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you're primary
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#1 - 2013-05-15 22:09:06 UTC
Hey folks,

Can someone point me to a source where I can find an insight to the current hardware & software behind TQ? The most recent information I could find dates back to '09, I think something must've changed in the meantime?

Perhaps this is a nice topic for a feature devblog from one of the servertechs?

Regards,

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baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#2 - 2013-05-15 22:13:53 UTC
I Love Boobies
All Hail Boobies
#3 - 2013-05-15 22:20:41 UTC
Hamsters. They thought about upgrading to ferrets, but couldn't afford them.
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#4 - 2013-05-15 22:45:38 UTC
You know those wicked awesome server farms you see in all the movies?

Picture the exact opposite, and add an icelandic background.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Azami Nevinyrall
172.0.0.1
#5 - 2013-05-15 23:15:59 UTC
I Love Boobies wrote:
Hamsters. They thought about upgrading to ferrets, but couldn't afford them.

Thankfully they're non-union, otherwise we'd have a 15min server restart every 3-4 hours.

...
Ckra Trald
Ckra Trald Corporation
#6 - 2013-05-16 00:22:35 UTC
a computer from 2000 running windows 95 and 2 gigs of RAM

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Tyrendian Biohazard
The Bastards
Sedition.
#7 - 2013-05-16 03:12:42 UTC
you're primary wrote:
Hey folks,

I think something must've changed in the meantime?



You'd be surprised. I know where I work the refresh goal is 5 years, but I regularly run into system pushing the 8 and 9 year range. "If it isn't broke..."

I remember seeing a couple posts concerning what they were running, but what stuck out was IBM blades, HS20s (maybe around 60 of them?), that iirc only max at 8GB each and a handful of x3850s for database servers.

It is amazing how well they've been able to build on everything over the past 10 years without it become a tangled mess (as shown in the picture) as can so easily happen.

CCP should just brew their own cheap beer, sell it for insane prices at fanfest (you know we'll buy Quafe brand beer), and buy all new hardware. Smile

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Turelus
Utassi Security
#8 - 2013-05-16 06:24:39 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
You know those wicked awesome server farms you see in all the movies?

Picture the exact opposite, and add an icelandic background.

But the servers are in England not Iceland... Shocked

Turelus CEO Utassi Security
OfBalance
Caldari State
#9 - 2013-05-16 06:29:46 UTC
Azami Nevinyrall wrote:
I Love Boobies wrote:
Hamsters. They thought about upgrading to ferrets, but couldn't afford them.

Thankfully they're non-union, otherwise we'd have a 15min server restart every 3-4 hours.


Awl haev yu no thet us yewyin guiz ah the hadest woikin banch of bastids youz evah know'd. Fahk yowa bizness ahm sticken wit mai buthiz, excep' fah da fakin skaebs!
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#10 - 2013-05-16 08:19:35 UTC
Turelus wrote:
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
You know those wicked awesome server farms you see in all the movies?

Picture the exact opposite, and add an icelandic background.

But the servers are in England not Iceland... Shocked


Looks the same.
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#11 - 2013-05-16 08:25:32 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
Turelus wrote:
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
You know those wicked awesome server farms you see in all the movies?

Picture the exact opposite, and add an icelandic background.

But the servers are in England not Iceland... Shocked


Looks the same.


Nope. Iceland gets sunshine in the summer.

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
Darth Kilth
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#12 - 2013-05-16 08:35:55 UTC
Ckra Trald wrote:
a computer from 2000 running windows 95 and 2 gigs of RAM

That's a lot of ram for a computer running Win95
Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#13 - 2013-05-16 08:43:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Andski
It's a blade cluster running Windows Server 2008 R2 installed in the Server Core configuration. Their database server is MSSQL Server 2008, database storage is RamSan.

No idea how many blades CCP uses or how they're networked. I can only assume (and hope) it's 10GbE with redundancy. Each in-game solar system is a separate "server", but most of their nodes are hosting several dozen systems at once. Jita and certain other systems are always on dedicated nodes while some low-activity system like Rimbah runs alongside several dozen other low-traffic systems on the same node.

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Jita GnaGna
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#14 - 2013-05-16 08:43:36 UTC
Darth Kilth wrote:
Ckra Trald wrote:
a computer from 2000 running windows 95 and 2 gigs of RAM

That's a lot of ram for a computer running Win95


It runs TQ - just needs the RAM!
Azami Nevinyrall
172.0.0.1
#15 - 2013-05-16 10:15:58 UTC
OfBalance wrote:
Azami Nevinyrall wrote:
I Love Boobies wrote:
Hamsters. They thought about upgrading to ferrets, but couldn't afford them.

Thankfully they're non-union, otherwise we'd have a 15min server restart every 3-4 hours.


Awl haev yu no thet us yewyin guiz ah the hadest woikin banch of bastids youz evah know'd. Fahk yowa bizness ahm sticken wit mai buthiz, excep' fah da fakin skaebs!

Now...in English, not "I just smashed my face against the keyboard a few times."

...
Sarmatiko
#16 - 2013-05-16 10:22:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Sarmatiko
Jake Warbird
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2013-05-16 12:31:19 UTC
Andski wrote:
It's a blade cluster running Windows Server 2008 R2 installed in the Server Core configuration. Their database server is MSSQL Server 2008, database storage is RamSan.

No idea how many blades CCP uses or how they're networked. I can only assume (and hope) it's 10GbE with redundancy. Each in-game solar system is a separate "server", but most of their nodes are hosting several dozen systems at once. Jita and certain other systems are always on dedicated nodes while some low-activity system like Rimbah runs alongside several dozen other low-traffic systems on the same node.

Inb4 countless threads on 'OMFG Goons have access to CCP hardware, nerf Goons, CCP are Goons' *******' and so on and so forth.

Sugar Von MurdererTits : Jake Warbird gets my vote for most intriguing and attractive male character in Eve.
Sergeant Acht Scultz
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#18 - 2013-05-16 12:41:57 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
Turelus wrote:
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
You know those wicked awesome server farms you see in all the movies?

Picture the exact opposite, and add an icelandic background.

But the servers are in England not Iceland... Shocked


Looks the same.



Nope, there are sunny days in Iceland.

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Othran
Route One
#19 - 2013-05-16 13:09:31 UTC
Malcanis wrote:
baltec1 wrote:
Turelus wrote:
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
You know those wicked awesome server farms you see in all the movies?

Picture the exact opposite, and add an icelandic background.

But the servers are in England not Iceland... Shocked


Looks the same.


Nope. Iceland gets sunshine in the summer.


...and has volcanos.

Right enough I suppose they give off some heat, which by all accounts the UK could do with right now (apparently snowed the other day), makes me feel slightly better about being in Oman which is at least hot.
Meta Warrior
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#20 - 2013-05-16 13:48:40 UTC