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Dave and I worked last week trying to get services moved out of the old colocation to the new one. While we did make a little progress, we still have a lot of work to do. Dave has put together an outages page with our current status: http://nagios.mozilla.org/outages/

As part of this move we are going to start using the Linux Virtual Server to do some fun Linux based clustering. We plan on having enough of the infrastructure up in time for the “hour of terror” on July 1. This time the plan is to put two virtual servers in round-robin dns each backed with four real servers. This will give us eight total servers powering aus.mozilla.org when all said and done. Last month we tested this out with one virtual server and four real servers, and it seemed to be able to hold up — eight should be able to do it with out even breaking a sweat. :)

After we solve the aus.mozilla.org load issues, I have a personal vendetta to solve the feeds.spreadfirefox.com issues. The feed is like 5kb, yet we are unable to serve it up live — I think we will be able to solve this with our clustering efforts. The little download counter is a prime example of how widely used the mozilla.org infrastructure is. We need to get to a point were nothing this trivial makes us stumble, and I think LVS is going to help.

This entry was posted on Sunday, June 26th, 2005 at 3:58 pm and is filed under Mozilla.