On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:27:19 -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Sorry for the massive crossposting, but this is big good news.
The new colocation facility (Neutelligent/Hostway, Tampa) just called me and they are at this moment taking delivery of 9 new servers belonging to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
I'm heading over there now with Michael and we will be spending as long as it takes to install them.
It's more up to Brion and the other developers as to when we'll be able to go live on these. I'm just going to get them up and running and make sure that the latest (most secure) ssh is on them.
Great news!
It would be nice if you could swap some of the ram around while you're there- the Squids will need 3 or (better) 4 Gb ram. Then the hardware tests could be done with the final config.
Gabriel Wicke wrote:
It would be nice if you could swap some of the ram around while you're there- the Squids will need 3 or (better) 4 Gb ram. Then the hardware tests could be done with the final config.
Erp. Well, they're about ready for me to blow out of here, so this will have to wait until Monday. Let's chat this weekend about the exact configuration everyone wants for the squids, webservers, etc.
We can go ahead and get the software installed and tested this weekend, I guess, even if some little things aren't quite 100%.
On Monday I'll move the RAM sticks around to everyone's satisfaction and pound away with memtest86, *especially* on the dual Opteron.
My feeling is that we should not rush these into production, but then again, it shouldn't take us that long, either.
--Jimbo
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