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Help Slashdot Test Our New Data Center

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it-seems-like-only-yesterday dept.

After many years of living in California, Slashdot is preparing to move to a new data center in Chicago, and we need your help. We have our new site running a dump of our database from a few days ago. You can hit it at beta.slashdot.org. Please go there, post comments, submit stories, and do whatever you do normally. Or maybe abnormally — run crawlers, write poll spamming robots or something. If you find any crazy issues, please submit them to our sourceforge tracker. If you're curious, the new system features 18 2x quad-core 2.3 GHz webservers each with 8 gigs of RAM, and 4 quad-core 2.3 GHz databases with 16 gigs of RAM.

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  1. new account by altair1230 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I couldn't create a new account on beta.slashdot.org

  2. Re:More info about the hardware? by Precision · · Score: 5, Informative

    On the Web servers, the specs are

    Dual Quad Core Intel E5345 with RAID 1 of 2xSATA drives

    On the Database boxes

    Single Quad Core Intel E5345 with RAID 5 of 7xSAS drives w/ a hot spare

    All machines are 2xGigE connected to cabinet switches which are 10G connected to our cores and our Dual 10G uplinks

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    - U
  3. Re:Ah, the Data Center robbery center of America! by hakr89 · · Score: 5, Informative

    They're not being hosted out of CI Host, they're being hosted out of Savvis.

  4. Re:Obligitory by Hatta · · Score: 5, Informative

    iblis% sudo nmap -A -T4 beta.slashdot.org

    Starting Nmap 4.53 ( http://insecure.org/ ) at 2008-05-23 15:00 CDT
    SCRIPT ENGINE: rpcinfo.nse is not a file.
    SCRIPT ENGINE: Aborting script scan.
    Interesting ports on beta.slashdot.org (216.34.181.45):
    Not shown: 1704 closed ports
    PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
    21/tcp open tcpwrapped
    25/tcp filtered smtp
    80/tcp open http Apache httpd 1.3.41 ((Unix) mod_perl/1.31-rc4)
    135/tcp filtered msrpc
    136/tcp filtered profile
    137/tcp filtered netbios-ns
    138/tcp filtered netbios-dgm
    139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn
    443/tcp open ssl/http Apache httpd 1.3.41 ((Unix) mod_perl/1.31-rc4)
    445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds
    Device type: general purpose
    Running (JUST GUESSING) : OpenBSD 4.X (91%)
    Aggressive OS guesses: OpenBSD 4.1 (x86) (91%), OpenBSD 4.0 - 4.2 (90%), OpenBSD 4.0 (88%), OpenBSD 4.0 (x86) (86%)
    No exact OS matches for host (test conditions non-ideal).
    Network Distance: 10 hops

    TRACEROUTE (using port 21/tcp)
    HOP RTT ADDRESS
    1 0.25 beta.slashdot.org (216.34.181.45)

    OS and Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at http://insecure.org/nmap/submit/ .
    Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 32.605 seconds


    Looks like they're running OpenBSD of some sort.
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