[G4ME]

With the anouncement hours away, I say we all chip in 20-50 bucks and get one of those servers to host the Proxy sites, it only makes senes, the largest DC on macs hostes by and AMD just dosn't sound good, lets set up a pay pal account and donate

What do you think, I will do it, only if the quad gzh machine will be crunching RC5, 24-7, how dose, 45,000 Keys sound, at 20,000 units a day. I am drooling.

[Scotttheking]

Originally posted by G4ME:
<STRONG>With the anouncement hours away, I say we all chip in 20-50 bucks and get one of those servers to host the Proxy sites, it only makes senes, the largest DC on macs hostes by and AMD just dosn't sound good, lets set up a pay pal account and donate

What do you think, I will do it, only if the quad gzh machine will be crunching RC5, 24-7, how dose, 45,000 Keys sound, at 20,000 units a day. I am drooling.</STRONG>

I've got no problem with kicking some money in to the pot.
However, here's what else I'd need to run the proxies on OSX.
1. A OSX version of the RC5 proxy.
2. A OSX version of the SETI proxy.

I'm also assuming I'd be hosting it, since it costs $500 to put a comp in a rack at the hosting site, plus money each month.
I have no problem doing that if you can meet the above requirements for me.
If you actually did buy it, it'd be crunching under a new team account.

If you just want cheap crunching, get someone to host a stack of comps people can donate money to building (no, I can't host anything like that).

--Scott

[slipjack]

Scott, you could set up a Pay Pal account for the pot...

[Scotttheking]

Originally posted by slipjack:
<STRONG>Scott, you could set up a Pay Pal account for the pot...</STRONG>

team AT macnn DOT com
that should work fine

[Scotttheking]

Now that I've actually seen specs, it looks like we could probably run the main stats stuff off one of those.
However, it'd cost you at least $5K, and the proxies and the actual site would still not be running on macs.
Note that I don't think it's worth it, and could run the stuff just as well on a $3000 x86 system.

[G4ME]

But its a mac and its ooooh so cool looking

[slipjack]

It would be worth it... we are Team MACnn remember.

And I agree... it's pretty darn schweet.

[SkiBikeSki]

If we did get an XServe, we would prabably like it more for it's production in RC5, and not its webserving speed. Sure it'd be a little faster then what we have now, but the limiting factor is probably more the bandwidth not the server.

Why not just spend the money on some iMac 800's that'll do just as much production, and other things as well.


Just seems to me like an XServe is overkill for our website, and serves no other real purpose.

[The_Equivocator]

Originally posted by SkiBikeSki:
<STRONG>If we did get an XServe, we would prabably like it more for it's production in RC5, and not its webserving speed. Sure it'd be a little faster then what we have now, but the limiting factor is probably more the bandwidth not the server.

Why not just spend the money on some iMac 800's that'll do just as much production, and other things as well.


Just seems to me like an XServe is overkill for our website, and serves no other real purpose.</STRONG>

I agree. I think that if the team had money, there would be better places to put it. Scott, if we had money for the team, what would you do with it?

[reader50]

I'd pay the bills and buy the junk food, so that entire weeks could go into the Team site.

hmm... getting an Xserve with the dough might be more healthy.

[Scotttheking]

Originally posted by The_Equivocator:
<STRONG>

I agree. I think that if the team had money, there would be better places to put it. Scott, if we had money for the team, what would you do with it?</STRONG>

Reply to the offer I have to buy a few computer parts I need to replace the bad seti proxy box (which is currently running on what was one of my linux boxes)