Virtualization, Rails and CDNs
A few weeks ago we (not me, but my company) started work on our GoComics igoogle gadget for the release of igoogle v2. We weren’t really sure how well it was going to go over, it didn’t take long before we were suddenly at 150,000 users and we were listed along with the New York […]
ugh
Waking up at 5:30 to your cell phone beep, beep, beeping as messages coming in is not how we sysadmins like to start our week. Calling your hosting provider for the second time in less than a week to open a ticket saying routing is screwed up and nobody can get to your servers makes […]
New Facility
Going to the new facility we cut down to four racks of space which was made very much possible by moving from our old 3U 1850 and DL380s we purchased in around 2001, to new DL360 G5s which are 1U. I can run about 4 virtual servers of similar memory and processor on the newer […]
Clean it up, clean it up
It’s been a crazy last few weeks but the server move has gone off fairly well. I managed to move all of the uclick servers in one weekend from our old facility to the new one. In the mix I managed to change internal IPs of all of our servers which at current count sits […]