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in the club3g meets, i remember awkwardly standing around while guys loudly debated which transmission model number to use with a 3.5L mivec swap. and in the more recent days of celica meets, i try to change the conversation as everyone jumps in debating specific engine production codes. yeah, nothing's changed.
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This was all fine and dandy when the cars wouldn't be going much over 65 mph at the end of the quarter mile. Then one night we watched Dwight's new 409 Chevrolet take on John's Corvette. Yep, bumper to bumper all the way down the quarter mile, with a speed that was waaaaay too unsafe for the country road - The drag racing days on our country roads ended - humfrz |
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It was a joyous time to be a teenager and I was so disappointed when I came back from Germany to find they had let other cars use our road!
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It's runs on IBM Cloud on a dedicated server. Not a shared host with hundreds of other sites. I know you like to talk about things as if you actually know about them but perhaps just do a little research first next time (outside of google searching for "web hosting").
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But if you want to use bluehost as a comparison, their cheapest virtual private server costs 19/month (paid in advance then 30/month) and includes 1 IP, 2GB RAM, 2 cores, 30GB storage and 1TB of bandwidth. Their cheapest actual dedicated server is $80/month (with contract, normally $120/month) and includes 4 cores, 4GB ram, 500GB storage, 5TB bandwidth and 3 IPs. This site's database is def bigger than the small VPS will support and with all the attachments over the last decade (site started in 2009 IIRC) it's probably well past 500GB also. Whatever it costs (my best guess would be at least a couple hundred a month, more depending on backup strategy) is really a drop in the bucket in the real world. Hosting my environment in both private and public clouds is closer to 7 figures a month than it is to 5 figures a month.
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As others have already said. It isn’t the down time it’s the risk of losing the knowledge base due to a crash. I remember TOV (a Honda forum in the late 90s early 2000s) when down and all the data was gone for good. TOV has a lot of technical threads unlike most car forums that are flooded with questions about which intake to buy and what exhaust sounds best. Another forum I miss was RSC (a simracing forum) that was loaded with really good knowledge on fabricating cockpits, pedals, etc. They had a DB crash and no backup. There have been some good replacements for RSC but none of them have the same level of fabricating that RSC had.
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there's always archive.org
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A portion of this website's value comes from availability. A small portion. If it's down, people get annoyed (obviously) but in the end it doesn't matter unless it's down forever. And that's because the significant portion of this website's financial value is in it's data. This website IS a business. The owners never wanted that from what I recall 5-6 years ago when I had these conversations with Hachi but that's what it's become. Maybe not a huge money maker, but this site makes money. Period. Therefore it's a business and business's care about data. Backups will be for the data. Multiple web servers, load balancers, database clusters, etc are all an expense to increase availability. For this site, that may not be worth the expense. Backups of the data however are well worth the expense. After all, what would annoy you more? The site being down for 2 days or the site simply losing it's entire database but never actually going offline? And yes, to the post above, there are archive solutions. These are imperfect (attachments for example) but are helpful.
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I don't know, but have always suspected, that the roughly 20 minute daily down times at 9:am and 2:am (eastern time) were when the site backs up.
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