Are we faster or slower, now we've moved to Canada?

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:01 am

First of all, some self-congratulating is in order. We have worked feverishly to get our double-sized cluster during the few days of downtime from Jan. 16 to Jan. 22, with a more complicated multi-homed network setup. There are still some server stability issues left that's kernel/driver related, but all servers are humming nicely, most of the time.

I've alluded to our hardware cost at ~$40,000. I'll quote some numbers in terms of processing power for those of you that asked. Our cluster has a total of 34 Opteron cores, 70 GB in ram, and 30 hard drives ranging from SATAs to 15k rpm SCSIs. Why all the hardware? Because our search index have almost doubled in size since June when I did the CBC interview. That's at a rate of doubling every 9 months, from both the growth of BitTorrent use and isoHunt's improved indexing. And Moore's Law is only double every 18 months.

A few thanks to the people who have made this move/upgrade possible. SecretSquirrel, our chief of operations who have assembled the hardware and setup most of the cluster, robbat2, our Gentoo Linux mad scientist, and Spike, our new tech and hand at the datacenter. And thank you again for the generous donations you made while we were down.

Now, back to the title of this post. Do you find isohunt.com, torrentbox.com and podtropolis.com faster or slower, after our move to our new cluster in Canada? Just a subjective measure from you, in terms of page loading responsiveness. I'm curious. Wink

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:49 am

The torrent search results return is fast as is the forum navigation, even with multiple tabs open. The only question I have, would be about the random 404 page not found errors here and at t.box. Ive noticed though that even though there is no access to either isohunt and t.box, ed2k-it is still up and running so wondered if it was a server/database issue or just me. Laughing

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:31 am

404 on what URL? Haven't seen them, at least not random occurance.

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:34 am

I haven't really noticed a difference, the only one really is that the pages load a little faster.
I also got a couple of 404 but that was a few days ago, haven't had any recently.

And thanks again for all the hard work by you and your team Cool

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:43 am

I've had the occasional 404 error as well but none in the last few days. Smile

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:47 am

There was no url in particular, would happen either while replying to a post, or while just browsing the forum. The site would become slow to respond then the 404. There was a bit of chatter about it on irc. But as Skull&Bones said that was a couple of days ago, and I've not noticed it since.

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:56 am

Ok. Ya servers have been relatively stable for the last few days.

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:01 pm

I agree that the Connectivity from the UK has been off and on.. but nothing to write home about.. I'm not too sure on how our connections are being made..maybe that would have somin to do with it.. requests from the UK I mean?

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:08 pm

Yeah, they really must update our phone line extension from Europe. Laughing

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:13 pm

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:43 pm

it seems slower sometimes. it hangs on opening the forums for at times, 5 minutes.

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:29 pm

Everything seems to be back to working great!
You all deserve much credit.
Thanks for all the work you do.

I have not noticed a difference in response/load time.
I have not generated any errors though, so that is good.

Once again, thanks!

Very Happy

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:59 pm

I thinks it runs great and you gents <i>do</i> deserve to pat yourselves on the back. Excellent work.

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:02 pm

Alot faster. Before pages won't even load but now they load like google.

(FYI I live in Canada)

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:01 pm

Every thing seems fine here. Probably a bit quicker now.