How is cplusplus forum being hosted?
Hello guys,
I am wondering how this C++ forum is being hosted fully 24/7/365. It has been 8 years and the forum is still good and running, to my surprise. Even my previous computer could not live up to 8 years.
* Where exactly is this forum hosted?
* What makes this forum special? Will the forum run out of disk spaces just because new posts are added everyday?
* Was this forum programmed mainly by C++? Is so, that is amazing.
* Does admin have to pay for maintainence cost? Was he the one who did all coding for this forum?
Sorry for my stupid questions but I am just a 16-year-old teenager and I am trying to learn. Thank you very much.
I am wondering how this C++ forum is being hosted fully 24/7/365. It has been 8 years and the forum is still good and running, to my surprise. Even my previous computer could not live up to 8 years.
* Where exactly is this forum hosted?
* What makes this forum special? Will the forum run out of disk spaces just because new posts are added everyday?
* Was this forum programmed mainly by C++? Is so, that is amazing.
* Does admin have to pay for maintainence cost? Was he the one who did all coding for this forum?
Sorry for my stupid questions but I am just a 16-year-old teenager and I am trying to learn. Thank you very much.
| Where exactly is this forum hosted? |
Depends on the experience of the user. Could be hosted by some random hosting site where you pay monthly or yearly. He could have it hosted off a PC running Linux right at his house. He could be using Windows even. I could get an old desktop, install a Linux distro, then set up a site just like this one and all I would end up paying for is the domain name.
| What makes this forum special? |
Dedicated users.
| Will the forum run out of disk spaces just because new posts are added everyday? |
The posts don't really take up that much space.
| Was this forum programmed mainly by C++? |
You can use C++ for CGI, but forums are usually PHP, Javascript, CSS, HTML, and MySQL (or variant there of).
| Does admin have to pay for maintainence cost? |
I would imagine nothing or very minimal if anything.
| Was he the one who did all coding for this forum? |
Yes, I believe the entire site is coded by the admin.
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| It has been 8 years and the forum is still good and running, to my surprise. Even my previous computer could not live up to 8 years. |
Are you sure that it has been up non-stop? It could have very short maintenance breaks occasionally and we probably would not notice.
Some OS releases do get updates for quite a while and thus maintain "same" environment for a forum software. For example, RHEL 5 was released in 2007 and has support to next Spring.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux
Virtualization. The Forum can be on an Virtual Machine (VM). On some setups you can migrate a VM from physical one host to another without interruption. That way you can replace hardware before it breaks.
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If my Firefox plugin, Flagfox, is accurate, the server for the forum is located in Canada.
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167.114.170.15 - Geo Information
IP Address: 167.114.170.15
Host: cplusplus.com
Location: CA CA, Canada
City: Montr�al, QC H3A
Organisation: OVH Hosting
ISP: OVH Hosting
https://www.ovh.com
IP Address: 167.114.170.15
Host: cplusplus.com
Location: CA CA, Canada
City: Montr�al, QC H3A
Organisation: OVH Hosting
ISP: OVH Hosting
https://www.ovh.com
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