Interesting post on the memcached mailing list about how Digg are using Memcached for session storage. Memcached is intended as a caching layer, but after their session database crashed, they simply went with using Memcached for session storage period.
The new Geograph setup should wind up with around 10GB of memcached space across 5 nodes, and [...]
I’m rarely “off the grid” but while away camping over the weekend the pastebin database seems to have suffered a pretty catastrophic failure. For the time being I’ve reset it while I investigate…
Thanks to the (many!) folks who alerted me!
Edit: OK, I’ve restored a backup from a few weeks ago, which means most recent posts [...]
The new servers for Geograph arrived this morning, behold the almighty Tower of Power!
The supplier for this lot was World of Computers and they’ve been very helpful in my dealings with them. They were recommended to me and so far they’ve been great. They even deliver the stuff themselves in their own van. I [...]
Edit: There’s now a more thorough guide over at HowToForge
I started with a server install of Ubuntu, and to install VMWare server you need a desktop, a compiler, kernel headers and a few other odds and ends
Easy way to get a desktop is go the whole hog and a give a home to a Gnome…
sudo [...]
The #ubuntu IRC channel had over 1000 people eagerly awaiting today’s release. Looking forward to giving it a test drive – getting good download speeds from the torrents provided here.
While pondering the power consumption of the Geograph servers I wondered how tricky it would be go “carbon neutral”. What that means is we’d counterbalance the effect of CO2 emissions from our electricity consumption by planting sufficient trees to mop it up.
Seems appropriate to me!
http://www.carbonneutral.com is a site that allows you do this, and our [...]
