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Data Center Move Goes Awry for TypePad

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sloooow-responses dept.

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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  1. Well.. by Cruithne · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure our linking to them will help immensely with the slowness!

  2. It's what they do by bypedd · · Score: 5, Funny
    "...amid very public complaints by its blogger customers"

    But that's why we love bloggers! We wouldn't expect any less.

  3. Oh, real smart... by VE3MTM · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Hear about ailing server
    2. Post story about said ailing server on /., including a link to the site.
    3. ???
    4. Whatever you're expecting here, it ain't profit.

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  4. Heh, I did that. Twice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  5. A Solution! by Macblaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    If Typepad was utilizing Sun's $1 per gigabyte and per hour of processing time then such slowdowns wouldnt be a problem...

  6. Re:Living up to their name by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.