Conversation

Notices

1. Identi.ca microblogging service

   Thanks for joining in, everyone. It was nice having a "spa day" today. Got some upgrades and new servers. Thanks for your patience. #SOPA

   Thursday, 19-Jan-12 01:14:51 UTC from web at Montreal, Quebec, Canada
   • Jason Riedy, Pelle Wessman and Michiel van Wessem and 18 others like this.
   • Evan Prodromou, Filipe Saraiva and José Daniel Guerrero Gálvez and 10 others repeated this.
   • Remote profile options...
     Psychedelic Squid Evan Prodromou

     @evan Am I understanding correctly if I interpret that to mean that, simultaneous to the blackout, identi.ca has finished its server move?

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 01:17:43 UTC
   • Evan Prodromou Psychedelic Squid

     We did a while ago. I added another DB slave and a couple more Web servers this time around. Also, two dedicated memcached servers.

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 01:23:59 UTC
     Iman likes this.
   • Remote profile options...
     ⒿⓅⓄⓅⒺ Evan Prodromou

     @evan Out of curiosity, how many servers does that make all together?

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 01:27:24 UTC
   • Remote profile options...
     Psychedelic Squid Evan Prodromou

     Sounds fancy. And the memcached servers should hopefully make identi.ca considerably more robust. :)

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 01:28:05 UTC
   • Evan Prodromou ⒿⓅⓄⓅⒺ

     8 Web servers, 4 DB servers, 2 mem servers, 1 app server, 2 load balancers = 17 for identi.ca.

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 01:35:24 UTC
     Mike Linksvayer, march and RaC and 6 others like this.
   • Remote profile options...
     Psychedelic Squid Evan Prodromou

     Wait, so which one(s) had memcached on before, given the two new dedicated ones are apparently the only dedicated ones?

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 01:36:53 UTC
   • Remote profile options...
     Evan Prodromou Psychedelic Squid

     Possibly. Previously I had one memcached daemon on each Web server. I think that made the network fragile; every Web se…

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 01:37:08 UTC
   • Remote profile options...
     ⒿⓅⓄⓅⒺ Evan Prodromou

     @evan Damn, that’s a hell of a setup. ;)

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 01:37:44 UTC
   • Børge A. Roum Evan Prodromou

     @evan Hi Evan, good to be back on Identi.ca! :) How's it going with fixing remote following? Waiting for this before using OStatus for work

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 01:37:47 UTC
   • Evan Prodromou Børge A. Roum

     I use it all the time. Is there something specific you're talking about?

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 01:39:50 UTC
   • Remote profile options...
     Psychedelic Squid Evan Prodromou

     Also, since I’m already being extremely nosey, might as well ask this: what actually defines the diff between web and app server stuff?

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 01:41:21 UTC
   • Børge A. Roum Evan Prodromou

     @evan Yes. Go to your profile on identi.ca, click on "+ Remote" button underneath Following or Groups, get an error message. :(

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 01:43:04 UTC
   • Evan Prodromou Børge A. Roum , Evan Prodromou

     I just subscribed to @junasts@urmf.net without a hitch. Which browser?

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 01:46:34 UTC
   • Evan Prodromou Psychedelic Squid

     Not a problem. Web servers run Apache + PHP; app server runs queue daemons. We try to offload long-running stuff to daemons.

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 01:47:02 UTC
   • Børge A. Roum Evan Prodromou

     @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

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 01:48:39 UTC
   • Remote profile options...
     Psychedelic Squid Evan Prodromou

     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. :)

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 01:50:16 UTC
   • Remote profile options...
     ⒿⓅⓄⓅⒺ federated statusnet sites , Evan Prodromou

     @evan Sure makes the single server setups us !feds have, look like a piece of cake. ;)

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 02:25:38 UTC
   • Evan Prodromou ⒿⓅⓄⓅⒺ

     It's a spectrum. I'm really glad the software's working for people on small sites. I wish it was more resource-friendly.

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 03:11:08 UTC
     Andy C likes this.
   • Evan Prodromou Børge A. Roum

     I can check it out. Most of our JavaScript fanciness is stock jQuery, so it'd be unusual.

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 03:11:53 UTC
   • The Root's Updates

     anytime. It was worth the wait and worth the protest. :D

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 06:42:47 UTC
   • Remote profile options...
     Andy C Evan Prodromou

     @evan Lot of hardware, lot of $$$. I think people (including myself) tend to forget that aspect. Thanks for a great service.

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 07:36:45 UTC
     Evan Prodromou and Christopher Allan Webber like this.
   • Guy Van Sanden Evan Prodromou

     @evan also nosy :-) What do the daemons do and are they part of status.net?

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 08:36:42 UTC
   • Remote profile options...
     Paul Booker Evan Prodromou

     Interesting. It would be great to learn more, maybe a blog post? :-)

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 10:15:16 UTC
   • Evan Prodromou Guy Van Sanden

     Yes, part of StatusNet. They do: distribution to inboxes, distribution to other systems (Twitter, FB, etc.), OStatus, etc.

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 20:14:47 UTC
   • Evan Prodromou Andy C

     Fortunately we're now in a great startup program at RackSpace, so the costs are a lot lower. But still $$$.

     Thursday, 19-Jan-12 20:15:50 UTC
     Greg Grossmeier and jeanne like this.
   • Matt Lee Evan Prodromou

     Once you start charging, you'll make that money back in no time.

     Friday, 20-Jan-12 20:47:53 UTC
     Make India Tour and jeanne like this.