www6 Memory Upgrade - May 16th, 2003

Post by **porcupine** » Thu May 15, 2003 11:45 am

Hi Guys,

A far unexpected growth spurt has hit www6 square in the shoulders. To help compensate it's memory is being upgraded from 512mb ram to 1024MB. This will involve approximately 15 minutes of downtime sometime tomorrow evening.

Maintenance window will be set from 2:00pm to 8:00pm, exact time i'll post if/when i have more information (i've a meeting scheduled onsite for our upcoming space expansion, and unfortunatly the other party has not finalized their meeting time.

While i do realise that 2-8pm is not an ideal time for most, we'll try to keep it short and fast, as this upgrade is seriously needed before performance degrades further.

Some accounts will be moving off www6 as we put up a new, signifigantly more powerfull SCSI reseller server in the upcoming month, if you'd like to volunteer to move (haha, it's worth a try right?), please let us know, otherwise the top 3-5 clients who use the most resources will be moved to keep everyones best interests at heart.

graham · Post by **graham** » Thu May 15, 2003 12:00 pm

Thanks for the update Myles - that should be a great help. Maintenance windows are a must, and minimizing impact is the response. I trust you to do all in your power in that regard.

Have you got specs on the new reseller server? I'm always game for experimental fun

Graham.

Post by **porcupine** » Thu May 15, 2003 1:09 pm

New Reseller server will have the following specs:

FreeBSD (whichever is the latest, jon has been brow-beating me for not doing any FreeBSD reseller servers yet)
Dual AMD MP 2400+'s
1GB DDR266 ECC (Error Checking and Correcting) RAM [4GB Max]
36GB 10,000 RPM SCSI for /home
18GB 10,000 RPM SCSI for /var; /tmp; /usr
80GB 7,200 RPM/8MB Cache IDE for /; /backup
CPanel for FreeBSD of course

That one should hold a good chunk of reseller accounts, exact numbers i'm not too sure on yet mind you, but i'd expect it to hold nearly double the capacity of any two of our current servers. I'm hoping the dual SCSI's operating independantly will relieve much of the IO bottleneck currently experienced with most of our servers running single IDE drives. Thats where anyone moved from www6 is going to go.

Incidentally, the last 2 resellers who came to www6 brought over 300 domains combined, hence the current dilema, essentially, in one day, the load on the server doubled, completely out of nowhere.

graham · Post by **graham** » Fri May 16, 2003 3:09 pm

Hi Myles - did you settle on a time for the maintenance?

TIA - Graham.

Post by **porcupine** » Fri May 16, 2003 3:53 pm

It'll be done in about 1-2 hours from now, i'm just onsite now doing general maintenance on customer servers.

Post by **porcupine** » Sat May 17, 2003 1:11 am

Upgrade has completed (hours ago), downtime was minimal, and speed seems to have improoved, the load average has dropped by over 50%.

If anyones experienced any problems as a result of this maintenance please let us know immediatly!