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Slashdot is Moving. Help Load Test!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the please-wear-a-hardhat dept.

We're moving the Slashdot cluster from Exodus East to Exodus West in the next couple days. In good Slashdot Tradition, we've opened up brak.slashdot.org for you to help load test the new cluster. Currently its almost an exact copy of our existing setup (missing a couple of webheads which will be up soon). The actual move will occur late at night (most likely tonight or tomorrow depending on how things go), and will hopefully involve only a few minutes of downtime as we copy the last of the data over the continent. Thanks for your help.

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  1. nows a good time to explain..... by _ph1ux_ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    .....the hardware required to run slashdot.

    Its been asked by me before - and I am sure many others...

    can you please give us a rundown on what Slashdot physically and technically looks like?

    1. Re:nows a good time to explain..... by aaarrrgggh · · Score: 5, Interesting

      ...last modified 6/13/00

      Maybe an update is in order?

  2. hey Taco! by tps12 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Since you're apparently in a "meta" mood, can you tell me what happened to Jon Katz? I miss him.

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    1. Re:hey Taco! by Iamthefallen · · Score: 4, Interesting

      That's what he should've been doing here. Some of his "tech from a normal persons view" articles were actually quite entertaining and well written. General technology articles and media commentary, sure. Problem was he attempted some socio-political commentary aswell as some in-depth technical stuff on Slashdot without being able to pull it off.

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  3. Serious question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does this mean that response times will be worse for Europeans? Or does modern routing make that irrelevant?

  4. Exodus by Ratbert42 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Holy crap! Exodus is still in business?