eGO "Servers" and "Boxes"

[ScrappyDoo]

Often, in our general Q/A's and Meetings, I often hear members ask about eGO "servers". There's often confusion on what a server is, especially for those who do not work in I/T, and why these servers cost so much.

Throw in terms of "boxes" and "instances", and it gets even more complex.
Maybe some pictures would help?

Earlier this year, eGO's servers ran from this data center:

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However, after much pleading, the Leadership team has finally convinced JohnT to upgrade eGO's servers to be hosted at a place like this:

More pictures (supposedly) from SoftLayer, [ame]http://www.flickr.com/photos/wirenine/395678447/in/photostream/[/ame].



How many "servers" (instances) do you think are in the picture from the data center?




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[LiQuiDSiLk]

WOW! I could only imagine all the problems the data center had. Way to go Leadership :thumbup: I am and will continue to do what I can when I can to keep this illustrious community going.
eGO is the best out there and we need to keep that going. I know that not alot of players are old enough to have jobs or be able to donate lots of money. If we could get players to donate a dime($0.10), that would help out a ton. We have thousands of player\members. A dime would add up quickly. But that is just a thought that is out there.

 

[Darkshade]

Woah that first one must have been so hard! Nice job on upgrading it leadership!

 

[HazeUk]

Goodjob

 

[GBear]

Very nice! I love the layout of that server room hehe. Looks so cool.

 

[Cut Chem!st]

I'm likin the ductape on the first picture, it fixes everything

 

[Adam]

If the second picture was ours, we'd have more than 13 TF2 servers

 

[Strike xX]

This shows why it's important the community donates to help the leadership and JohnT to keep the servers running and keep the "Data Center" out of his closet.

 

[.:cake:.]

hahaha RESPAWN's april fools post xD

 

[Jubei]

I'm thinking a box in this case is an actual computer (in the rack) that is capable of running more than one instance or "server" (ie game or map). So Black Mesa would be one instance and 2fort would be another - they may or may not be on the same box.

And yes, we've seen that first pic before. I'll bet some clans do have something like that.

 

[Born to Pwn]

hahaha RESPAWN's april fools post xD

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[Passerby]

ya actually most server setup's are virtualized on a single box so you would have the host computer with xen or vmware server than have a bunch of setup running in vm's on the host.

 

[NCA]

Back in 2006, eGO had humble beginnings:

JohnT never had trouble heating the bathroom during the cold winter months.

 

[Ducttape]

Back in 2006, eGO had humble beginnings:

JohnT never had trouble heating the bathroom during the cold winter months.

lol, he never said, "I'm flushing the toilet", just "I'm taking care of some punks."

 

[!Woodstock!]

In the data center pic: How many miles of cables are running in that place?

@NCA - That looks like a Tryk setup to me.

 

[LightHunter]

I bet theres a few rats and whatnot behind that datacenter with lots and lots of JohnT's leftover ninja cookies.

 

[Azn_Master]

!up Leadership and ComM

 

[reflex99]

the one on the far left is the CSS division you can tell by the tape

new servers are sooooo shiny

 

[mrcool]

If the second picture was ours, we'd have more than 13 TF2 servers

Hmmm.... I'm pretty sure you realize we're renting some of those, not all, or our (server) bill would be much > $2000/mo. :O