ElSeniorTaco

What are you using to store, validate, check, user logins and passwords?

Power line you say? Is the powerline connected to the same outlet as the computer? IF so, move it, connect it somewhere else. maybe when your graphics card spins up hard, it is introducing noise into the line, especially that outlet, and even more especially if that outlet is old. Change your outlets on both ends for new ones if you know how, its only like $1.50 each. I do this for all of my powerline adapters, its the only way to really secure a confident care free connection with these things. You may also be suffering from packet loss somewhere else. If a router or switch is on the fritz, it may surge and drop connections when activity ramps up, If you have a modem on the fritz, it might drop and regain internet at random You should start by doing a ping test. open several command prompts. run ping in each one ping -n 1000 google.com ping -n 1000 127.0.0.1 ping -n 1000 192.168.1.1 (OR WHATEVER YOUR ROUTER IP IS) You can change the number 1000 to 10000+ if you need to run the ping test for a longer duration. To stop the test you can run Control - C look for reply's, you are looking to see if any of the pings fail to respond. This might only happen once or twice in a sea of success. You may also fire this set of pings up and monitor the pings for drops while you play your game. If you see all items skipping, there could be an issue with windows, a driver, or the hardware it's self, If you see just google.com (or your place of choice) skipping, your modem is on the fritz or something down the line might be screwed. Then its your job to complain to the ISP, get a modem replaced first then move forward from there. (keep in mind your modem might be an all in one, as in, your modem might also technically be your router/switch as well.) However, if you see 192.168.1.1 (or your router / gateway IP) skip a beat and/or both google.com and 192.168.1.1 skip a beat..., then you could have an issue between your nic and the switch/router/modem, like a bad connection with your powerline or your switch/router/modem on the lan side is on the fritz Those modem/router combo deals you get from your ISP can have funky hardware issues. You can run into one that has a dead/dying lan side and a good wan side or visa versa Or just one or two ports dying, etc. But your powerline is probably 90% chance the issue I have owned a number of them, they are fidgety and do odd ball things when the connection is wonky Or you have them to close to high current devices, electric motors etc. Replace the outlet or move the powerline device to a different outlet in the room, Make sure the powerline adapter cannot wiggle in the outlet. If it does, that outlet is worn out, and it will not give you the good conduction you need to make a stable connection. Ensure you get a steady green light for good connectivity. If you check the light even now and its flashing or not steady, most likely you have a bad connection even at idle. You can also turn on everything in the room including firing up your game, and see if the connection strength light flickers from green to yellow/red, etc. IF you cannot replace the outlet due to lack of skill, time, etc you'll have to pick the best outlet in the room and use it to the best of your abilities. THIS APPLIES TO BOTH DEVICES ON BOTH ENDS! I've even had to tighten wiring up in breakers, outlets, etc. You'll be surprised by what you find, I was almost yelling on some of my finds. Some people put laziness over safety, and for some reason hate the ground wire and everything it stands for...... Try this out, And let us know what the ping test result in. Those will give us an idea of what devices are involved in the packet loss you are experiencing.

DOA Ram maybe? Have you ever try memtest? (i don't always trust its results, but it might tell you if something is broken) Do you have an SSD?

I will look into this, I had sort of built this based on max performance, as well as speed for recovery of a failed node or drive. But I am curious how much of a trade-off I can do by fattening the nodes up, and what that does to performance. Either way, I agree with this, fatter nodes can lower costs by having fewer core components and more drives being managed by those components. I am going to look deeper into this when I hit work on Monday, trying to figure out the time for recovery and performance for these nodes has been very tricky as there isn't a ton of solid information. You can find a ton of speculation and individual cases, but it's been difficult to hunt down solid reliable information on these subjects. However, I haven't had enough time to keep digging and I think I will just need to continue putting in the leg work until I come up with an algorithm of sorts that I can rely on to gauge what my end result will be I don't think I gave gluster enough of a chance then. I started reading horror stories, and it got worse and worse I will also look much deeper into this option. I am curious if you can squeeze more space out of a gluster system without sacrificing reliability. And how it can be implemented/what features I can offer a client off a system like this. So I will certainly look back into this option as well. I am going to hit the bed as its 2:18 am But I looking forward to seeing what else gets thrown on the table, and what other opinions can be given on two options listed so far.

