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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. I agree by PhysicsGenius · · Score: 1, Troll
    I would like to know what happened to one of the most insightful and prolific (not to mention good at spelling) writers Slashdot has ever had.

    I would also like to know why Slashdot is suddenly pandering to the Silicon Valley crowd by moving the servers to the West Coast, leaving us Right Coasters with high latency and slow connections (than usual, I mean).

  2. Imagine by Bodhammer · · Score: 0, Troll

    A beowolf custer of these things...

    --
    "I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
  3. Nice job!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Perform a major move in the middle of the day. During production! And, surprise surprise, screw everything up!!!!!!!!

    Nice Job!!

  4. Turn off the ads by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 0, Troll

    In good Slashdot Tradition, we've opened up brak.slashdot.org for you to help load test the new cluster.

    C'mon, admit it, you just want the extra ad impressions so you can boost Your faltering stock above $1 long enough so you don't get delisted.

  5. Re:hey Taco! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    can you tell me what happened to Jon Katz?

    After all the 15-year-old boys he used to molest turned 16, he decided to go on a NAMBLA-sponsored underage gay sex vacation. (Don't click the link if you're at work!) He should be much chipper upon his return to /.