Physics Forums: History, Founder & Ownership

[Danger]

So the server is one computer?

 

[Evo]

So the server is one computer?

Basically.

 

[Danger]

Wow! I think that I want one...

 

[Dawguard]

So the server is one computer?

Is that why I often get an error loading the page: it sights a failure to connect to the server, and it doesn't matter what browser I use.

 

[chroot]

The webserver itself is on a single computer, but the database is likely on a much more powerful computer shared by many web servers.

I actually don't know much about the site's new configuration, since it was moved just a week ago.

- Warren

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Is that why I often get an error loading the page: it sights a failure to connect to the server, and it doesn't matter what browser I use.

Right, having a web server redundacy setup would be enormously expensive.

warren, the web server and db server are on the same machine, unlike the last datacenter where the db was on a different machine.

 

[Lisa!]

haha I always wondered why you never had a response to that

The surprising part is that he had a post on page 1 of that thread(well that was before your post)

 

[Ratzinger]

So what was the first post, the first question asked on PF?

And who was the first supermentor?

Please open the book of Genesis for us.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

So what was the first post, the first question asked on PF?

And who was the first supermentor?

Please open the book of Genesis for us.

Not sure about the first post because we had to wipe the db in order to move and upgrade the software. The first mentor was Phobos who recently retired.

 

[Monique]

I remember having a CD with the PF database on it several years ago.. but I think I lost it

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I remember having a CD with the PF database on it several years ago.. but I think I lost it

I still have one left, but that was still PF2, PF1 will be lost forever

If we didn't wipe twice we'd be over a million posts!

 

[Evo]

I still have one left, but that was still PF2, PF1 will be lost forever

That's terrible.

 

[scott1]

So what was the first post, the first question asked on PF?

On PF 3 it might be this one
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=58

Why are you so intersted?

 

[Mk]

I think the first traceable post was this one: https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=56

 

[Evo]

I think the first traceable post was this one: https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=56

That would be the second version of PF, but nice to see posts from back then.

Too funny, the first thread was Lisa!

 

[Astronuc]

I still have one left, but that was still PF2, PF1 will be lost forever

Ouch.

It would be nice to have this whole thing on a DVD set. There is so much valuable information here, especially in the Math and Science forums.

If we didn't wipe twice we'd be over a million posts!

As of a minute ago, PF had:

Threads: 91,355
Posts: 860,097
Members: 33,578

 

[JamesU]

That would be the second version of PF, but nice to see posts from back then.

Too funny, the first thread was Lisa!

Was Lisa! really a member? or a joke?

 

[Evo]

Was Lisa! really a member? or a joke?

It was just a thread title, referring to Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, but he used Lisa!.

 

[JamesU]

It was just a thread title, referring to Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, but he used Lisa!.

I know, I was just going off topic about the member Lisa!

 

[mattmns]

When I first saw the thread title (Lisa!) I thought it was a joke! Now I am just freaked out

 

[Mk]

You guys are wimps. Scared by a little schoolgirl. She isn't even holding a wrench like last time.

 

[Lisa!]

You guys are wimps. Scared by a little schoolgirl. She isn't even holding a wrench like last time.

That's a schoolboy, dear!

 

[dav2008]

I created PF and sold it to Greg for $5 and a Mars bar.

Best sale of my life.