Data Center Move Goes Awry for TypePad

miller60 writes "Problems during a switchover between data centers have slowed TypePad, the popular blog hosting service. Typepad maxed out its data center space and all available power at Internap, and is in the process of moving to a new data center. The transition has not gone smoothly, causing the Typepad service to slow to a crawl amid very public complaints by its blogger customers. TypePad operator Six Apart promises things will improve soon."

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Heh, I did that. Twice

[Anonymous Coward]

In the dot bomb era, I was working at a very large porn site. We moved our site twice to escape bills. This is essentially how it goes down:

1. Get all your DNS updates ready.
2. Shut everything down all at once at your low peak use time.
3. Submit your DNS changes (or move your own dns servers in advance to new location).
4. As fast as you can pile servers, routers, firewalls, switches, etc into vans, trucks, etc.
5. Drive at 80 miles an hour to new data center hoping to fuck that pot hole you just hit didn't fuckup some scsi drives.
6. As fast as you can unload all servers and re-set up your system.
7. Spend about 24-48 hours fixing shit.
8. Get drunk.

I'm not kidding. I did this twice with more than 100 servers.

Re:Heh, I did that. Twice

[LogicX]

I also did some crazy datacenter moves -- they went a little different:

Squeeze as many virtual hosts onto as few boxes as possible.
Move the cleared off boxes to the new datacenter, get them up and running, with a ton of IPs
Move swaths of virtualhosts and users at a time --
update DNS to point to the new box, create www2.domain pointing to the new box
update old box virtualhost with a 301 redirect of everything to www2.domain

All traffic moves to the new NOC, all that remains are redirects for a few hours while dns caches around the world updating.

Great method for moving hundreds of MB/sec of traffic in no time.

Six Apart??

[Khyber]

TypePad operator Six Apart promises things will improve soon.

I don't want to sound like a troll post. Sadly, there may be no other way to actually make sense with my question. We're talking about the same Six Apart that consistently gets in the way of free speech, suspends accounts, paid or not, for the absolute most whimsical reason, and the very same Six apart that will delete your community if it doesn't serve their consumerist policy? (like my LJ community DIERIAA {legal links to music offered freely for public download on the net by the record labels/copyright owners themselves} was terminated for no reason, never even had it's first post made, it just got wiped out, just for it's name.)

We're talking about THAT Six Apart, right? The one that doesn't give half a shit about you, as long as they can steal your money Six Apart? Thank the deities that I never paid for one of their accounts. I've said worse on my webpages and not once has the Secret Service complained, not until Six Apart took over LiveJournal, that is.

I apologize for this seeming like a troll post. I've had my own horrible experiences with LJ/SA, and for once, I had a chance to vent out my frustrations, and let it be known what I see LJ/SA to be. This is a personal opinion, so if you are in possession of better experiences, let them be known and put me into my place, please. But I still wish to know.. Improve? What are they going to improve upon, their volunteer idiots to ban and suspend journals or communities without even following their own set policies? Surely you're joking.