Help Slashdot Test Our New Data Center

Help Slashdot Test Our New Data Center 308

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:24PM from the it-seems-like-only-yesterday dept.

After many years of living in California, Slashdot is preparing to move to a new data center in Chicago, and we need your help. We have our new site running a dump of our database from a few days ago. You can hit it at beta.slashdot.org. Please go there, post comments, submit stories, and do whatever you do normally. Or maybe abnormally — run crawlers, write poll spamming robots or something. If you find any crazy issues, please submit them to our sourceforge tracker. If you're curious, the new system features 18 2x quad-core 2.3 GHz webservers each with 8 gigs of RAM, and 4 quad-core 2.3 GHz databases with 16 gigs of RAM.

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well done slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

by nih ( 411096 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:27PM (#23520666)

it's working gre

Wow...all that computer power! (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:27PM (#23520674)

Wow...all that power just to push a few kilobytes of text to my computer.

Obligitory (Score:5, Funny)

by BluffBlank ( 762913 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:27PM (#23520676)

But does it run linux?

oh yeah (Score:5, Funny)

by stoolpigeon ( 454276 ) * writes: <bittercode@gmail> on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:28PM (#23520690) Homepage Journal

my cowboy neal bot has already gained complete control of all survey functionality.

A Natalie Portman statue and a 10 gallon tub of hot grits or I wont give control back. Oh - and I want the ponies theme back. Permanently.

Re:Obligitory trolling (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:28PM (#23520700)

Of course not!

L8r D00dz (Score:3, Funny)

by FurtiveGlancer ( 1274746 ) writes: <AdHocTechGuy@@@aol...com> on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:33PM (#23520768) Journal

I'm off to ride the new iron!

"dump"... (Score:5, Funny)

by MadFarmAnimalz ( 460972 ) * writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:35PM (#23520798) Homepage

I can't explain it (oh okay, maybe I can) when the database in question contains /. comments and old Jon Katz stories (quite apart from Taco's nicely spelled and eloquent posts), calling it a dump somehow seems appropriate in the more scatological sense of that word...

Re:Abnormally? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:35PM (#23520800)

So it was really a typo: Run ab normally.

you're done (Score:5, Funny)

by amazon10x ( 737466 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:36PM (#23520812)

I have access to the storm botnet. Should I try to DDoS the new data center?

I think.... (Score:4, Funny)

by ForestGrump ( 644805 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:36PM (#23520836) Homepage Journal

I think slashdot slashdotted themselves.

Slashdot hardware specs... (Score:5, Funny)

by madskyllz ( 699304 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:38PM (#23520866)

"If you're curious, the new system features 18 2x quad-core 2.3 GHz webservers each with 8 gigs of RAM, and 4 quad-core 2.3 GHz databases with 16 gigs of RAM" What do you mean, "If" ?

Seems recursive (Score:5, Funny)

by linuxwrangler ( 582055 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:38PM (#23520868)

So let me get this straight. You want us to Slashdot....Slashdot?

Re:Obligitory (Score:4, Funny)

by brxndxn ( 461473 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:40PM (#23520896)

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!

I'm in downtown Chicago right now (Score:5, Funny)

by lpangelrob ( 714473 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:41PM (#23520902)

If you want me to try to walk out with your servers, just post the address. I'll let you know if I'm successful, but odds are you'll know long before then...

Not a problem (Score:3, Funny)

by dedazo ( 737510 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:41PM (#23520910) Journal

18 2x quad-core 2.3 GHz webservers each with 8 gigs of RAM, and 4 quad-core 2.3 GHz databases with 16 gigs of RAM.

twitter will create a few more sockpuppets and bring this rig to its rack-mounted knees.

Only on Slashdot (Score:3, Funny)

by FurtiveGlancer ( 1274746 ) writes: <AdHocTechGuy@@@aol...com> on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:43PM (#23520944) Journal

do they intentionally slashdot the beta.slashdot.

Re:Slashdot hardware specs... (Score:5, Funny)

by Talen317 ( 1131949 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:44PM (#23520960)

Does this mean that "If I'm not curious" the system runs on some other hardware?
Perhaps an Apple IIe?

What if I'm curious one day but not curious the other day?
Will that dramatically affect my user experience?

Re:new account (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:50PM (#23521050)

Funny, *mine* still works...

Re:Seems recursive (Score:2, Funny)

by Bovius ( 1243040 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:53PM (#23521080)

Stop it, you're freaking me out.

Re:you're done (Score:5, Funny)

by idiotwithastick ( 1036612 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @02:59PM (#23521158)

Alternatively, we could always just try the Slashdot effect.

I'm sure I'm not alone... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @03:00PM (#23521162)

"the new system features 18 2x quad-core 2.3 GHz webservers each with 8 gigs of RAM, and 4 quad-core 2.3 GHz databases with 16 gigs of RAM"
I just got an erection

Oblig (Score:2, Funny)

by felipekk ( 1007591 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @03:02PM (#23521198) Journal

I, for one, welcome our new beta Slashdot overlords.

Re:More info about the hardware? (Score:5, Funny)

by felipekk ( 1007591 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @03:03PM (#23521214) Journal

Yeah, what version of IIS are they running?

And SQL 2008 I suppose?

*hides*

Re:Obligitory (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @03:08PM (#23521274)

Well, who would want to when you can run Windows Server 2008 with IIS7?!

Morbo crush your puny data center (Score:2, Funny)

by davidwr ( 791652 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @03:08PM (#23521278) Homepage Journal

If you're curious, the new system features 18 2x quad-core 2.3 GHz webservers each with 8 gigs of RAM, and 4 quad-core 2.3 GHz databases with 16 gigs of RAM.
Morbo [wikipedia.org] crush your puny data center with his mighty story submissions!

