Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! [url=http://repraphelp.chipin.com/repraporg-server-fund]ChipIn to ship donated[/url] servers and hardware to make this forum and RepRap.org faster. I did not set this up, just doing my part and spreading the good word. https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176022#msg-176022 Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:38:53 -0400 Phorum 5.2.23 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,178711#msg-178711 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,178711#msg-178711
The more we know, the more we grow.]]> richrap General Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:15:42 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,178677#msg-178677 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,178677#msg-178677 VDX General Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:07:57 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,178670#msg-178670 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,178670#msg-178670
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And I thought we were all about diversification!

Diversification of printer designs maybe, not diversification of the community. The problem of a community sputtered all over the place is, people can't find each other. And people also can't participate in 20+ community-wannabes.]]> Traumflug General Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:28:35 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,178544#msg-178544 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,178544#msg-178544 -------------------------------------------------------
> People don't have to move, just take more in, if
> you can.

Unfortunately my brain can't cope with the stream-of-conciousness twitter/facebook type stuff. Seems to be designed for ephemeral interchanges, like a souped up IRC.

Freescale moved their support to a facebook type site, god it sucks.

Probably, it means I am just getting old ;)]]> bobc General Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:34:16 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,178494#msg-178494 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,178494#msg-178494 -------------------------------------------------------
> Do check out the G+ communities, they have some
> great stuff going on.
>
> *sigh* Yet more diversification. In case you want
> something from me, stay here.

And I thought we were all about diversification! - the G+ 3D printing group now has 9295 members today and counting... (And no, they are not all 'robots')

People don't have to move, just take more in, if you can.]]> richrap General Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:39:00 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,178472#msg-178472 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,178472#msg-178472
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Do check out the G+ communities, they have some great stuff going on.

*sigh* Yet more diversification. In case you want something from me, stay here.]]> Traumflug General Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:09:29 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,178172#msg-178172 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,178172#msg-178172 RepRap and 3Dprinting as an alternative news fix to the pain of this forum.

Do check out the G+ communities, they have some great stuff going on. The RepRap one only has 180 people at the moment, the 3D printing one has 9147]]> richrap General Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:34:09 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,178165#msg-178165 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,178165#msg-178165 Traumflug General Mon, 21 Jan 2013 05:48:56 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,177993#msg-177993 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,177993#msg-177993 -------------------------------------------------------
> Nobody said anything about the server running
> oBSD. Just that they might want to look at how
> oBSD fundraises to host their servers.

[reprap.org]

"This would initially be a server farms 1Gb/second connection going to a HP proliant server (Donated by SeeMeCNC ), running openBSD and hosting Drupal content management system."

It is in the current version as well:

[reprap.org]]]> jebba General Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:21:48 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,177309#msg-177309 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,177309#msg-177309 Logrod General Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:32:03 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,177270#msg-177270 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,177270#msg-177270 Infact I'd go as far as to say reprap.org is now as fast as any other site I visit, nice tweak! (whatever it was).
Cheers,
Robin.]]> Zedsquared General Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:19:18 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,177259#msg-177259 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,177259#msg-177259
Definitely an improvement from my perspective - in fact I was taken by surprise when the page loaded so quickly to read you message!

Thanks Bill2or3!]]> garyhodgson General Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:33:21 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,177252#msg-177252 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,177252#msg-177252 tprime General Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:17:55 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,177243#msg-177243 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,177243#msg-177243
Thanks to Bill2or3 there have been some adjustments made to the RepRap server. There are more things that we can do, but we want to see what the improvements we have made achieve first.

Please let us know if you see an improvement or if you don't.]]> SallyRepRap General Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:51:58 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176588#msg-176588 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176588#msg-176588 nophead General Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:23:17 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176563#msg-176563 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176563#msg-176563
I don't think admins exist.]]> jcabrer General Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:42:46 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176531#msg-176531 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176531#msg-176531
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nophead
The forums have only been this slow for a few months.

This forum as well as the wiki is still fast at times. Sometimes response times changes from minute to minute drastically.

Perhaps the biggest advantage of a new server is the fact it has to come with a new admin, who (hopefully) does look at performance from time to time and has the capability to take countermeasures for e.g. DNS issues, DoS spamming attacks or other unwanted bottlenecks.]]> Traumflug General Sun, 13 Jan 2013 09:10:56 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176509#msg-176509 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176509#msg-176509
But it seems that one of the original goals of RRRF, to seed the market for materials and designs for Reprap builders has been taken over by the many small companies offering materials and creating innovative designs. There are also dozens of forums and sites where 3d printing development takes place apart from reprap.org.]]> bobc General Sun, 13 Jan 2013 06:42:59 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176441#msg-176441 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176441#msg-176441 Reprap Research Foundation? I happily donated to it before it became broken. If it became fixed, I would consider donating again.

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garyhodgson
I would also ask what kind of revenues the reprap project have from other channels, e.g. advertising, and whether parts of these should be utilised.

