Re: Yet another infrastructure problem

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>> People have been complaining on IRC that nothing can be
>> downloaded from our site, as the mirror-picking script throws
>> an internal error.
>
>> When are we going to fix our infrastructure properly?

> As Stefan has already posted on this very list, he is performing
> maintenance on that machine in order to move it to new hardware.

I understand that, but I think this project is big enough, and
important enough, and has enough smart people involved in it,
that things like this should just not happen. Some thoughts, in
order of descending importance to the matter at hand:

* Why do we have so many eggs in one basket? I know that "jails"
allows us to have many subdomains/services on one physical box,
but we've seen three problems with the concept lately:

1) Global software updates that breaks things in all jails
2) Battling over resources and causing one jail to affect another
3) Hardware problems that affect more than one jail

* One way around problems like this is to mirror the services.
That may involve load balancing, DNS tricks, database replication,
and other assorted goodies. It may be difficult, but it's something
I'd like to at least start us talking about.

* As much as I love the concept of BSD (and I might even be running it
at home if it didn't always coredump while installing on my laptop), we
should realize that the there are many people in our community who are
really, really good with Linux. Many of the people on the PG lists do
Linuxy support as their dayjob. I'm not saying we should dump BSD, but
I'm dismayed to see the resistance given to adding non-BSD boxes to our
mix.


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