You will have noticed outages over the past few weeks. What’s happening is that our MySQL server is getting hammered at peak hours by too many connections at once. The cause is almost always our RSS feeds, so, most often, our mail server is going down also. HTTP and FTP are working fine during these outages, but you would never know that, since BloodhoundBlog itself, and our other weblogs, can’t work without MySQL.
In any case, after doing everything we could think of to try to alleviate the problem, we have elected to move up to a more-robust file server. We will be moving into a fully-dedicated dual-core Xeon machine. We’ll pick up five times the storage space, five times the bandwidth and, we hope, ten times the MySQL power. This is something we would have done in due course, anyway, if only because we’ll be serving more and more video.
Right now, I don’t know when for sure the move will happen. When it does, we may lose some data. I’ll tell the contributors to stand down, but some comments may not make the shift. The transfer is in-house at HostGator.com, but there will be a delay between the time that our files are copied to the new server and the IP address for BloodhoundRealty.com is propagated through the DNS system.
I’ll post a note before and after the transition. Thanks for hanging with us through the recent outages. Cross your paws, shortly they’ll be a part of our history.
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BR says:
You know Greg, it really is a compliment to you and BHB that you would need to endure such growing pains. I see this as awesome news, the training wheels are off at BHB.
August 17, 2007 — 11:02 am
Greg Swann says:
> You know Greg, it really is a compliment to you and BHB that you would need to endure such growing pains.
This is our second move. We’ve been living on a quarter-server for the last few months, but we’ve been clobbering it two and even three times a day. If we get into trouble from here, we’ll need a load-balancing solution, which I think should come with venture capital. 😉
August 17, 2007 — 11:58 am
Robert Kerr says:
You’re a victim of your own success. Congratulations!
August 17, 2007 — 12:42 pm
Sock Puppet says:
Good luck. I’d rather be forced to give birth than move servers.
And yes, I am a guy.
-Athol
August 17, 2007 — 5:35 pm
Derek Burress says:
I got a returned email from you. Sent it again and I think it went through but still not sure if you got it or not.
August 18, 2007 — 10:16 am