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Upcoming site maitenance - Almost Done!(3/19/08)

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jm:
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 downOn 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)

jm:
Well that deadline was a joke as doing something during school has been impossible.

I'd still like to do this stuff and will keep everyone updated.

jm:
Forgot to update this thread after the new server was installed.

Only thing left to setup is some hot failover stuff.

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