Hehe, just too excited right now, my Dual PIII that I sent to VDI is up right now .. wowow .. now I have to figure out my way around it ;)

Have fun... there's nothing like a fresh new box to play with... :)

Yeah Travis .. too bad that I am as lost as I can possibly be .. how the heck do I setup new DNS servers in this thing

hehe .. I was spoiled by Alabanza ;)

I can do it from the command-line... but if they've got their own tools, you're on your own. :)

Congrat!

I'm wondering how long does VDI take to connect your box into their NOC?

Thx.
Soda

PS: sorry..my grammar is not good.

sodapopinski

I sent the server Monday, they got it UPS yesterday .. well today I'm working on my new baby ;-)

So i have to say it's quite fast

Originally posted by CRego3D
sodapopinski

I sent the server Monday, they got it UPS yesterday .. well today I'm working on my new baby ;-)

So i have to say it's quite fast

What are the specs of the box?

My Box ?

I sent them a Dual PIII 600, 512Mb of Ram, 3x 9.1 cheetah SCSI HD's and 1x 30 gig IDE HD (for backups of the 3 scsi)

It was one of my old render stations :), made an excellent Web Server (got a couple more here to send them in a few months)

(so yeah, when I say New Baby .. I should say re-born new baby ;) )

That's one hell of a machine.

JTY

that's nothing, I have a Dual 866 with 1 gig of ram and 3x 72 gig SCSI, and a Dual 933 with 1.5 gig of ram and 4x 72 Gig + 2x 50gig (all SCSI U160) ... Now those are great, I wish I could have sent one of them, but I need them for my 3D work so :( .. but once I can get a Dual PIV 1.5 Gigz .. the Dual 866 is out to VDI :D

Crap, even 1/2 of that would *still* be a nice box. Nothing worng with a PIII 600 256MB 2 HD system. I suddenly don't like Carlos all that much. I have server envy.

hehe, don't !!

If you had to pay for them you would not envy me at all :(

Becides, it it wasn't for the 3D business I would never buy machines like these, they cost too much and don't last very long ... (so reusing them for webhosting is looking very attactive, and least I get some more use out of them)


[Edited by CRego3D on 11-02-2000 at 12:52 AM]

PS - I've seen some people going to my website from this thread, sorry guys, the site is not on the new servers yet, and hans't been updated to reflect the changes as well (from Alabanza to VDI)

*drools all over Carlos' machines*

errrrrr... Sorry. Couldn't resist...

:emlaugh:

I want, I want, I want, I want. I feel like a 10 year old who was told he can't go out trick or treating this year.

Let us know if you want to get rid of some of that candy Carlos. :)

Ok, I am curious...

What kind of 3D work do you do that would basically wear out a machine with those kinds of specs? Does your 3D work wear out a specific part, then you replace the part, scrap the machine, then use it for hosting?

***This is how bad I don't want to work today...I will be toying with this one all morning. :) ***

Micky ..

No, I'm sorry I guess I mislead you, we don't "wear out" machines .. well I do very heavy 3D graphics, some more than others (Have you guys seen the new AT&T Broadband commercials, where the AT&T ball does wacky stuff ;) )

Anyway, in this business, software and rendering time are very demanding, here is an example, last December I bought a Dual PIII 500 with 256MB RAM, and Last Jan I bought a Dual PIII 600 512MB ram (you know where that one is)... well, Softimage XSI was released since then, and customers demands for faster rendering (meaning smaller deadlines), so after using the Dual 500 for a while Making sure the computer paid by itself and made some profit) I gave it to my wife and got the Dual 866 to handle XSI better, and then the same fate for the Dual 600 vs Dual 933 for the Uncompressed Video editing .. what this means is, you allways have to be investing in new and faster machines if you expect to deliever on time, customers get more demanding, so the animations become more heavy .. requiring more CPU power, the Dual 866 will last probably until January .. then it's out the door ... (probably to VDI)

Aaah...I see. That makes more sense. :)

It is amazing with such a demanding schedule you have time for the support issues that comes with web hosting.

Great way to lead into my next question...:)

The way I see it, if you have everything documented properly, a great control panel, there should be minimal support issues. Of course, there will be people that chose not read the documentation or even look at the control panel, but that is not the majority, right?

This question is for those companies that have resellers: Is it common place for the resellers to offer packages not exactly like the reseller packages you have available?

For example, if you offer a reseller package that has 50MB of space, 5 POP3s, and 2 gig of space can the reseller make the package 50MB of space, 5 POP3s and 3 gig of transfer, banking on the fact that 3 gig would not be used? Of course, if the person went over, you would be stuck paying the hosting company the difference. Or, if the reseller package has 400MB of space, offer 500MB, thinking that the would not use that much space?

From my understanding, if each customer actually used up all their resources, the servers would be overloaded. Is it okay for a reseller to do this as well?

Well you'd be overselling oversold servers, but aside from that it could still work. You might get dinged for a few sites that actually do go over the host's limit. I'd check out the addl. prices for space and transfer, as generally this is a pretty high price. You are always better off stepping up to the next package (as paying for just 10MB over or 1gig over can be pricey).

Back to the previous host about having minimal support issues if everything is well documented, that is so true, but you always have those people who refuse to even read or look for a answer, after all picking up the phone is easier.

tell me about it, more than half of support requests could be avid if people just read the online manual ,, but noooo, it;s easier to just send an email

And to reply to the other postg, yes it's hard to manage time between the 2 business, but hey, nothing comes easy, and 3-4 hours sleep a night is plenty ,,, :(

Originally posted by CRego3D
Micky ..

No, I'm sorry I guess I mislead you, we don't "wear out" machines .. well I do very heavy 3D graphics, some more than others (Have you guys seen the new AT&T Broadband commercials, where the AT&T ball does wacky stuff ;) )

Anyway, in this business, software and rendering time are very demanding, here is an example, last December I bought a Dual PIII 500 with 256MB RAM, and Last Jan I bought a Dual PIII 600 512MB ram (you know where that one is)... well, Softimage XSI was released since then, and customers demands for faster rendering (meaning smaller deadlines), so after using the Dual 500 for a while Making sure the computer paid by itself and made some profit) I gave it to my wife and got the Dual 866 to handle XSI better, and then the same fate for the Dual 600 vs Dual 933 for the Uncompressed Video editing .. what this means is, you allways have to be investing in new and faster machines if you expect to deliever on time, customers get more demanding, so the animations become more heavy .. requiring more CPU power, the Dual 866 will last probably until January .. then it's out the door ... (probably to VDI) wouldn't leasing be more cost effective for such a business ?

eva2000:

Well .. not really, see the lease works great for my Jeep, but not to my computers, I like to build them myself to my exact specs, plus when you lease you are subjected to too much crap (can't open the box, etc etc ... my boxes are open daily ;) )

I don't know, maybe I should look more into it, but I did about 18 months ago and I really didn't like it...