I edited the above post before you responded. Added the following And I am fairly familiar with Linux and I am comfortable implementing a solution that way, actually, most of my solutions end up on some sort of Linux based OS. Also, I am totally fine starting with used hardware, everything but the drives, and probably battery backups for raid cards if caching is used. For CEPH, my solution was Red Hat OS Used servers with 1 core per drive, 1 socket preferably for this 1gb of ram per TB of storage 1 ssd for every 5 drives for journaling purposes (new ofc) 1 sas/sata card for every 6 drives 2 networking cards, with 10gb ports on it dual redundant power supplies and 10 total 10TB or 6GB WD Gold's or Seagate EXOS drives (new as well ) Per Node And something like 4~7 nodes to start I believe this went out of the budget when I went for 7 nodes but it was interesting and lots of pro's to this system. It's in the top of the list for contenders in this project so far. I had thrown gluster out because of the brain split issues I was reading, but I never confirmed if this was an issue that has been reliably resolved? It could be an old article I was reading

I am going to add this to the main post, but budget wise I am in the 10~50k region, there is flexibility to a point, it all depends on how I sell it and if I can prove its reliability and worthiness of that price tag. And I am hoping to end up with 100tb+ or so if possible, to start out with. But I have realized that can be easy or difficult to achieve at this price depending on how I deliver the final product, aka what type of system do I use. Networking would be 10gbe at least for the intercommunication between the nodes. Also, I believe you can do file, block, and object storage with CEPH. I had looked into something like openstack + CEPH as an option.

So I have been tasked with something that is a bit large for me. I am used to handling some fairly big projects on my own, and normally I will handle this sort of project from the ground up. All the research, implementation, etc. But this one has brought some interesting challenges and some very time intensive research. And a friend thought I should bring it here, and honestly, I thought it would be indeed interesting to see what sort of recommendations I get from this online community. I have been tasked by my job to look into what it will take to start providing an online cloud-style storage service for public use. This means a system that can handle storage of files for a client. Most likely backup files and things of that nature, mostly cold~warm storage stuff. Since this will be a startup, costs is a high priority item, but the main priorities are as follows Reliability Performance Capacity in that order. Now I have come up with something that might be a viable solution and will post it upon request, but as I am looking for recommendations. I don't want to taint the recommendations by posting what I am looking at already. And I don't intend this to become a massive argument for why I should or shouldn't implement my current plan. Instead, I would like others to offer up solutions that they might recommend, and maybe some pros and cons I will be looking into all of them and comparing to see what will best fit all of our requirements. Mainly what I am looking for is some sort of SDS (Software Defined Storage) solution. I am not too interested in looking into proprietary hardware storage solutions like Dell EqualLogic, as the cost can get very expensive very quickly. But still, I will hear out any argument if you want to state your point of what you believe will work and why, regardless if its hardware based or not. Ideally, this system will be used for storage of backups and things of this nature. I don't intend people to use this as some sort of pool for their data-intensive software such as a SQL database, although flexibility is always nice. I am primarily interested in block and/or file style of storage My main focus is Throughput and reliability. IOPS is not at the bottom of this focus list, but it's not the highest priority. I expect customers to store data for the long haul, and most likely large single files. I am thinking something like 3x replication on this system to ensure maximum reliability. I don't expect anyone to hold my hand through any of this, as I will gladly put in the legwork to figure out how a particular solution ticks. But I have hit a point where I have my mind set on a certain system. And I have a sneaking suspicion that I haven't explored as deep as I can, and there may be a contender I have missed. But ultimately I am tasked to take this venture and see how it can be done, what are start-up costs etc. Eventually, if this plays through, in time it will scale into a full-fledged data center. Like I said, I can post what I am looking into currently upon request, otherwise, I am curious to see where your minds wander to.

