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By: J_K9

J_K9 — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 01:45:32 +0000

Oh ok. That makes sense. That must be a real pain to upgrade though.. Hopefully that won’t have to happen any time soon?

By: drew

drew — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 03:01:33 +0000

As far as I know, no actual clustering but I do know that the main two servers he has in Buffalo serve up most of the html content and the other is the DB server. He also has another server that serves up images alone for the site. Not sure about the others, I think most of the others he has do misc things here and there.

By: J_K9

J_K9 — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:25:23 +0000

Right. Thought so. I know that sites which receive the amount of hits that LQ does per day have to have several server to work efficiently - but how exactly does that work? Do they work as a cluster, or is it something else?

By: drew

drew — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:04:30 +0000

It was a server switch. There is more than just one server that runs LQ. At one time, there was one server, but it was decommissioned some odd years ago.

By: J_K9

J_K9 — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:02:50 +0000

Lol yeah - I was wondering if there was another way

What did Jeremy do when he upgraded the (original) LQ server? Was the site down for a few hours, or did he just do a ’server switch’ (changing the DNS) until he had finished upgrading it?

By: drew

drew — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:53:46 +0000

JK_9,

The only way to upgrade a servers hardware with minimal downtime is to have two servers running…

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:13:29 +0000

And now it’s fixed. Let me know if there’s anything else which seems broken.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:34:04 +0000

Yeah, I need to work out why the links don’t work and then fix that……

By: J_K9

J_K9 — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:03:33 +0000

Ray - Looking good (kudos to Drew too )! But the links on the left don’t work.. when’s that tweaking package coming? Hehe..

Drew, good luck migrating the servers.
[offtopic] I’ve always wondered how to upgrade a server’s hardware without getting any downtime.. I don’t even know if it’s possible [/offtopic]

By: drew

drew — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:36:39 +0000

Aww, shucks, thanks guys!

Yeah, I should be getting the final pieces together for the new server. Once I get it all up and running, throw it in at the colo and get us moved one night. Hopefully it will be pain free, the only downside is there will be slight downtime as I’ll shut all the domains down, take snapshots of the mysql databases to import them to the new server, bring it all up, make sure it works, then switch DNS to the new machine. depending on your ISP, shouldn’t be that long for the redirect to take affect.