Slashdot Mirror
Welcome to the new Cluster
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.
Well, everything seems to be working alright. I can log in and post just fine. :)
:D
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.
Cogito ergo sum in Slashdot.
Good lord, that's the last thing I want to imagine the /. crowd doing.
Have you been stalked by Seth today?
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?
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.
On the new server?
Remember to point your HOSTS file to 66.35.250.150!
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?
AYE
That would rule.
--j
Heh.. acid.slashdot.org - I can see it now. We can keep the Amiga and CowboyNeal posts here too! :)
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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?
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.
Using a different server sure would be a hell of a lot simpler if you slashdot guys would get with that whole "web thing" and make all the links on the page RELATIVE instead of ABSOLUTE..
I mean, it's kinda annoying to use brak.slashdot.org only to have every link on every resulting page point to http://slashdot.org anyway.
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
- 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
Let me tell you, those Exodus rooms are BIG, and oddly shaped. It's actually easy to get lost in there.
... lost... and embarrassed...
Just over a year ago, I was part of the IT team to move 50 computers from Exodus to another facility
We had all these computers in a cage in Big Room A. We needed to get all of the equipment to the loading dock, which was on the other side of this huge building.
So there we were, by the back entrance. Got the truck up to the loading dock, loaded some equipment. Then it was time to go back to the cage and get the second batch.
The guard opened the door for us, pointed us down one hallway, and shut the door. *click* Door's locked. We walked down the hallway, opened the door, and entered the cage room.
"Wait," said my friend "Let me make sure this is the right..." *click*
Like in a bad horror movie, the last person into the room let the door slam shut. So we were stuck.
So we walked around for a few minutes, trying to find our way.
"Wait, wait. We're going the wrong way!" said my friend, who had only been here once, and in a different part of the building.
So we turned around and traced our way back to the first door. The door, of course, is locked. We knocked. No answer. We pounded the door. Still no
answer. No intercom. No guard to open the door. The door could be opened in a fire, but that would set off the alarms, halon, whatever. This wasn't
a fire. We were just
So we tried a second hallway, hoping it would be a more direct route to the other door.
"It's this way" my friend said, "I think..."
After walking 100 ft down the hallway, turning left and walking down another hallway and turning past a few more corners, we came to a 4-way intersection, and NOTHING looked familiar. Just a long 100-ft hallway of identical cages in each direction. No landmarks, no maps... blank walls at the end of every hallway.
Being that it was almost Halloween, I half expected our numbers to start droping one-by-one.
So we proceded down a random hallway and came to a blank wall. No door. Turned around , tried another hallway. Blank wall.
"Where'd the fucking door go?"
"I don't know. Maybe we should split up."
"Shuttup. That's what they do in the fucking horror movies."
Eventually we found our way, and everyone survived... except I smashed my foot by dropping a 100-lb loading ramp 2 feet onto it.
But those were good times.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Too much? Easily solved. Just post this link to Natalie Portman nude.. Works every time.
The lovely XML feed says there is an article called Mathematica and BattleBots, but it doesn't seem to exist.
A glitch in the move?
Tuus crepidae innexilis sunt.
... 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)
Could they not just go to brak.slashdot.org and read the posts? It seems that at least one person has already done that.
Cogito ergo sum in Slashdot.
Yes, we fell behind moving schedule, we asked movers if we could postpone sending machines out until slashdot was stable on west coast, they said "No, sorry, our movers will be there Thursday morning to take your servers west." So here we are group of happy sys admins pulling an all-nighter to shove this entire site out west before the moving van arrives. YAY! Sorry about the DNS sloppiness everyone, we should've primed that earlier.
Hm,
/. ppl did not take over the "unban" list from the east cost. Just found out that our entire university got banned from the /. site :( since the proxy got banned, ...
:x
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Luckily there is squid and I have my box at home >:)
It was touch and go there when I was not able to access the geek news in the morning
Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. You can't simply say, "Today I will be brilliant."
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.
Read slashdot last night. Reading slashdot now. On new servers. Didn't notice. Go grab yourself some cocoa and don't beat yourself up about how well you are providing a free service to slashdot geeks :p
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Karma: Profligate. (go ahead and troll)
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Not that I can tell the difference, but why this sudden move from East to West? Was this done for corporate reasons? Where are you located now? May be I can come visit sometime
Congratulations on leaving The Cluster. Perhaps in the dark Universe, you will be light.
sic transit gloria mundi
please continue swimming naked
That visual is definitely one I did not need this early...
I think after you guys moved servers the other day you broke the subscription stuff. I am seeing ads on the homepage and I still have literally thousands of ad-free views left on my subscription.
I'm a 2000 man.
For example, whenever clicking on Wednesday under older stuff, nothing appears! Argh...
Seriously, brak was way fun. Perhaps it would be the best way to do April Fool's - give some carefully selected trolls and jokers editor access for a day, and give everyone tons of mod points - it could be really fucking hilarious, certainly better than 4/1/02 (though the "anon has been disabled" trick was funny).
sulli
RTFJ.
Same here. Everything there but the chewy goodness of content.
Is this any different than how things were originally? In building "the Matrix" (some person's idea of a cool name for a datacenter installation for Andover at Exodus Boston 2), we were rushed and had similar issues. I had hoped things had changed, I wish you and Yazz lots of luck out on the left coast.
:)
Me, I'm just happy to be doing what I'm doing.
no more stress of OSDN, just stress of a newborn child
-Trish
FreeBSD The Power to Serve
(Kinda like the Vikings that discovered America... or the indians who discovered it before them.)
OS Software is like love: The best way to make it grow is to give it away.
Doing MetaMod would have been murder....
OS Software is like love: The best way to make it grow is to give it away.
A small puddle of slime, a pair of shoes and the frayed ends of a pair of pant legs.
And, perhaps, some police tape. ...
OS Software is like love: The best way to make it grow is to give it away.
Didn't you get the memo? BSD is dying, in fact, it's already dead. ;-)
Slackware forever. Honestly, what else would you trust when it absolutely positively has to be stable, secure, and easy