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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."
I'm sure our linking to them will help immensely with the slowness!
But that's why we love bloggers! We wouldn't expect any less.
1. Hear about ailing server /., including a link to the site.
2. Post story about said ailing server on
3. ???
4. Whatever you're expecting here, it ain't profit.
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 Whoops, silly middle mouse button...
At least myspace and livejournal aren't down, I'd hate to see the damage the roving bands of displaced angstbombs and emo kids could inflict upon the internet.
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.
Hey, if it happens, we'll have to post a link about the Akamai outage and see if it happens again.
RichM
Data Center Knowledge
If Typepad was utilizing Sun's $1 per gigabyte and per hour of processing time then such slowdowns wouldnt be a problem...
Internap's facilities are pretty big. When we moved our stuff into their Seattle facility about three years ago, they were at 60% capacity. Now they are at 97% capacity. This facility has hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of racks each of which is capable of holding 48 1U servers. They recently gutted a conference room and a large staging area space so they could add more. I believe Internap has 25 similar facilities worldwide. They are doing brisk businesss.
Before we committed our 3 racks of servers to a data center, one of our primary research factors was the availability of growth capacity for our data center.
To that end, we chose to host our servers in an Emeryville data center rather than the same provider's Sacramento data center.
They were able to contractually guarantee 5 more racks, and 100 more amps of power, giving us the room to grow.
You can buy cheap, but it ends up biting you in the butt. Make sure that you look at your long-term goals when deciding where to set up shop.
How do bloggers complain when they can't blog? Are they smart enough to handle email?
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.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
That's a pretty cheesy quote, son, but then again, you have to milk these things for all they're worth.
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.