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New server - AUS-www.xgn.com.au-THU-NIGHTS
« on: May 22, 2014, 11:51:36 PM »
Guys, I'm trying the most basic, free Amazon cloud hosted server. The server name is AUS-www.xgn.com.au-THU-NIGHTS.
It's in a book/qual/race cycle. Jump on in numbers whenever you can, and let me know how it performs.
There's always the option to scale up to a bigger server, but let's see how this basic, free solution performs.

You can see where the server's up to by clicking here.
« Last Edit: July 16, 2014, 07:57:45 PM by Wally »
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Re: New server - AUS-www.xgn.com.au-THU-NIGHTS
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2014, 09:07:56 AM »
Nice!  We can even leave this running all the time, and fire up a bigger one for the races - I've a hunch this won't be able to cope with 20ppl :)
Hell, even windoze may throw a backflip at the low amount of memory available.

p.s.
You got there pretty quick, that's nice - only 12:15 for the last edit! ;)

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Re: New server - AUS-www.xgn.com.au-THU-NIGHTS
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2014, 09:51:33 AM »
Thanks for burning the midnight oil Wally.

Good work, I noticed as I write this there are 2 users on the server... will drop in tonight for a few laps... is this a 'micro' instance?
Certainly the first race I was in, the server behaved very well, even it is an overkill, if the instance is only running on race night, with a practice server on a  lighter on running either 24/7 or prescribed hours, it will be cheaper than other servers we have had, with the exception of Wally's NetKar pro.
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Re: New server - AUS-www.xgn.com.au-THU-NIGHTS
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2014, 10:34:18 AM »
don't forget that you only get the micro instance free under these conditions:
- new AWS accounts (one year limit)
- only ONE micro instance at a time
- also, only certain instance images, but this is irrelevant here I think, we don't want to run anything crazy

edit: although, it still only costs $15/mo to run a micro "on demand" server, but if we plan to do it all-year-round, it's better to get a "reserved" instance.   It roughly halves the price with a one-year heavy reserved instance (in this case, to $6.70).

Along these lines, we could get a 3-year reserved instance, of m.medium (the 3.7GB one) one-off upfront payment of $370, and then $18.30/mo.
That's effectively $28.5/mo. 

calculator:
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
« Last Edit: May 23, 2014, 11:02:35 AM by Bird »

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Re: New server - AUS-www.xgn.com.au-THU-NIGHTS
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2014, 11:43:20 AM »
Why don't we just fire up a bigger race server on race nights for roughly a buck an hour, rather than a long term permanent server? That's what I was thinking.

I'm going to try to jump on tonight, 8-ish for some laps on the micro server. Let's see if we can get a few people on it and see how the micro copes.
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Re: New server - AUS-www.xgn.com.au-THU-NIGHTS
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2014, 12:26:13 PM »
see you at 8pm...
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Re: New server - AUS-www.xgn.com.au-THU-NIGHTS
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2014, 01:23:10 PM »
I will see you guys there at 8pm.

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Re: New server - AUS-www.xgn.com.au-THU-NIGHTS
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2014, 01:39:06 PM »
Why don't we just fire up a bigger race server on race nights for roughly a buck an hour, rather than a long term permanent server? That's what I was thinking.

I'm going to try to jump on tonight, 8-ish for some laps on the micro server. Let's see if we can get a few people on it and see how the micro copes.

Yeah, just exploring the potential setups and their costs...:)
I'll try to make it tonight.

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Re: New server - AUS-www.xgn.com.au-THU-NIGHTS
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2014, 02:51:47 PM »
Getting 17ms pings

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Re: New server - AUS-www.xgn.com.au-THU-NIGHTS
« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2014, 06:58:59 PM »
To pay or not to pay that is the question
What i mean is i will throw $$ at you as i'm sure we all will
Is there a payment system setup ??

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Re: New server - AUS-www.xgn.com.au-THU-NIGHTS
« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2014, 07:13:46 PM »
If we have to pay for a server that stable, then tell me how. 8)

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Re: New server - AUS-www.xgn.com.au-THU-NIGHTS
« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2014, 07:31:30 PM »
We'll see how the free micro server stacks up, then we'll see what's what. It won't be expensive however we slice it, I think.
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Re: New server - AUS-www.xgn.com.au-THU-NIGHTS
« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2014, 07:37:36 PM »
Are you playing with the server now? ???

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Re: New server - AUS-www.xgn.com.au-THU-NIGHTS
« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2014, 07:41:31 PM »
Are you playing with the server now? ???
Just updated it (new AC server update), and it's up now.
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Re: New server - AUS-www.xgn.com.au-THU-NIGHTS
« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2014, 08:40:24 PM »
Hi all.
Just signed up, look forward to racing against everyone.  Just wish that you could join during practice or qual so I don't have to wait so long to get onto the server :)
Cheers.

 

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