He already stated he would eventually move to nginx if apache became the bottleneck.

Think about what servers you are on now.

https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/

OVH allows huge bandwidth, you can get a full 100 Mbps line, intel e3 1245v2 processor with 2x SSD 120GB drives for under $100 a month. That would be a heck of a DB server. Mirror raid that for read performance and data security. Have that sit behind the main server as the DB server, and toss another one out in front with nginx as the main server. for $180 a month... you've got a solid set up. Each server has 32 GB of ram in it.

Their virtual rack price is a little bit expensive compared to most solutions (But their servers are much cheaper) Virtual rack you can communicate between the two servers on a local lan and not use the public bandwidth and shield the DB server a little bit. Local connection is at a gig. It appears even without the virtual rack though, that you can communicate with local IPs to other servers. Have not tested that and not as secure as a virtual rack.

If you're hosting with softlayer, you are probably already paying for a similar processor for about $200 a month, and tapped at 5 TB bandwidth with a fraction of the ram.

If it's just the database, you could always move to a MySQL cluster set up. Dedicated web server upfront (I like nginx and no license needed, still better than apache) and then the cluster sits behind and databases away.

How bottlenecked is the database? I only see it slow when slashdotting or something like this happens.

If you've switched drugs after the OP, could you please let me know what you used before you typed it up? What you're on now doesn't sound as fun.

Could you kindly point me to the seller you buy drugs from on silk road. I've got to get some of whatever you're on. Sounds amazing.

Sorry, when they grouped it in with the Mormon church, I thought they were merely making a conclusion based off the gold being legal tender and their insults towards the Roman Catholic Church. I have no knowledge about Utah liking bitcoins and searching the forums Mike's name is the only thing that keeps popping up when browsing for Utah.

Oh my goodness... this was posted under a different username with the top half ending at luke-jr and I didn't get it, ignored it. Checked again and the pope posted it... I wish I would have taken notice who it was... lol. too funny. Bad management of multiple user accounts.

This is from over a year ago. Google it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/22/utah-gold-standard-silver_n_865333.html

That's not the pope's bitcoin address. His address has 1PopeB in it, case sensitive!

I found it, here: 1PopeBq2nUPzkSdRwDR1TF1KLn2eKroVv4

Holy crap, it's the freaking pope!

What you say, isn't very clear, but I understand. Just sucks when I paid a transaction fee and waited 15 minutes. You might have some pools discriminating against your bets.

Never responded to me. Why didn't I win this bet?

I was actually researching the proof of work concept for preventing email spam called hash cash. And stumbled on bitcoin.

Thank you! IP can still be verified, but this way it isn't plain text.

I appreciate your response yesterday and today in making your service better. I consider the minor incident that you had a hell of a lot better than the tradgedy that happened when MtGox's database was leaked with poorly hashed passwords and email addresses.

I'd like to see the logged IP addresses at blockchain.info hashed with a secret key so that they aren't just stored plaintext in the databse, but could still be validated for locking by ip or password lookup.

Shut the fuck up. I didn't say you did. I'm asking for IP's to be hashed as well, and they can still be looked up problematically.

Hashing it would not prevent looking it up if programmed that way. But would prevent it from being plaintext in the database. You can't hash the email or the sms because you use those to send notices.

Would you consider hashing the IP addresses for privacy? With a secret key, you could easily verify previous access as the creating IP address or the most recent address but could shield privacy further. This was a shock to many people that you save this kind of information when previously it was said that no tracking information was kept.

Comment in the post and comment about the post have me laughing. Bitcoins are backed by nothing. What are the dollar bills in my pocket backed by again? That are constantly losing value when they print more? I'm confused.

lol. I hope you rot in bitcoin hell for stealing some newbies coins you bastard.

I didn't even watch the videos at first. I just wanted an address and proof. Then he provided none. Of course he couldn't. He's just trying to steal some coins.