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Title: !TTM!/-)DL)- Plans for the near future
Post by: !TTM!HeadUK on September 22, 2017, 08:27:24 AM
During the next couple of months or so, Shane intends setting up and running his and our website and certain game servers from his home in Hampshire via a dedicated server :).  That will of course save us the expense of renting our current servers from people like Gaming Deluxe and Multiplay, and give us to freedom to add or remove games as and when requested :).

I'll be donating the workstation/server to enable us to do this, and Shane will be traveling to my home in Newport to collect the beastly machine as soon as his car is fixed ;D.  The only down side myself and Shane can foresee at this moment, is that all game servers and maybe other IP addresses will obviously change. Any questions relating to our intended plan can be posted here, and myself or Shane will do our best to answer those questions :).

Specifications for the workstation/server are as follows:
Two Xeon 2.6Ghz hex core cpu's. 24 cores in total.
64GB 1600 DDR3 ECC memory (board will take up to 196GB).
Supermicro  X8DTH-6F motherboard with 7 PCIe slots.
Corsair 250 gig SSD drive
ATI Sapphire Toxic edition R9 270 2GB GDDR5 graphics card.
EVGA Gold 750Watt PSU.
Two corsair 110i water cooling systems, both with double radiators and double fans. 
Corsair Cube case.
USB 3.1 and USB C 10Gbs PCIe card.

Over the next couple of days I'll try and get my hands on a decent size Hard drive for the workstation :).

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Title: Re: !TTM!/-)DL(- Plans for the near future
Post by: !TTM!DonPietro 比利 on September 22, 2017, 08:40:53 AM
Very wise decision - thanks Shane mate for the help and Rob for donating the machine to make it happen :D what a beast of a computer that is hahaaha - if needed, i have 4 spare 1 tb hdd's and a few 500gb ones, your welcome to them if needed, just give me address and they'll be sent through.
Title: Re: !TTM!/-)DL)- Plans for the near future
Post by: !TTM!HeadUK on September 22, 2017, 08:55:40 AM
Thanks very much for the offer of the hard drives Billy, so wait until Shane see's this post and let's us know if they will be needed. I can only assume there will be a need to run each server on a separate hard drive?, but only Shane can answer that question lol as i'm too thick for technical stuff like that ;D. 
Title: Re: !TTM!/-)DL)- Plans for the near future
Post by: !TTM!DonPietro 比利 on September 22, 2017, 09:14:44 AM
No problem mate - Hahahaha I'm the same, I have no idea with stuff like that lol like another bloody language  :o
Title: Re: !TTM!/-)DL)- Plans for the near future
Post by: -)DL(-Shane on September 22, 2017, 02:13:04 PM
hey guys,

i hope to get this up and running soon as i get my car back on the road ..... (waiting for my engine to be sent back from scotland where it is meant to be being rebuilt)  ..... the more storage space the better as its surprising how much room is taken up by a few games

i have been running a few test servers over the last month or 2 and they seem to run really well other than my dynamic DNS checking the ip every 4 weeks  .... but i will look into getting a business internet account for a static IP

anyway when we change over there maybe a short downtime of the websites / servers while i set it all up
Title: Re: !TTM!/-)DL)- Plans for the near future
Post by: !TTM!DonPietro 比利 on September 22, 2017, 03:23:21 PM
Downtime is fine Shane, do what you need to do mate when you can :) - I'm sending rob some stuff so will send  him the 4 1tb hdd's so when you pick the pc up you will have them there as well :)
Title: Re: !TTM!/-)DL)- Plans for the near future
Post by: !TTM!HeadUK on September 22, 2017, 03:51:59 PM
There's not a lot of space for 3.5 inch hard drives in the base of the corsair case, but there's ample space for six or more 2.5 laptop drives in the back section of the case. I managed to acquire five 80 gig sata laptop drives from a source today, plus I got about 6 more varied size ones in my flat somewhere. I'm sure we will have enough drives to get us on our way :).

Oooh and I still got Shane's Toshiba laptop in my flat which has been there for about 18 months or maybe longer, so I'll be glad to see the back of that ha ha  ;D ;D ;D.
Title: Re: !TTM!/-)DL)- Plans for the near future
Post by: !TTM!SNeeKYp on September 22, 2017, 05:18:17 PM
Sound like you're having fun, good stuff  ;)
Title: Re: !TTM!/-)DL)- Plans for the near future
Post by: -)DL(-Shane on November 16, 2017, 09:24:24 PM
i have added some servers for you to try out

please let me know if anything needs to be changed
Title: Re: !TTM!/-)DL)- Plans for the near future
Post by: !TTM!DonPietro 比利 on November 16, 2017, 10:07:16 PM
Wow nice one Shane.
Title: Re: !TTM!/-)DL(- Plans for the near future
Post by: -)DL(-Shane on November 16, 2017, 10:31:20 PM
can someone jump on waw and test it as i havent got it installed at the min
Title: Re: !TTM!/-)DL)- Plans for the near future
Post by: !TTM!SNeeKYp on November 17, 2017, 02:06:32 PM
I've not got it at the mo either  :(
Title: Re: !TTM!/-)DL)- Plans for the near future
Post by: !TTM!HeadUK on November 18, 2017, 10:20:17 PM
I've added the server to my favorites and its showing in my list, but every time i try to join the server it times out :(. I've looked at the server info which is showing it as being online, but keeps timing out on me boo hoo ;D.   
Title: Re: !TTM!/-)DL)- Plans for the near future
Post by: !TTM!slasher on November 19, 2017, 09:17:14 AM
i was in the waw server yesterday seemed fine to me rob :-) the only time it timed out was wen it was offline
Title: Re: !TTM!/-)DL)- Plans for the near future
Post by: !TTM!HeadUK on November 19, 2017, 09:36:04 AM
I was referring to our two new W.AW servers on our dedi in my last post Andy. The GamingDeluxe W.A.W server was online and had 7 players on it last night, yet our servers kept timing out for some reason. I intended testing out our servers last night, but ended up playing on the one that was online.  There's going be times whilst Shane is configuring the dedi that's its going to be offline for short periods, so that's something we will have to except for a little while :).
   
Title: Re: !TTM!/-)DL)- Plans for the near future
Post by: !TTM!HeadUK on November 19, 2017, 12:24:32 PM
Shane informs me he's uninstalled server 2012 due to problems accessing the new servers via remote desktop, so he's now installing windows 10 and the servers again. Hence why they are offline at the moment sorry.
Title: Re: !TTM!/-)DL)- Plans for the near future
Post by: !TTM!slasher on November 19, 2017, 04:46:39 PM
that's np at at all rob :-)
Title: Re: !TTM!/-)DL)- Plans for the near future
Post by: !TTM!DonPietro 比利 on November 19, 2017, 05:47:25 PM
All trial and error to get it right im guessing :) thanks for your hard work Shane mate.