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Thanks for joining in, everyone. It was nice having a "spa day" today. Got some upgrades and new servers. Thanks for your patience. #SOPA
- Jason Riedy, Pelle Wessman and Michiel van Wessem and 19 others like this.
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We did a while ago. I added another DB slave and a couple more Web servers this time around. Also, two dedicated memcached servers.
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@evan Out of curiosity, how many servers does that make all together?
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Sounds fancy. And the memcached servers should hopefully make identi.ca considerably more robust. :)
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8 Web servers, 4 DB servers, 2 mem servers, 1 app server, 2 load balancers = 17 for identi.ca.
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Wait, so which one(s) had memcached on before, given the two new dedicated ones are apparently the only dedicated ones?
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Possibly. Previously I had one memcached daemon on each Web server. I think that made the network fragile; every Web se…
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@evan Damn, that’s a hell of a setup. ;)
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I use it all the time. Is there something specific you're talking about?
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Also, since I’m already being extremely nosey, might as well ask this: what actually defines the diff between web and app server stuff?
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I just subscribed to @junasts@urmf.net without a hitch. Which browser?
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Not a problem. Web servers run Apache + PHP; app server runs queue daemons. We try to offload long-running stuff to daemons.
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@evan That's very strange. I talked with someone else who had the same issue, but can't remember who now. Firefox 10, 11 alpha and 12 alpha
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Ah, I see. All this talk of the underlying stuff is making me want to have another go at trying to set up my own instance. :)
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It's a spectrum. I'm really glad the software's working for people on small sites. I wish it was more resource-friendly.
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I can check it out. Most of our JavaScript fanciness is stock jQuery, so it'd be unusual.
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anytime. It was worth the wait and worth the protest. :D
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@evan Lot of hardware, lot of $$$. I think people (including myself) tend to forget that aspect. Thanks for a great service.
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@evan also nosy :-) What do the daemons do and are they part of status.net?
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Interesting. It would be great to learn more, maybe a blog post? :-)
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Yes, part of StatusNet. They do: distribution to inboxes, distribution to other systems (Twitter, FB, etc.), OStatus, etc.
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Fortunately we're now in a great startup program at RackSpace, so the costs are a lot lower. But still $$$.
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Once you start charging, you'll make that money back in no time.
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