With my new found two weeks of vacation time (kinda) from work, i've finally gotten around to upgrading daIRC. Many of the upgrades weren't really needed on a performance idea, but more to cut costs.
Money money money...money!
Like all things, daIRC requires quite a bit of cash to operate. You've noticed that on Friday (Dec 23rd) hinoto split the network in half. This move will drop our costs by about $40/mo, as well as double our servers performance.
For a full break down on cost cuts, see this table.
Server Name Old Cost New Cost
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Hinoto $100/mo $60/mo
Chisa (DAT) $180/mo $0.00/mo (absorbed into the cost of the webserver)
Motoko $150/mo $40/mo (Moved UK -> Germany)
Web Chat $100/mo $70/mo (Same location as hinoto, but has 2GB RAM)
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TOTALS: $530/mo $170/mo DIFF -> $360/mo savings
As you can see, the upgrades were very much well worth it.
There are talks right now to move kasumi as it keeps proving to be a pest of a box. Granted, it's only *fully* died twice in the past year we've had her, it's been randomly throwing up users. The host uses people like Cogent & Telia, which are just crappy providers all around. We get a uptime SLA and all, and for the most part they meet it, but I've already done a little window shopping and found a company in the same area with way better bandwidth (all TIER 1 bandwidth - InterNAP) for $30/mo less - Anyone got experience with InterNAP?
On top of those savings, one of the side communities DA does billing for has cut their costs by nearly 50% due to a change of hosts (layeredtech is a buncha bastards I tell ya!)
zBot, etc
As many saw, zBot was out for much of today due to some issues we found in the code last night after a crash out. Me and W1N9Zr0 (be sure to thank him!) spent the better part of today debugging it and speeding it up. We've done some quick calculations that are showing zbot now being 10x faster. No more will you have to wait a second or so for zbot to kick back results or anything of the sort - all now instant
zBot changes
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- Flood protection
- cleaning up of all user messages
- massive speed increase
Granted, the list isn't huge, the changes that were done were fairly big to impliment
Webchat & daIRC website!...wait..we have a website?
I've finally gotten time to make the new daIRC website (late beta at this point), and have put together the new webchat we'll be launching soon.
Users wishing to see/comment on either of them can visit
new website - http://beta.deltaanime.net
new webchat - http://beta.deltaanime.net/chat/
Yes, i'm aware the chat doesn't got daIRC at this time, for teh time being we're just using the test server they provide with the new client.
Happy Holidays!
~Francisco
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