Error 2020: Too Slow

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That looks good. What I'm probably going to do is RAID6 a 256GiB SSD and then RAID6 4TiB HDD, so I'm going to need 8 SATA slots. I'd also like more logical cores.

I'm very tempted to get two new servers, actually. One strictly for PHP and then an AMD Threadripper for reverse-proxying, and offer to reverse-proxy any contentious sites that'd like to have me handling their email complaints.
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I'd definitely get two new servers to split resource handling (then again, that's just spending your money, LOL). Do you use load balancers on the public-facing side, or just rely on CF to do it job? I know CF can be a real dick relaying traffic forward for things they may not have cached, resulting in a zillion requests bouncing in (usually from bots, scrapers, and fuckers versus legit traffic). It's enough to make you crazy.
 
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After talking with someone who knows more than I do about hardware, we've deduced the issue is that:
We store 1.5 TiB of static content on the site. This data is accessed all the time. I tried to save money by buying a big HDD, but this is becoming a problem. As we store so much and it's accessed so often, the one harddrive is bottlenecking the site. As a test, I disabled the Cloudflare's CDN, which automatically caches and serves a lot of static content for us. Doing this instantly threw the disk into 100% utilization and crashed the site. As it stands, we already over-utilize what resources I have and only because I've optimized CF to aggressively cache is the site not already dead. The problem will get worse as the site's archive and the utilization of the archive continues to grow.

4+4x3.4GHz is probably just not good enough for a site this size anymore, at least for the front end. I've been fine tuning things since Chch trying to tard cum the server for everything it's worth and now we're at a limit. I have an entire server dedicated to the backend that is on better hardware with more redundancy, but now I'm going to need to move the front end onto its own hardware. Currently, the KF frontend cohabitates a smaller blade with some other smaller sites.

Also, CrunkLord420 runs the Matrix/Riot and Pleroma instances on Server 4, and that server itself is running out of disk space.

Consider donating via crypto if that's an option for you.

I'm probably going to do a merch run to finance this expansion soon. Will likely try selling stickers since it was highly requested last time. Keep your eyes out for that.
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if you delete my awful avatar, the website will run seamlessly
 
Let's make a lemonade stand, but without the lemonade. Then we call everyone a racist bigot and a kiwiphobe.
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I can't wait to vandalize high voltage boxes and traffic signs with the Kiwifarms decals that will definitely be released, definitely.

By the way, for anyone wondering about shirt quality I got one of the Nool shirts last time around and it's excellent. Very soft, good print makes a great cumrag, survives my awful washing machine practices.
 
Will you restore some of the taxing website features you removed after upgrading the server?
 
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