PEQ is down again ??

[badplayer]

I've never used "enterprise" raid. What do $800 raid cards do that intel chipset raid doesn't do? Isn't the bottleneck the hard drives and not the chipset??? Even with an old ICH8R, two super fastSSD doesn't bottleneck it and these mechanical drivers are way slower.

[Itchybottom]

Originally Posted by badplayer

I've never used "enterprise" raid. What do $800 raid cards do that intel chipset raid doesn't do? Isn't the bottleneck the hard drives and not the chipset??? Even with an old ICH8R, two super fastSSD doesn't bottleneck it and these mechanical drivers are way slower.

Battery backed cache, and in most cases better cross-platform driver compatibility because companies like Areca have product lines that aren't as wide spread as a systems integrator.

[badplayer]

Originally Posted by Itchybottom

Battery backed cache, and in most cases better cross-platform driver compatibility because companies like Areca have product lines that aren't as wide spread as a systems integrator.

Why in the world would that be needed for a EQ server? Those two raid cards take the price from relatively easy to do, to crazy expensive. $2400 vs $4000.

I can't even imagine a situation where you would need such a thing as opposed to a plain old UPS at 1/10th the cost. That's something a giant corporation like VISA would buy for redundancy in credit card transactions. I would imagine most etailers, unless you're the size of newegg, don't even have one. This is madness.

[TheDonkey]

[sorvani]

Originally Posted by badplayer

Why in the world would that be needed for a EQ server? Those two raid cards take the price from relatively easy to do, to crazy expensive. $2400 vs $4000.

I can't even imagine a situation where you would need such a thing as opposed to a plain old UPS at 1/10th the cost. That's something a giant corporation like VISA would buy for redundancy in credit card transactions. I would imagine most etailers, unless you're the size of newegg, don't even have one. This is madness.

I can telly you that you would be wrong there. I recommend similar equipment to every single client when purchasing servers for their small and medium businesses. Giant megacorp has 2 or three sets of redundant servers. SMB has a single server with hot swap components and 4 hour service contracts with their vendors. A SMB can't afford multiples (well say they can't), but they hurt far worse than megacorp when their system goes down.

[badplayer]

Originally Posted by sorvani

I can telly you that you would be wrong there. I recommend similar equipment to every single client when purchasing servers for their small and medium businesses. Giant megacorp has 2 or three sets of redundant servers. SMB has a single server with hot swap components and 4 hour service contracts with their vendors. A SMB can't afford multiples (well say they can't), but they hurt far worse than megacorp when their system goes down.

Yea but....this is an EQ server. Two redundant boxes plus two $800 raid cards is just a lot of money. Could get this done so much easier without the expensive raid cards.

[KalikaMojeska]

Me and my hubby started back to EQ just this last month after MANY years of being being gone and recently even made it to LV 20 woo hoo . After trying a few different servers we felt we found a home on PEQ. Everyone has been so friendly, especially with my sometimes NOOB questions and helpful like giving me buffs so I could get my levels back before my hubby got home and found out how dumb I really was when I fell though the tree in BB and lost 3 levels just doing a corpse run b/c I was lost LOL.

I know my hubby already told me he will be giving a donation this month...not sure if it will be $25 or $100 (we have 2 little kids 4yrs and 9months) it will depend on bills this month I am guessing. Hopefully no matter what it is it will be helpful.

Thank you guys for your hard work, and while we are sad PEQ is down we anxiously wait for it to come back up. Doesn't matter if it's one day or four days will we will be back when you are

Babes

[unykron]

I think some of these peeps should take a chill pill and be patient for several reasons.

1- Its free so as much as you wanna get ticked cause you cant play always remember...it's free.

2 - Dont bitch about what setup they wanna use....it's their servers when they get the money it will all be all right again..until then qwitchabitchin.


3 - refer to 1 and 2 and if you still cant seem to get it, grab a roll of duct tape and super glue and glue the tape to your lips.

as for donations, yes I havent made one yet im still catching up my bills but I will make one of many. as for the rest quit bitchin about the donations for somthing that is free for you to play.

If you dont trust them enough to help out and make our server run with perfection then maybe you shouldnt be taking advantage of the free part and then put your 2 cents in like as if you been paying monthly for 3 years