SteamID updates - Nov-2021 (Hardware & Backend)

Its been a while since I have done an update, While there has been updates here and there to the website front end the majority of work has been done in the background.

The site has been supporting between 500 to 700 users online at once and staying online, mainly bots but a lot of work has been made to get the site more stable. We have multiple databases now driving SteamID day to day along with its own management website / controller which has been written and slowly day by day tasks are being moved over. This has been a long project, but I have been pulling more tasks away from the website and hardware that you, the end user is using to hopefully get a bit more performance as the database and service grows.

Off site or on site for me I’ve swapped out the 10GB switches for a much newer dell switch that only seems to use around 30 watts of power, and I’ve sold some hardware which leaves me with some backup servers. Since the last update I have acquired a dell R440 and a custom built 2U server for storage with a bunch of 3TB SAS drives and SAS SSD storage. The R440 has been upgraded already.

Between the 2 x 1U bays there is around  44 CPU cores and over 600GB of DDR4 ram but most importantly, one of the servers is running with 8 x 400GB 12GBPS write intensive SAS SSDS in a raid 10 giving some pretty wild performance with a bit of redundancy. (Around 3GB/s write and 7GB/s read) I manage to get a good deal on some new, old stock and these drives needed some work to get them to work with the server but the risk paid off. The cheapest I could find them, in stock with an online retailer was just under £7,000. I have invested as I have killed two more 1TB NVME drives and the database really does smash the disks hard.

On Discord there are a bunch of channels which show bans as SteamID find them including rust EAC bans. The EAC bans are now included in the SteamID API. As part of this I learned a bit pf python and nodeJS and that’s how I have implemented it.

At some point in the near future I need to get the main database off the current server but I think that’s it for update for now, Just lots (and I mean lots) of work going on in the background that pretty much goes unnoticed unless I mess up and everything goes down. Running the SteamID site just continues to expand beyond what I had ever imagined requiring tens of thousands of pounds worth of equipment and what feels like managing infrastructure for a medium to large business, I’ve learned so much and continue to learn from it and hopefully that continues.