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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. Why the move? by cherrypi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hey guys, why the move from the east? Ya guys gonna stay located in Michigan or move to the demonpit of cali-forn-i-a?

  2. now - seriously by lingqi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think I speak for everyone (or, a lot of people) when I say that brak.slashdot.org was really neat (in a "we are all tripping on acid from the 30 mod points and silly stories / posts") kind of way...

    How about putting up an "alternative universe slashdot" for us to play on?

    (everyone who was "stress testing" brak please say "aye")

    --

    My life in the land of the rising sun.

  3. OT, but great book on Linux clustering by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, I know this is off topic, but I just found an awesome book on Linux clustering, written by the same guy that did a bunch of other O'Reilly books. Of course you can't really be on topic with this discussion now can you ;)

    I'm curious, how did Slashdot set up the cluster system? Full time maintenence on staff or did they contract it out?

  4. why the move by ibennetch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    have we any idea what prompted the move? I can't imagine it was for a bigger pipe; and previously (according to the FAQ) the techs were within a short drive of the facility...so now are there new network/db techs or has everyone moved, or as a third option; when there's trouble does CowboyNeal flap his wings and everyone hold on for the ride across the country?

  5. New cluster hardware is... by Kurt+Gray · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... as Rob said, same as was on east coast: 4 quad-pentium VA 4450 DB servers running MySQL and Red Hat 7.x, plus 9 VA 2251 web servers running Debian and Apache + mod_perl + slash. Load balancing across web servers via Arrowpoint CS800 switch (which is now a Cisco product). The move was in order to consolidate our network operations on west coast. Choice of Exodus over other colos was that we've been overall satisfied with Exodus service and costs, and the datacenters we occupy are owned by Exodus parent, Cable&Wireless, by all appearances they have a stable parent company, but you can never guess what financial status a telco will be in 12 months from now the way the telco market has been in the past 2 years: look at WorldCom 18 months ago as compared to today... who knew? but they're not about to close their doors but still, every telco has bad-looking finances these days but doesn't mean their datacenters will go dark next week. (These are only my own opinions by the way, not official opinions of OSDN, and IANATFABJASATYVM: I am Not A Telco Financial Analyst but Just a Sys Admin, Thank You Very Much)

  6. Google Slashdot by De+Lemming · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Did you notice the search button now says "Google Slashdot?"

    One of the articles (besides the total nonsense "test test blablabla" kind) on brak.slashdot.org was "What search features would you like on Slashdot?" The tread gone now, as they mirrored slashdot.org to brak.slashdot.org. But the use of Google as search engine was one of the suggestions in this thread. And it seems they are testing that suggestion now.