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Neerblog: Data Center Teardown
5 years ago
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This is the second Neerblog, my FA-specific updates based on what's going on in my world related to all things Fur Affinity.
This past week has been busy! Thanks to the help of some friends we tore down Fur Affinity's cabinet at our former data center. It was sad to see it go, as it marked the end of more than a decade of FA hosted in Reston, Virginia*. While we had some minor issues here and there, I have to give our host credit. They were extremely reliable, responsive, and we had relatively minor issues during our tenure there. <3
The longest running server in FA history? Novastorm, a Sun Fire x4150, that went into production in 2008. Novastorm had been in use for 12 years, and kept on trucking 'til the very end! It started off as our main database server, later downgraded to VM host after we brought on our new DB servers, Finn and Jake, in '13. A server in production over a decade is insane, but it kept on trucking... despite technically walking with the technological dinosaurs. Heh.
The past few days were spent wiping drives, going through old hardware, sorting what we can re-use and what will end up going to e-cycle. Several servers like Smaug and the illustriously named Backup Server (technically "Son of Trogdor") will be shipped off to our new host, re-used and brought into our server cluster, King Ghidorah, carrying on tradition of hosting our content!
Don't forget to feed the eevees!
* Random Fact: FA United was hosted in Herndon, VA, just a few miles away.
This past week has been busy! Thanks to the help of some friends we tore down Fur Affinity's cabinet at our former data center. It was sad to see it go, as it marked the end of more than a decade of FA hosted in Reston, Virginia*. While we had some minor issues here and there, I have to give our host credit. They were extremely reliable, responsive, and we had relatively minor issues during our tenure there. <3
The longest running server in FA history? Novastorm, a Sun Fire x4150, that went into production in 2008. Novastorm had been in use for 12 years, and kept on trucking 'til the very end! It started off as our main database server, later downgraded to VM host after we brought on our new DB servers, Finn and Jake, in '13. A server in production over a decade is insane, but it kept on trucking... despite technically walking with the technological dinosaurs. Heh.
The past few days were spent wiping drives, going through old hardware, sorting what we can re-use and what will end up going to e-cycle. Several servers like Smaug and the illustriously named Backup Server (technically "Son of Trogdor") will be shipped off to our new host, re-used and brought into our server cluster, King Ghidorah, carrying on tradition of hosting our content!
Don't forget to feed the eevees!
* Random Fact: FA United was hosted in Herndon, VA, just a few miles away.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0iHWeUG-2M
Make it a community suggestion thing. See what outrageous ways the community can come up with to annihilate the drive(s), and do whichever is the most fun to film, while also safe, economic, and environmentally friendly.
Are these concerns substantiated? Are there regular/recurring internal investigations to ensure that moderators are consistently held to the same standards in all circumstances? How can users be reassured that any cases they raise will not be subject to a "luck of the draw" dependent on which moderator happens to take up their case?
Always in for Godzilla references.
Although if I had to choose, definitely Ghidorah sounds better than Hydra
It it exists, it's extreme, and it works... but the alternative is a hammer. Faster, less time consuming. Most places destroy drives completely and send them to e-cyc. Other times they burn the drives.
I have a big box of hard drives that will get the ol' smashy-smash if they can't be re-used once the weather gets warmer.
I have no fuckin' clue on how it works. I'm a Senior Programmer, not an intelligence officer.
As a person suffering from ADHD, you have to specify exactly what you mean.
So your argument is invalid.
I lack any fucks to give 'bout what you say.
If you tear them down for whatever reason, I suggest saving the magnets out of the hard drives. Powerful fridge magnets, they are. Might be neat items to raffle.
Btw, on the FurAffinity Wikifur page, waaaay down near the bottom where it shows a spreadsheet-type listing of info about FA, IMVU is still listed as owner.