It’s time for some more news about the GRID. In this session, we’ll cover:
It’s time for some more news about the GRID. In this session, we’ll cover:
It’s time for some more news about the GRID. In this session, we’ll cover:
There’s more progress to report to you this week. This is what we’ll be covering:
Your latest installment of timely (mt) information is here. This is what we’ll be covering in this week’s (gs) Update:
In this week’s (gs) Update, we cover the ongoing progress of transitioning (gs) Clusters 1 and 2 to Gen 2 architecture, more news about Cluster 5, an update on our new Fiji and MySQL5 tech, and a bite-sized Anatomy Of piece explaining the finer details of our transition to Gen 2 storage.
We have some good stuff this week. Internal testing of two new pieces of tech is complete - Fiji Agent (automated cluster migrations) and MySQL 5 for Clusters 1-3. Our efforts to get (gs) Cluster.05 online are coming along nicely. We are making preliminary plans for a GRID-wide software update that will give our customers a refresh of popular software package versions. Various bug fixes and improvements to issue monitoring/response mechanisms are the icing on the cake. Keep reading for more details!
In this update we have a progress report on our transition to a segment-based storage model using Sun hardware, some good news about our cluster migration tool, and we’re announcing the start of our MySQL 5 Upgrade BETA program. We also have an update on the anti-spam and blocklisting front, a followup to our transparency initiative, and some stuff about our future capacity expansion plans. In addition, we’re throwing in an interesting discussion from the (mt) User Forums that our (gs) customers might find interesting.
Released in October 2006, our GRID platform was a first-of-its-kind, market-improving hosting service, created to address the limits set forth by traditional shared-hosting technology.
The GRID was successful at allowing instantaneous increases in resources when needed, but in doing so it pushed the boundaries of what was possible for a $20 monthly service plan. The rapid adoption of this platform led to numerous growing pains in every aspect of the system. In 2007-2008 we fixed and stabilized hundreds of issues and produced stable clusters for the first time.
In 2009, new customers are being provisioned on 2nd-generation systems that are reliable and stable. We regret to admit however that we continue to have 1st-generation architecture in production for a large number of our older customers.
Last weekend’s storage-related incident exposed this condition very widely so we have taken some time to explain ourselves more thoroughly with this article.
Featuring a fresh new look, the (gs) Server Guide was re-designed from the ground up with a focus on finding what you need with fewer clicks. We hope first time users and (mt) gurus alike will love the changes. We’ve also added a couple of new sections that will definitely prove to be helpful and informative. More info and screenshots after the jump…
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