or weeks that a temporary page will be displayed.. This just means the update is in progress. We dont have a accurate time for the update to be complete due to the size of the HQ network and all the data we have.

Currently we are using well over 500-600TB of bandwidth per month (sometimes more, sometimes less) and personally i agree with our host and think its a good move for the future of our ever expanding family. Thats not even counting all our external servers.. My god.. :) lol

Leave your thoughts.. Hope you like all the work ive been puting in.

And.. btw.. pc-hq.com will be LIVE and ready to login in the next few hrs..
Check it out when its working

New PC-HQ.Com Website opens soon:
http://www.pc-hq.com

thanks for reading.. Feel free to comment.

hobbs
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