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Avsim again...

When the forum server was brought back online, the database was initialized with a date sometime in 2008. When Tom reset the time and date, he mistyped 14 for the day instead of 13, hence the forum server's data was now 24 hours "fast..."

Tom has reset the forum server's time and date early this morning, but the re-synch won't occur until sometime this afternoon apparently.

I cannot post or reply there myself until later today...

Tom posted some details about AVSIM's server farm that frankly surprised me. I knew it was "big" but really had no idea at the true size...
We run two main servers that provide over 11 Tera-bytes of bandwidth of files and data a month. Each of those servers run 8 processors, with 32 gigs of RAM on each. Our MySql database is over 7 gigs in size.

We have looked at those "cloud" systems and at a minimum, they would quadruple our costs (at a minimum and actually it could be five to six times more or greater). Each month we would be unable to predict what our final cost would be because of their variable pricing due to bandwidth and other charges. Our advertising and donations do not pay our costs now. Doing that would just cause us to shut the doors sooner than later.

Go to the MS Azure site and price out a comparable Linux based system. When I looked, their Linux based solution was over $4,000 a month before you priced in bandwidth and database size. Factor in 11 Tera-bytes a month and the size of the database and I shudder to think what the monthly cost would be. I can say this with certainty... The community would not be willing to pay for it, that's for sure.
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