[ahimsa-tech] New virtual server box (ahimsa)

[Pseudo Punk]

jeff moe <jeff at indymedia.org> wrote:
> For quite some time I have wanted to move various dynamic sites from 
> ahimsa-web1 (866Mhz) to ahimsa-web3, which is set up with vserver. This hasn't 
> happened yet, but "should". The problem now is that ahimsa-web3 has plenty to 
> do already. So what I'm thinking of is getting a new box for virtual serving.
> 
> There are a number of virtual server techniques, some of which can be combined. 
> It'll use xen, vserver, or OpenVT (least likely). I don't have experience with 
> xen yet, but it has some nice features that aren't in vserver. Does anyone out 
> there have suggestions on which would be most appropriate for an IMC server? I 
> think most imc-techs have vserver experience, so that's a big plus from the 
> get-go, but that's just a hunch. It seems like xen may be more secure (which is 
> a big plus), but less resource efficient. Also, do the new virtualization 
> extensions in the new CPUs offer any benefit with vserver? I understand that 
> they do for Xen.
> 
> Another issue I'd like to solve is the disks. I was thinking of having the 
> dynamic sites use local disks instead of NFS. This will offload some pressure 
> from the NFS server (doing interminable `rsyncs`) and should make everything 
> faster overall. Backups can be made to the NFS server periodically too. The 
> issue here is space.
> 
> I ran a `du` of everything back in May--it should still be a "reasonable" 
> guideline (mir and sites under 1G not included):
> 
> 186G    custom/images

this seems to be a backup of images.indy ?

>   44G     sf-active/italy
>   32G     sf-active/argentina
>   31G     custom/nimiq
>    9.1G  dada/barcelona
>    6.1G  custom/docs
>    3.2G  dada/wmass
>    3.2G  custom/radio-uk
>    2.1G  sf-active/uruguay
>    2.1G  dada/colorado
>    1.7G  spip/nantes
>    1.4G  spip/nice
>    1.2G  sf-active/marseille
>    1.2G  sf-active/liege

this is a  backup.
dunno if they still need it.

>    1.1G  custom/rt
> 
> 
> The total `du` was like 331 gigs. Of this, a huge chunk is /imc/custom/images. 
> I /think/ this is just old archive data, but I'm not certain--in other words, 
> it wouldn't have to be on the local disk.  I'd like to know because it has a 
> big impact on the estimate of how much space we need. Barcelona, argentina, & 
> docs are just backups. We could always mix & match a bit too (some parts on 
> NFS, some locally--especially "new" data writes).
> 
> The box will likely be from penguincomputing or supermicro. The time line is: 
> wait for feedback, get the thing (2-3 weeks), bame has offered to physically 
> install it, I'll do OS install + OS configuration, then the actual moving of 
> sites. I'm looking for volunteers who know each code base to help with those 
> respective moves. The distro will be debian etch.

i can help with sf-active sites.
Bart
> 
> Thanks for any feedback.
> 
> -Jeff
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