View Poll Results: Chapter Leader
Placermike
20
86.96%
RexB
1
4.35%
Ford_Six
2
8.70%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 23. You may not vote on this poll
Chapter Leader
Post Fiend
Joined: Jan 1997
Posts: 23,165
Likes: 18
From: Enjoying the real world.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/chapters.php
Check out the overview at the top. Chapters are here for local participation. While there is no set "rule", joining a chapter in another state defeats the purpose of "geographic" chapters. If you want to hang out with folks in a group and discuss non-local things, the General sections cover that really well.
Have fun.
Check out the overview at the top. Chapters are here for local participation. While there is no set "rule", joining a chapter in another state defeats the purpose of "geographic" chapters. If you want to hang out with folks in a group and discuss non-local things, the General sections cover that really well.
Have fun.
Originally Posted by Placermike
There are no rules about living in the state and being a member of the chapter. Each chapter just needs members that have fun and are active. BTW, there is nothing wrong with a 'Spud Man'...Wouldn't know what to do if Idaho didn't grow my baked potatoes!!!!!!!!!!
Posting Guru
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 1,692
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Yeah Mike jeez, "state chapters" are self-explanatory, what we gotta' do to drum up more members is get them to say they're from Washington and join up.
It's tough posting again, forum server is slow :~)
It's tough posting again, forum server is slow :~)
Last edited by RexB; Feb 25, 2007 at 09:26 AM.
Posting Guru
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 1,692
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The server sped up again just after I said that, it figures.
Thanks.
For a full backup and copy it was working well. Dual-Athlons, eh.
Got an Athlon FX-53 (single core o'course), love the speed and fairly cool running on air.
Thanks.
For a full backup and copy it was working well. Dual-Athlons, eh.
Got an Athlon FX-53 (single core o'course), love the speed and fairly cool running on air.
Post Fiend
Joined: Jan 1997
Posts: 23,165
Likes: 18
From: Enjoying the real world.
Originally Posted by RexB
The server sped up again just after I said that, it figures.
Thanks.
For a full backup and copy it was working well. Dual-Athlons, eh.
Got an Athlon FX-53 (single core o'course), love the speed and fairly cool running on air.
Thanks.
For a full backup and copy it was working well. Dual-Athlons, eh.
Got an Athlon FX-53 (single core o'course), love the speed and fairly cool running on air.
Takes a lot of horsepower to run the site. There are 2 other web servers as well.
Post Fiend
Joined: Jan 1997
Posts: 23,165
Likes: 18
From: Enjoying the real world.
The database is Mysql. 6 gigabytes. The database server has 8 gig of RAM (upgradeable to 64 gig) so the entire database fits in RAM. Not sure, but it may be 12 gig of RAM. So many systems I don't know the exact specs anymore unless I log in and check! Disk I/O usage is under .1%. If it were an Oracle or Postgres database we wouldn't need so much power. Mysql is blinding fast on table reads but starts slowing down on inserts in large tables. Hopefully the VBulletin team will support Postgres in the next version.
I really don't pay much attention to the GB/sec between the database and web servers. There are dual gigabit networks between them and they barely get used even during peak loads. 99% of the time any slowdown users see are CPU related on the web server and that's usually caused by search engine crawlers hitting the site too fast. We're taking care of that with a load balancer and need to deploy an extra web server for it.
The bottleneck on backup is:
1. compressing all the database files
2. compressing and archiving all the site files (and there are a lot because of the user galleries)
3. sending them over an encrypted connection to a remote server.
I really don't pay much attention to the GB/sec between the database and web servers. There are dual gigabit networks between them and they barely get used even during peak loads.
99% of the time any slowdown users see are CPU related on the web server and that's usually caused by search engine crawlers hitting the site too fast. We're taking care of that with a load balancer and need to deploy an extra web server for it.The bottleneck on backup is:
1. compressing all the database files
2. compressing and archiving all the site files (and there are a lot because of the user galleries)
3. sending them over an encrypted connection to a remote server.
Hotshot
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 18,488
Likes: 22
From: The Big, Oregon
Man, I didn't know the servers were spec'ed out that good...........
Makes my computer seem a touch on the slow side.
Makes my computer seem a touch on the slow side.
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Posting Guru
Joined: Jun 2002
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Impressive. I hear ya' about mySQL, good but with limits. And we sure appreciate the effort to allow pix in the Galleries, that's what we're about.
Plus a few on-topic images in the threads. 'Everything in moderation' is a good saying, like a reasonable amount of images 800 pix wide or less...I had dialup for years and know how torturous that can be. But they make for good threads, and repair descriptions, etc.
Bravo!
Same here, but ya' have a lot of good Fords!
Plus a few on-topic images in the threads. 'Everything in moderation' is a good saying, like a reasonable amount of images 800 pix wide or less...I had dialup for years and know how torturous that can be. But they make for good threads, and repair descriptions, etc.
Bravo!
Originally Posted by Ford_Six
Makes my computer seem a touch on the slow side.
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Postmaster
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,287
Likes: 0
From: Sequim, WA
Originally Posted by webmaster
https://www.ford-trucks.com/chapters.php
Check out the overview at the top. Chapters are here for local participation. While there is no set "rule", joining a chapter in another state defeats the purpose of "geographic" chapters. If you want to hang out with folks in a group and discuss non-local things, the General sections cover that really well. Have fun.
Check out the overview at the top. Chapters are here for local participation. While there is no set "rule", joining a chapter in another state defeats the purpose of "geographic" chapters. If you want to hang out with folks in a group and discuss non-local things, the General sections cover that really well.
Have fun.
Postmaster
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 3,568
Likes: 1
From: Middleton, ID
Originally Posted by webmaster
Full backups and system maintenance take place Sunday mornings. The process lasts serveral hours and includes copying the entire server backup set to a remote server.
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