Constans, Camille wrote:
Have you got some news about the new db server ? When we'll got it, we'll be able to do the press release :-)
Last I heard it was going to hopefully be installed sometime late this week.
But will it be 350 000 articles press release or something else ?
If things get really fast with the new server then why not wait for half a million articles? By the time we reach that (early next year) we should be starting to tax our new server setup and at least need some minor upgrades all around (lots and lots of RAM) and an additional $2,000-$3,000 webserver (or a server to perform full text searches on - whatever is needed most).
We've waited this long and the major point of the press release in the first place was to get enough money through donations to get a big bad database server. Thanks to that $5,000 donation we achieved that goal well before we were ready to distribute the press release.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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