Major server upgrade; can you tell?

[StangFlyer]

Everyone - You should now notice some improvement on the message board, and various other non-msgboard pages on both MustangWorks.com and FunFord.com also (More so on FFW than MW). Last night I finished building a box to replace the machine that had been running as our secondary server (a Win2K box); hosting our MS SQL and MySQL databases, MW & FFW MsgBoard files, as well as various other things.

Although, our Unix server still runs most of the web site pages and applications for MW at this time, the Win2K box does run the entire MW MsgBoard. The old machine was only a PII-300Mhz box with 128 megs of ram and it was getting the hurt put on it during peak usuage hours by the message board. However, the new machine that I've just replaced it with is a 1.6 Ghz AMD Athlon XP server with 784 Megs of 266Mhz 2100 DDR ECC Ram and has twin 7200 RPM ATA 100 40 GB drives running RAID 0. Can you say, big difference?

On this end (physically using the machine) it was like going from a 4-cylinder Mustang to a Mustang drag car! I hope that this serious upgrade improves life for everyone...