Help Slashdot Test Our New Data Center

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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well done slashdot

[nih]

it's working gre

Obligitory

[BluffBlank]

But does it run linux?

Re:Obligitory

[Hatta]

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.

oh yeah

[stoolpigeon]

my cowboy neal bot has already gained complete control of all survey functionality.
 
A Natalie Portman statue and a 10 gallon tub of hot grits or I wont give control back. Oh - and I want the ponies theme back. Permanently.

Re:Abnormally?

[Anonymous Coward]

So it was really a typo: Run ab normally.

you're done

[amazon10x]

I have access to the storm botnet. Should I try to DDoS the new data center?

Re:you're done

[idiotwithastick]

Alternatively, we could always just try the Slashdot effect.

new account

[altair1230]

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

Re:new account

[Anonymous Coward]

Funny, *mine* still works...

Slashdot hardware specs...

[madskyllz]

"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" What do you mean, "If" ?

Re:Slashdot hardware specs...

[Talen317]

Does this mean that "If I'm not curious" the system runs on some other hardware?
Perhaps an Apple IIe?

What if I'm curious one day but not curious the other day?
Will that dramatically affect my user experience?

Seems recursive

[linuxwrangler]

So let me get this straight. You want us to Slashdot....Slashdot?

Re:Seems recursive

[Dachannien]

Here's a Coral Cache link, just in case. ;)

Power consumption?

[Anne_Nonymous]

> 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.

What's the power consumption on this set up?

I'm in downtown Chicago right now

[lpangelrob]

If you want me to try to walk out with your servers, just post the address. I'll let you know if I'm successful, but odds are you'll know long before then...

Re:More info about the hardware?

[Precision]

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

I'm sure I'm not alone...

[Anonymous Coward]

"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"
I just got an erection

Re:More info about the hardware?

[felipekk]

Yeah, what version of IIS are they running?

And SQL 2008 I suppose?

*hides*

Best of luck,

[hwyengr]

Hopefully it's just downtown and not at 64th and Oakley. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=6436+S+Oakley+Ave,+Chicago,+IL+60636&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=28.611123,60.292969&ie=UTF8&ll=41.780049,-87.680275&spn=0.00656,0.01472&t=k&z=16&layer=c&cbll=41.776747,-87.681011&panoid=R4fqWJEJkVCRco2uu3GK9Q&cbp=1,248.03517600888696,,1,8.383780676689486 Security's pretty tight down there.

Re:Old content

[larry bagina]

Those aren't old stories, they're dupes.

Re:Ah, the Data Center robbery center of America!

[hakr89]

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

Re:Wow...all that computer power!

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, with a mysql and perl combination... it's not hard to see why they need all that power.