Drupal.org moved to new servers

By Kjartan on 25 Aug 2005 at 19:25 UTC

The move was successful and we are now running on the new hardware!

The database is now running on the Sun Fire V20z server donated by Sun Microsystems. The web frontend is powered by one Dell 1850, the plan is to add a second one to load balance. Currently we are waiting for the second server to be delivered, and there are still some issues caused by having more than one server that need to be planned out in more detail.

The mail and cvs are still being hosted on the old hardware, again waiting for the new hardware still to move these to their own dedicated machine. Once the rest of the hardware is up and running we will start working on moving the rest over.

Update by Dries: Scott Kveton from the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University has additional details.

Tomorrow, Friday, august 26, 2005 the drupal.org website will be moved to the new hardware at OSL. The switch will start around 1300 CET. There will be some downtime as the latest data is copied over to the new servers and while the new DNS information propagates.

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ttl

bertboerland commented 25 August 2005 at 20:14

Ask the current provider to put the TTL on a low value like we did with the outage switch, so propagation can be done in minutes instead of hours.

Good luck, looks like a nice but though job. Multiple timezones so someone from OPS is bound to get up early or stay up late :-)

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notes

bertboerland commented 25 August 2005 at 21:14

ooh, and please be sure to make some notes. how did you move the database?, distribute the load? etc and post that here so people can learn.

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Exciting!

Harry Slaughter

Omaha NE USA

commented 25 August 2005 at 20:16

I use the Drupal site every day. I'm looking forward to this.

The Drupal team rocks. I KISS YOU!!

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Its already seeming

jesusphreak commented 26 August 2005 at 02:07

Its already seeming noticably faster for me. Surely the switch hasn't taken place yet... ?

performance

sepeck commented 26 August 2005 at 02:23

depends on a lot of things. Users connected, bots crawling, mail list activity, how many modules have been updated and need to be repackaged...

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Woot!

Chris Johnson commented 26 August 2005 at 03:26

Great news.

Snappy!

Dries commented 26 August 2005 at 13:06

And first comment on the new hardware! :)

We still have to MySQL/Apache and work out some glitches but other than that, it just works.

2nd post?

walkah commented 26 August 2005 at 13:10

Looks good so far :)

congrats Dries & KJ - job well done.
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beat you to it Dries!

jakeg commented 26 August 2005 at 13:13

beat you to it Dries! ;)

http://drupal.org/node/29720

mwah hahahaha

oh, I'll hand it to you that you did create drupal though. you beat me to that one!

which post?

Malthus commented 26 August 2005 at 13:38

Good work :)

Timeless!

nice one kjartan

Dublin Drupaller commented 26 August 2005 at 13:27

Whahay..significant (huge) difference in speed for me.

Nice one

Dub

Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate

Very speedy!

lennart commented 26 August 2005 at 13:31

The site is very fast now - and so was the move itself.

Great work guys!

Best regards,
Lennart

Great news! Congratulations

Uwe Hermann commented 26 August 2005 at 13:44

Great news! Congratulations to everyone involved in the server move, you did a great job!

Uwe.
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Excellent.

Prometheus6 commented 26 August 2005 at 13:54

Excellent. I posted something or other before I read this and was like, hey the site's pretty zippy today.

This forum just got a LOT easier to deal with.

Good work! Will detailed

fax8 commented 26 August 2005 at 14:26

Good work!

Will detailed software informations of what we are running
be available?

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w00t

gnat commented 26 August 2005 at 15:23

can't remember the last time i got a 2 second page load for the modules page.

thanks to all who made this happen!

Amazingly fast.

vigo-1 commented 26 August 2005 at 15:41

Amazingly fast. Congratulations server gang :-)

so who want to go /.?

bertboerland commented 26 August 2005 at 15:53

anyone wants to post on slashdot we are back again and can handel some real load?

joking. only joking!!

more to the point:
congrats indeed, cool work, minimal downtime

please post some information on both the proces and the new hardware design

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Really fast

capmex commented 26 August 2005 at 16:21

Amazing, a good reason to start thinking to upgrade my sites to a dedicated server.

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Quantitative differences with separate DB server

Samat Jain commented 26 August 2005 at 16:31

Any quantitative info about how much faster Drupal is with a separate database server? (I know it "feels" much, much faster)

I'm contemplating moving all my databases to a different machine as well...
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About hosting...How much

pamphile commented 26 August 2005 at 18:27

About hosting...How much does all of this cost per month ?
Are donations needed for this ?

We need the donation button to be visible again, and alternatives other than PayPal. :)

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hardware was paid for by us and sun

bertboerland commented 26 August 2005 at 19:03

hosting is a free service. --
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Open Source Labs

sepeck commented 26 August 2005 at 19:04

Here's the original link where the details of hosting are discussed. Free power, bandwidth and rack space. We have to provide our own servers. A very nice deal.

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holy lack of lag batman!

Harry Slaughter

Omaha NE USA

commented 26 August 2005 at 18:40

wow, what a diff.

excellent work. well worth it.

i second two of the motions mentioned above:

1) any chance of getting a summary of the before/after here? i think a lot of us would be very interesting in knowing more about the 'old setup', the type of load it was dealing with, the 'new setup', and how that same load is now handled/distributed. if such an article already exists, i haven't seen it, sorry.

2) method of ensuring that drupal.org has the financial resources to maintain sufficient resources and upgrade when necessary. donations button is always good. maybe a 'financials' page that summarizes (not necessarily revealing dollar amounts) reserve funds, anticipated needs for one-time expenses... maybe when funds are low, there could be some sort of fund raiser...

just thoughts &^)

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item 2

sepeck commented 26 August 2005 at 19:08

there is currently no foundation. Please follow the foundation discussion post on the front page for that discussion. We are working on it feel free to join in.

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