sangiro 26 #1 November 15, 2004 Heya all, Thanks for your patience during the upgrade. About a year ago I added a second dedicated server to help carry the load on Dropzone.com. As you've noticed over the past few weeks we've outgrown those two servers. The time had come to move Dropzone.com to the next level. I'm proud to let you know that we're now running on a cluster of 5 servers! Although you may not see much of a difference up front, the immediate impact on performance should be obvious. We are continueing to tweak the performance and work on a few outstanding issues. In the medium term this will give me the scalability needed to do some cool new things and to continue growing the site. A huge "Thank you" to all Premier Members. Although we'll all benefit, without you this would not have been possible. Thank you! As with any upgrade we may see a few glitches and hic-ups over the next few days. If you do, drop me a post in the Errors and Bug Reports forum. For the geeks who are slightly curious as to what we have under the hood, I've attached a rough diagram of the cluster. I not going to publish all the specs but I will say that everything runs in pure 64 bit mode and at a high level the five machines are: 2 Application Servers: Dual Opteron Processors/2GB RAM (per machine) File Server: Dual Opteron/2 GB RAM Mail Server: Dual MP 2400/1 GB RAM Database Server: Dual Opteron/2 GB RAMHope this helps. Enjoy! Safe swoops Sangiro Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #2 November 15, 2004 I like how your graphic has the intarweb-thingy as an unknown dark cloud.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #3 November 15, 2004 Nice!!Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kris 0 #4 November 15, 2004 Wow, imagine a Beowulf cluster of thos....ummm, nevermind. Nice one, HH!Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sunshine 2 #5 November 15, 2004 Ooh, pretty picture. Should've made it shiny though. ___________________________________________ meow I get a Mike hug! I get a Mike hug! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
windcatcher 0 #6 November 15, 2004 thanks sangiro! Mother to the cutest little thing in the world... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
