Actually, the old server had enough moxy to handle the load; it had been through several Slashdottings. We've got both the hardware resources and the bandwidth to handle this just fine.
We just relied on our good luck holding more than we should have...
It turns out that one of the SCSI drives was slowly and steadily flaking out, causing all kinds of fun problems. And we didn't have the hardware raid turned on...
So Jer and I had a really fun night last night. The highlight of which was squeezing the SCSI drive electronics for 1-2 hours while the data copied off.
The good news is that the server is now up on a completely new box with a brand new shiny drive. The bad news is that it's still not set up on the proper hardware raid we mean for it to have. That's next weeks project...
We're pretty sure that we copied everything properly, but the drive was really quite flaky towards the end, and we have found numerous cases of corrupted files. We're going to go through and test them on a point by point basis, and restore from tape where necessary, but please keep an eye out and let us know if you find issues.
But the server should be solid for the next few days; except for a brief period next week, when we'll take it down and put in a proper hardware raid...<grin>.
Cheers,
Jeremy
hatky wrote:
Since the Slash Dot pice on Wine the server is dead half the day.... Why not get the site on a new server I know what you are going to say: "Have you got one?" :) How about wine.sf.net?
You already have a project open on source forge is it that difficult to move the site to their server? I THINK they can handle the load
I assume there is some reason it has not been done but if there is not any meager issue I think it will be done at least for now (till the users stop coming :) )
What do you think?
Hatky.
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