Location: Melbourne, Australia
Michael will recognise this stuff!
Ten years of the Railpage forums
bevans
Site Admin
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Michael will recognise this stuff!
michaelgreenhill
Administrator That's Numberwang!
Location: Melbourne
The original Fang was a tower, wasn't it? Stretching my memory now...
I'd just like to remind everyone that Railpage is growing beyond the forums! We have a fantastic, community-driven image gallery, the Locations database for great photography spots and an enormous resource in the Locos database. I encourage everyone to take a look around the site and get engrossed in everything we have to offer!
I'd just like to remind everyone that Railpage is growing beyond the forums! We have a fantastic, community-driven image gallery, the Locations database for great photography spots and an enormous resource in the Locos database. I encourage everyone to take a look around the site and get engrossed in everything we have to offer!
bevans
Site Admin
Location: Melbourne, Australia
I am saving the best 'til last!
What about these machines?
Regards
Brian
s3_gunzel
Not a gunzel developer
Location: Western Sydney, AU
I am saving the best 'til last!
Awww....
xxxxlbear
Token Booking Clerk
Location: Geelong
To be brutally honest, the photos dont impress me at all....but then again I know next to nothing about computers, and have no idea what I am looking at (except that I can recognise a cd/dvd drive, and the rather old floppy drive) !!!! 
TheLoadedDog
The Ghost of George Stephenson
Watson374
Chief Commissioner
Location: Fully reclined at the pointy end.
inb4 admin
TheLoadedDog
The Ghost of George Stephenson
OK, you win. 8)
xxxxlbear
Token Booking Clerk
Location: Geelong
inb4 admin
Oh, I remember these
The abacus!!!!
wurx
Lithgovian Ambassador-at-Large
Location: The mystical lost principality of Daptovia
Fang....
TLD™ that compy is so Italian Job! 8)
GeoffreyHansen
Minister for Railways
Location: In a FAM sleeper
Happy Birthday Railpage! I joined around 2004. One of my first posts was about the Murwillumbah railway line.
K160
Minister for Railways
Location: Bendigo
10 years, hasn't that gone quick!
IIRC I joined on the 14th January 2003 under another username. I'd been using RP before the forums as a handy site to find rail site links.
Here's to the next 10 years. 8)
409
Minister for Railways
I've only just remembered that I archived a few outage messages a few years ago, still good for a laugh even now. Enjoy!
wurx
Lithgovian Ambassador-at-Large
Location: The mystical lost principality of Daptovia
That was a nice little trip down memory lane, thanks 409 
mikado5910
Chief Train Controller
Location: Kurri Kurri NSW
My tenth anniversary comes up on 10 July next, so I'm a relative laggard compared to some others upthread. I only post when I think I have something worthwhile to say, so my numbers are fairly low. However, my busy life keeps me away from lineside for months at a time, so the forums are essential in keeping me up to date with happenings around the country. Thanks to all who keep RP online!
mynameismike
Deputy Commissioner
Location: /dev/adelaide/magill
Marvelous effort 409. Simply marvelous...
bevans
Site Admin
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Found another image. The top server was the actual database server. A Sun Microsystems X2200.
Regards
Brian
Graham4405
The Ghost of George Stephenson
Location: In exile
Found another image. The top server was the actual database server. A Sun Microsystems X2200.
Regards
Brian
We have a number of X2100 & X2200 boxes at work. Used mostly as Squid proxies running CentOS 6 these days.
s3_gunzel
Not a gunzel developer
Location: Western Sydney, AU
At least they're getting used, Graham. My G4 is still sitting in my bedroom waiting for me to fix it.
joffie
Chief Commissioner
Location: Melbourne
Certainly been an interesting 10 years!
bevans
Site Admin
Location: Melbourne, Australia
As promised, the original FANG server in the state it was when shutdown.
Regards
Brian
Gwiwer
Rt Hon Gentleman and Ghost of Oliver Bulleid
Location: Loitering in darkest Somewhere
As promised, the original FANG server in the state it was when shutdown
Regards
Brian
Wonder how she would feel now knowing we are not only at 10 years of the forums but steadily approaching our 2 millionth post therein.
Is that toasting I smell?
Webslave
Site Admin
Location: Altona, Melbourne
Just happened across this thread this evening and brought a tear to this old gents eye.
When I joined the site was actually hosted on the infamous Mule server, which as Michael partially recalls was a tower stuffed into a rack in the Prodigy DC in the ASX building. I'm pretty sure it wasn't the grey monstrosity in Brian's last photo, but it was similar and I vividly remember its green-backlit LCD that scrolled system information across it until its dying days.
When we outgrew Mule Michael and I left it in the DC but without telling our boss at the time decided to repurpose it as an Unreal Tournament server. I remember many a hot summer night playing UT until 4am on FacingWorlds.
The retirement of Mule saw the arrival of Fang which actually is the machine Brian posted a picture of (labelled with Fang). Many will look back fondly at a time that was almost comical in its ups and downs. It's a testament to the site and community that it still continued to grow in usage at a stupidly high rate with the box only up for a quarter of a day - with page loading times measured in tens of seconds no less! The machine needed reboots multiple times a day, and when it would crash during the evening peak it would have to wait until the next morning.
Fang eventually got a friend in Morpheus (named after the UT level, actually) if my memory serves me correctly. Morpheus spent its days variously crashing under the weight of the database, and using up spare processor cycles on the Seti@Home project.
There's plenty more, but instead there's this gem:
http://www.guitaraustralia.com/RPTheme.mp3
Thanks for the memories, guys. I'll never forget it.
James.
bevans
Site Admin
Location: Melbourne, Australia
James,
I have morpheus in storage!!
BTW: I it great to hear from you old buddy!
Regards
Brian
I have morpheus in storage!!
BTW: I it great to hear from you old buddy!
Regards
Brian
Webslave
Site Admin
Location: Altona, Melbourne
I'm still around on occasion - just usually frightfully busy. Pity...
Earlier today I was trying to list off the servers we had over the years when I was around, not to mention what each of them did.
The ones I remember right now are:
- Mule
- Fang
- Morpheus
- Orac
- Aramis
- Gh0dz0r
- Shaft
- Zen
- Wangcaster?
- Blackbeard
- Cacti