I.M.O.G. Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 So PJ's been on holiday for a couple days now, and hwbot hasn't reduced itself to a smoldering pile of slime yet... This seemed unusual which lead me to stop and think for a moment. HWBot has actually been running a lot nicer for quite some time, at least from over here in the US. In the past, downtimes and slowness were far more of an ever present issue, but for a while now it seems like things have been a lot snappier than previously. Just thought I'd share that. And if I'm lucky, I can jinx things and it will break while he's away. It's tradition. (quick, everybody trigger a manual recalc) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devroush Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Daww, that made me very happy. Thanks for the kind words, we hope to keep improving things! PJ told me HWBOT has a history of breaking down when he or Frederik go on holiday though. Here's hoping we break that tradition . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richba5tard Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 The breaking down part was mainly due to running on dedicated servers using a small Belgian backbone on which we had to patch the os and middleware ourselves. Since mid september we are running on the Amazon EC2 cloud, and haven't had any downtime! *knocks on wood* The downside is the cost though. Dedicated servers was 300 euro / month + 2x 2000 euro for a 1U server. Amazon is currently 1500 euro a month, but we are working on it to reduce the cost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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