Re:Seems recursive (Score:5, Funny)

by Dachannien ( 617929 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @03:08PM (#23521284)

Here's a Coral Cache link [nyud.net], just in case. ;)

Re:Power consumption? (Score:4, Funny)

by hansamurai ( 907719 ) writes: <hansamurai@gmail.com> on Friday May 23, 2008 @03:12PM (#23521316) Homepage Journal

Three puppies and a hair from CmdrTaco's head every 108 minutes.

Re:Power consumption? (Score:1, Funny)

by Tubal-Cain ( 1289912 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @03:20PM (#23521408) Journal

1.21 gigawatts.

Re:I'm sure I'm not alone... (Score:5, Funny)

by StarfishOne ( 756076 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @03:25PM (#23521474)

You just gave my mind a way to fast association with "uptime"... ;o

And to be ahead of obvious replies: has Netcraft confirmed it? :P

Re:Power consumption? (Score:3, Funny)

by sYkSh0n3 ( 722238 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @03:29PM (#23521542) Journal

Now if we can just find a way to get the datacenter up to 88mph...

Best of luck, (Score:5, Funny)

by hwyengr ( 839340 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @03:33PM (#23521578)

Hopefully it's just downtown and not at 64th and Oakley. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=6436+S+Oakley+Ave,+Chicago,+IL+60636&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=28.611123,60.292969&ie=UTF8&ll=41.780049,-87.680275&spn=0.00656,0.01472&t=k&z=16&layer=c&cbll=41.776747,-87.681011&panoid=R4fqWJEJkVCRco2uu3GK9Q&cbp=1,248.03517600888696,,1,8.383780676689486 [google.com] Security's pretty tight down there.

Re:Old content (Score:5, Funny)

by larry bagina ( 561269 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @03:41PM (#23521650) Journal

Those aren't old stories, they're dupes.

Re:Just one question (Score:3, Funny)

by Omestes ( 471991 ) writes: <{moc.liamg} {ta} {setsemo}> on Friday May 23, 2008 @03:45PM (#23521700) Homepage Journal

Then why do you guys keep moving to my state, and messing it up?

We have no beaches, we have 2 cities, the weather is NEVER mild, but yet we have an endless stream of Californians coming to to mess everything up.

Living in AZ, sometimes I wonder if Californians are like locusts, they all swarmed to CA, killed it, and now have to move on to somewhere else.

Re:Power consumption? (Score:2, Funny)

by linuxpyro ( 680927 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @03:46PM (#23521716)

That would explain the dupes.

Re:you're done (Score:5, Funny)

by Culture20 ( 968837 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @03:52PM (#23521802)

Does having your computer be a zombie node equate to "access"? ;-)

Re:More info about the hardware? (Score:2, Funny)

by allscan ( 1030606 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @04:11PM (#23522002)

Only dual 10G uplinks?

Re:Tempus Interruptus! (Score:2, Funny)

by Mastadex ( 576985 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @04:30PM (#23522214)

In other words:

"First Post"
Re: "First Post" - "Second Post"
Re: Re: "Second Post" - "Third Post"
etc...

I know your kind.

Re:you're done (Score:3, Funny)

by compro01 ( 777531 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @04:31PM (#23522224)

so we're gonna slashdot slashdot?

Re:Obligitory (Score:5, Funny)

by moderatorrater ( 1095745 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @04:39PM (#23522300)

That's impossible. I thought BSD was dead, or at least dying.

Re:Wow...all that computer power! (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @05:06PM (#23522576)

Well, with a mysql and perl combination... it's not hard to see why they need all that power.

Re:I think.... (Score:5, Funny)

by Idbar ( 1034346 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @05:47PM (#23522964)

They just wanted to coin the term: "recursive slashdotting".

Re:Obligitory (Score:4, Funny)

by Schemat1c ( 464768 ) writes: on Friday May 23, 2008 @10:18PM (#23524574) Homepage

Did you read the history of Slashdot when it hit 10 year anniversary mark? I think someone should go read and stop asking silly questions.
Whoosh!

Re:Seems recursive (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday May 24, 2008 @06:52AM (#23526520)

Exactly. My first thought was that this might be more dangerous than the Large Hadron Collider.

I'm picturing the entire internet collapsing in on itself. Either that or we're looking at the genesis of Skynet.

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well done slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

Wow...all that computer power! (Score:3, Funny)

Obligitory (Score:5, Funny)

oh yeah (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Obligitory trolling (Score:1, Funny)

L8r D00dz (Score:3, Funny)

"dump"... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Abnormally? (Score:5, Funny)

you're done (Score:5, Funny)

I think.... (Score:4, Funny)

Slashdot hardware specs... (Score:5, Funny)

Seems recursive (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Obligitory (Score:4, Funny)

I'm in downtown Chicago right now (Score:5, Funny)

Not a problem (Score:3, Funny)

Only on Slashdot (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Slashdot hardware specs... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:new account (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Seems recursive (Score:2, Funny)

Re:you're done (Score:5, Funny)

I'm sure I'm not alone... (Score:5, Funny)

Oblig (Score:2, Funny)

Re:More info about the hardware? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Obligitory (Score:1, Funny)

Morbo crush your puny data center (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Seems recursive (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Power consumption? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Power consumption? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:I'm sure I'm not alone... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Power consumption? (Score:3, Funny)

Best of luck, (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Old content (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Just one question (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Power consumption? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:you're done (Score:5, Funny)

Re:More info about the hardware? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Tempus Interruptus! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:you're done (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Obligitory (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Wow...all that computer power! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:I think.... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Obligitory (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Seems recursive (Score:1, Funny)

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