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Welcome to the new Cluster

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the here-we-are dept.

We're up and running on the new cluster at Exodus West. The hardware configuration is almost identical to what we had on the east coast, just a few time zones over. No doubt we'll be working out a few kinks over the next few days, so hang in there. Now that that's over with, please continue swimming naked.

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  1. Ah, that new server smell... by Bobulusman · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, everything seems to be working alright. I can log in and post just fine. :)

    The only thing I noticed is that since almost all the links point to slashdot.org, simply using brak.slashdot.org until DNS updates will not work. I've already updated my host file to fix this.

    Anyway, congrats. :D

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    Cogito ergo sum in Slashdot.
  2. First Post by cscx · · Score: 5, Informative

    On the new server?

    Remember to point your HOSTS file to 66.35.250.150!

  3. Temporary solution by Devil's+BSD · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you use anything with a HOSTS file (yes, i believe even XP has it under C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\drivers\etc), you can add a line that says
    66.35.250.150 slashdot.org www.slashdot.org slashdot any_other_aliases_you_feel_like_having
    Of course, if you didnt have access to the new server, you wouldnt be reading this... right? At any rate, this solves any DNS misdirections due to the server move, and it will even let you access slashdot using the DNS should the root servers of the internet actually fail.

    --
    I'm the Devil the Windows users warned you about.
  4. Ok not a clean move as everyone would have liked. by Aaton · · Score: 5, Informative
    Looks like some miss communications. Its kinda working.

    • Yes the $TTL 1D was set to high. I'll be taking the heat for that one for awhile I think.
    • Spent all day today trying to build enough machines, 8 server died in shipping. Not enought time talking to everyone involved.
    • The admins were thinking everything was going to just go to http://brak.slashdot.org/ for a bit. The Developers were thing something else.
    • Admins thought the Arrowpoint could do the RedirectMatch we were looking for. It can and it can not.
    Well this was the first site to move from Boston Exodus 2 and well we will try to do better on the next group of website.

    --Yazz

  5. Re:why the move by Aaton · · Score: 5, Informative
    OSDN is part of VA Software you knew that already, and the main offices for VA Software are in Fremont CA. The machines in Boston MA are moving to Santa Clara CA. The office in Acton MA is closing and moved to a smaller place in downtown Boston.

    In the end its a budget thing. I don't know the full answer, I just try to keep machines working....

    PS: Which means I'm moving to San Francisco CA since CowboyNeal I think would hate having to be on-call.

  6. Re:why the move by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Basically, in order to save money, VA got rid of the Acton office and layed off yet more people in the process.
    Then, in order to run more machines with less admins, all the servers are being moved to the west coast so that the current already overworked admins still working there can also admin the OSDN machines.
    Part of the OSDN stay got layed off, part quit, and part is moving/moved to the west coast where the machines are now located (well, you also have the ones who can work from home regardless of where the servers are located. Lucky you :).

    I sincerely wish good luck to the part of the crew that's still there running the show in the background, I wish them the best of luck, and thank them for putting the extra hours so that we can still benefit from ./ sf.net, and the other
    sites that we all know and love