On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 09:27:51PM -0400, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Florida - 44-ish servers now, 20 more apache/squid machines to be
installed within the next two weeks (10 already arrived and Chad will
install very soon). 2 more database servers have been order, as well as
a JBOD-thingy.
We definitely need to look into a little more redundancy and, of more
immediate interest to me, we need for this fabled relocation of servers
to occur sooner rather than later. That's just sort of a general
statement of my impression of things currently, and probably not
particularly helpful, unfortunately. Heh.i
If those already-arrived servers are where I think they are, I should be
able to start getting them installed this Friday (06 May). I hope to
have high dev turnout online for setting up stuff on the Cisco, et alii.
Big Company X - this company is prepared to make a very major commitment
to hosting for us. Originally there were discussions of us being hosted
in their facility, but now we are seeking bids on outsourcing this. The
exact parameters are at this time very open ended, and I have told them
that basically we need time to figure out what we need. They assure me
there is no time pressure and they don't care about PR or anything else
-- it's a pure charitable donation, no strings attached. But still I
prefer to try to move quickly to take advantage of us just in case the
corporate mood changes (you never know with big companies!). The
parameters being discussed would be in the range of 2 full racks of
servers, essentially a full replication of our Florida data center as of
a couple of months ago.
My druthers: Squids and backups. Off-site backups would be really nice.
Not additional databases that are in production simultaneously, but just
backups with possible failover read-only site redundancy so that, even
if the twelfth floor of the ACME building vanishes in a hurricane
(hopefully not with me in it) there will be something to fill the gap.
Unless I miss my mark, though, realtime replication and seamless
integration isn't a good idea under current site back-end architecture,
since the inter-location bandwidth consumed would be -- well, a bit
beyond the pale. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
--
Chad Perrin
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