I'm working on doing several things and the short message is that this may cause some downtime to MCA. It hasn't been scheduled yet but the goal for completion is sept 1 and no later than thanksgiving.
For the interested the tech jargon follows...
Setup some basic replication
- DNS failover to another box for when the box goes down
On that second box...
- a sitting apache with at least a basic site down message - Done!
- an instance of mysql that is replicating the main box. this won't necessarily pickup when the main box fails, but serves as a data backup in the event of major failure
- Repartition the hd's and add a little more space to certain partitions because of overflowing log issues. Specifically the mysql bin-log and the portage temp spaces - Not an issue with the new box!
- Lastly I'm going to be adding a third HD which will be setup as another drive in the RAID1 config. Yes its "33% efficient", but being 5 hours away from the box and having only one failover scares me -- call me paranoid. - Done! Both boxes are 3HD machines
This all comes in light of another site that is possibly getting added to the box -- although hopefully with that I'll be able to just upgrade the box. I don't forsee real performance issues, but its nice to have overhead and snappier page loads that come with a 3x increase on processor and ram and a reasonable throughput improvement in I/O (IDE to SATA)
