Domas Mituzas wrote:
An "out of
curiosity" question: Those look like db servers to me. Does
that mean wikimedia is moving to distributed servers? I was vaguely under the
impression the dbs were going to be kept in Florida, and just Squids
distributed.
Well, we try to do things better. It might turn to be distributed content cluster.
Exactly. We don't know for sure yet exactly how these will be used.
But even if we did not move to a distributed database setup, we will
still be very well situated to have live-updated offsite db servers for
failover capability in a serious emergency in Florida.
At our old facility in Florida, we had 2 power outages which cost us
significant downtime. It would have been sweet to have db servers
elsewhere, ready to press into emergency service.
--Jimbo