(Premier Login sroussey) Forum Owner Posted Feb 4, 2005 2:10 PM
We have had the very unfortunate experience of having multiple simultaneous hardware failures occur across our servers. Everything is finally back up, but some of the equipment we are using is very old (back when our only solution to high priced servers was to build them ourselves). Couple that with the fact the the Realms/Photos service's software is also old and unclustered, and you get a cluster of a type I shall not write here.
v2 has this part of the engine rewritten and will have failover features like most the site has now. Also, we already had ordered some equipment to replace some of the aging equipment. So if the timing had been different (if the machines could have waited a little longer) we would not have lost image services either because of the new equipment or the new software. No such luck though, and we easily lost a week of work on v2/3. And we ordered new equipment to replace all our old stuff completely. We’ll actually gain rack space. And debt.
And we ordered new equipment to replace all our old stuff completely. We’ll actually gain rack space. And debt.