Imo, It is possible that this is a hardware failure of some kind. Can you recreate the event? Does the computer work fine now? Keep track if it happens again and the frequency in which it happens. If it is a hardware failure, many times it will get worse and worse progressively. Could be anything from motherboard, gpu, psu, maybe ram. I would put my guess on psu or gpu though if it is indeed hardware failure. As a start. If you can indeed replicate it, remove your overclocking and see if it still happens It's helpful to know that when your computer randomly shuts down or hangs with no events but a power failure, alot of times this turns out to be some piece of hardware failing. Generally, in any software related failure, your computer throws up an error/ event along with that blue screen. When it cant throw up a bluescreen, it tends to be the hardware components failing in some way causing a hang, some sort of circuit protection to kick in, or just outright power off / nutty symptoms from voltage fluctuations or some miscalculation etc. This usually causes the OS not to be able to jump in and diagnose what is happening. Although this is not always the case, in many instances it is. But all you can do is keep track of everything you can (symptoms, when and what it was doing when it crashed, any oddities etc) so we can come up with a diagnosis. But before we go chasing after anything we first need to gather more information and determine what this really is. Realistically it can be anything from software to hardware. If you can replicate the problem, it will give us more detail on whats going on and how it occurs. Then from there, we can suggest a diagnosis method / solution etc. Let us know what you find.

I want to clarify, you want to take a few physical hard drives, and drop a vdi file on each one, and then use a vm to connect all the different vdi's together and make a raid drive out of the connected vdi files. And your question is, if you do this, should you use dynamic or static vdi files. If this is indeed the question. I think its possible that it wont matter which one you use, Since the vm software handles the vdi files, I believe your VM wont notice anything special about the drive. but as I have never heard of someone trying this, you might have to just try it and find out. Also you might want to try the idea of recovering with any other linux device

GoDaddy, yahoo web hosting, almost any web hosting company will allow you to buy a domain name. and almost all of them let you transfer it. I usually use go daddy, and never had trouble transferring a domain in or out. Once you buy the domain, you own it, it cannot be taken by someone else. Now when you goto move it, there are steps you need to follow, in order to transfer it etc.

cable splitters will let you output to a bunch of different things

I got one on the way to my office, if I can test it, I will let you know. I think (this is an assumption) that if you have an Intel CPU there should be no problems.

If I remember correctly, HDMI sets up a sort of digital link/ performs a handshake between the two devices, maybe there is something wrong in that link, and thus the tv doesn't even know something is connected. If this is indeed the case, I would try a different adapter, maybe a different model or type. However with the info we got, I am not sure what it is, and this might all be beyond the point. Some testing you can do, plug the same HDMI port into something else and see if it works. Try the same cable as well with that other device and see if it works. Try to connect your computer using the same adapter and cable to another tv and see if it works. All of this will give us some data to play with. But if its not showing up on the tv, as in you cannot select the source, I would think the computer and the TV are not negotiating the link. In that case, I would try a better adapter, maybe the adapter needs a special feature with certain TVs to ensure the link is made, and maybe your adapter doesn't provide this. However my expertise is not in TVs or HDMI, and so I cannot sure, take this with a grain of salt but consider it if you have no other alternatives provided.

try using a VPN, see if this resolves the issue, It should give you an entirely different route for the most part obviously, this isn't a permanent solution, but it will give us an idea of where the choke point is also usually in this situation, I bust out Ping Plotter https://www.pingplotter.com/ It will give you a lot of useful information You should probably run it before the problems occur and during the time of day the problems occur as well, do a comparison and see what changes on the route. Also this could be your ISP doing priority or something nutty like that, This could be a possibility, they may limit certain places that stream based off the ISP's own preferences, thus giving you this issue either way, losing twitch during a very specific time period, sounds like an ISP issue

You can use speedfan or hwinfo to increase the speed of the fans on board if your chipset is compatible with these programs. But I would invest in some good thermal paste as others have suggested and replace it And also what stateofpsychosis said, there is most likely a lot of dust inside, I found a wad of what looked like dryer lint in my Alienware once, it was literally half an inch thick.. If so, you might have to consider that your fan can be dying from being strangled to death by dust and what not. It might not be, but I would start by tearing down the laptop and cleaning all the dust from it, then seeing if the fans spin up at full speed properly (assuming you know what properly is in your specific case), if they are going a little slow then they might need to be replaced. if that doesn't fix it, you need to replace the paste for sure, although depending on how old the computer is, it might be a good idea to replace the paste anyhow.