Adrian addressed the topic of revenues in a message (Oct 25 2011) to the reprap-dev mailing list: Money]]> MattMoses General Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:18:43 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176418#msg-176418 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176418#msg-176418 VDX General Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:02:25 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176402#msg-176402 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176402#msg-176402 nophead General Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:12:03 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176380#msg-176380 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176380#msg-176380 Logrod General Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:16:46 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176366#msg-176366 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176366#msg-176366
Didn't Tekwizard report it was always fast for him? How can it be fast for some and slow for others if it is a server problem?]]> nophead General Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:07:08 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176357#msg-176357 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176357#msg-176357 SanjayM General Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:03:09 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176356#msg-176356 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176356#msg-176356
Why is OpenBSD being chosen? That greatly limits the number of potential admins. Debian or similar is widely known, but far fewer people know OpenBSD. It limits the pool of admins without many benefits, afaict.]]> jebba General Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:57:40 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176354#msg-176354 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176354#msg-176354
Thanks for the update, and I applaud your efforts to actually do something about this problem!

The only suggestion I can make right away is: if there was a way to donate to the funds, and be sure that the funds are actually used for the intended purpose, then I believe many would happily donate. As you rightly say, this alone wouldn't provide the security necessary, but it would certainly help. So long as I can trust that my donation is not being misappropriated I would certainly do so.

I would also ask what kind of revenues the reprap project have from other channels, e.g. advertising, and whether parts of these should be utilised.

Cheers,
Gary]]> garyhodgson General Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:29:00 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176343#msg-176343 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176343#msg-176343
The current site is running on an old shard server, Apache never has free resources so pages can take over 60 seconds to render, we believe a Raspberry Pi on a home internet connection wold be an improvement.

I was chosen to do this as the IRC channel was angered by the impression the sites gives of the project so I was put forward to negotiate with Dr Adrian Bowyer as I'm a native english speaker and have worked as a systems administrator for a number of international companies.

A data center was chosen in London as it's cheaper then cloud hosting or space in American server farms, the chosen location is close to a number of Reprap people with sysadmin jobs who can change disks or put in new hardware.

A server was bought of Amazon and installed into the Safehost datacenter on Friday the 11th of January.
[www.amazon.co.uk]
[178.239.162.66] (No, you can not have root access)

This server is on loan, the Reprap project need to rase the money to buy a server and pay the monthly hosting fees, if we run a Thingiverse clone we'll need a pool of cash for more servers.
Free server hardware offered for this project were rejected as they were so large and power hungry, the hosting costs would be greater then the cost of a new server after one year.

These are the monthly hosting costs:
Rack space £15/per U
Power - £25 per 0.5A
100Mb Port - £25 per server or
1000Mb Port - £45 per server (we have this option, uncapped)
IP4 at £1
Then add 20% UK VAT.

So the Reprap project need £85 per month just to keep a dedicated server running. Begging every month when the rent is due won't give us any security. I've contacted the fund raiser of the openBSD project, they sell CDs and branded clothes to cover their costs and have enough left over to pay developers to work full time and pay for a presence at conferences.

If anyone know how to set-up accounts for a project like this please get in touch.
If anyone knows if we can be a charity to avoid tax let me know that also.
The Reprap Cafepress site hasn't been updated since 2007, so new artwork suitable for t-shirts would be appreciated.]]> Glen2 General Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:58:32 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176177#msg-176177 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176177#msg-176177 akenvim General Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:39:05 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176150#msg-176150 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176150#msg-176150 akhlut General Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:23:17 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176107#msg-176107 Re: Make this forum and RepRap.org faster, You can help! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,176022,176107#msg-176107
To clear the air, let me explain a bit. I've emailed a few times asking how we as a community could do to help the problem of poor performance on the site/forum/wiki and I did finally get a response from Dr. Bowyer himself. He explained that it wasn't a matter of money to throw at more bandwidth, but it was a matter of hardware/shared hosting/etc.. and recommended that mirroring the server across the globe would be his version of how to help. So, me not being the uber-geek, and not ever setting up a mirrored site etc... before, I just kinda let it pass, and accepted that browsing the wiki and forums would forever be sloooow. However, the last few days on the #reprap IRC have had a few people talking about doing something! User glen2 has put together a plan to improve the situation. You can read all about it on the WIKI page he created for the project. After watching two days of pretty good sounding conversations about it, I decided to help DO something, and contacted glen2 to offer up some of our unused equipment for the project. So, I gave him a list of what servers we had, and told him we'd donate the servers to the cause. He said he'd need to see about how to raise some funds for shipping and other hrdwr etc... to setup/maintain it, so i showed him a site that I've used in the past to collect donations for projects, the chipin.com site. And in a matter of 60 seconds, a lot of the guys on the IRC channel jumped on it!

I know some guys on the IRC are not so sure that this is the best idea, and they have some valid concerns, but here's my personal take on the situation. From everything i've heard and seen, this is not a 2 week process. Glen2 is going to set up the server at the datacenter and get it up as a running new.reprpap.org site, and let everyone start beating it up, and if it works better/faster/stronger, THEN it would become the Plan A, but there's still going to be the Plan B, as the failsafe, and that's to roll back to what we are already using/doing?

I think that anythingthat can help improve the situation is a positive, and worries aside, speculation etc... are valid concerns, but I doubt the 'powers that be' wouldn't push it to a new setup without doing their end and making sure they are comfortable with it. So, just to clear it up, we are donating the servers, the community is helping pay for the initial costs/setup, and glen2 and his help in London would be admin'ing it.

Hope that clears up the confusion]]> johnoly99 General Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:11:24 -0500