Help Slashdot Test Our New Data Center 308
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.
Tracerouted (Score:3, Interesting)
Power consumption? (Score:5, Interesting)
What's the power consumption on this set up?
More info about the hardware? (Score:5, Interesting)
What is the raid setup?
Hardware raid? raid 5? raid 6? raid 50? others?
SAS? scsi?
MB chipset?
How are they linked to each other Dual or more teamed gig-e
10 gig-e?
others?
What is the current hardware? (Score:4, Interesting)
Ah, the Data Center robbery center of America! (Score:4, Interesting)
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/03/2054208 [slashdot.org]
WISE choice, Slashdot. Wise choice.
great choice (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Obligitory (Score:5, Interesting)
I know that was meant to be a joke, but that is my question. What is the OS? What is the Database engine? What is the web server? Are you using a load balancer? Details! I want details!
Tempus Interruptus! (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Tracerouted (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:What is the current hardware? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Power consumption? (Score:1, Interesting)
Pictures? (Score:5, Interesting)
It's all about the Pizza, isn't it? (Score:3, Interesting)
Can't log in using Opera (Score:3, Interesting)
It's validating, because if I use invalid data, I get "Danger Will Robinson!" But if I use my actual login/pwd, it silently fails.
I'm not about to create a Sourceforge account just for this, though... I suspect they'll find enough bugs without my direct help.
Comcast Routes are Screwy (Score:2, Interesting)
Comcast from a suburb just north of Chicago does nearly the same thing:
Chicago, to Chartford CT, back to Chicago, to New York Savvis, then to Elk Grove, and finally to beta.slashdot.org.
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense... Who the hell setup Comcast's routing??
For comparison, on the Illinois Century Network (an Internet2-capable ISP for many universities and research labs), I get routed through Chicago Cogentco, then right to Chicago Savvis, and finally to beta.slashdot.org
Can anyone explain Comcast's weird routes?
Re:Power consumption? (Score:4, Interesting)
IPv6 please (Score:5, Interesting)