New TBOTCOTW server
Zomby complained that my blog was a little slow ealier this week. He was right, commenting was taking up to seventy seconds from pushing the post button to getting the refreshed page. Even dynamic publishing (which I thought would make things very quick) only cut off a few seconds.
So I decided to see if I could get something cheap that would be a big improvement. And what do you know, MicroCenter had an AMD Sempron (a processor I’d never heard of) for $250, with a 150 dollar rebate if you used their credit card. Another 80 bucks to add a half-gig of RAM and I was in business.
Now comment times are down to 15 seconds (and they’re usually much faster than that) and hopefully Andy won’t feel the need to ping me three times anymore because the first two time out.
Alternate post: 100 bucks for a computer that’s at least 100 times more powerful than the one my dad paid 4500 dollars for in 1983? What a great fucking country.
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Dude, that’s a good deal on your new server. A really good deal.
Now, let’s see how well it works…