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A view into the Anchor Engineroom

I always knew webmin was arse, but this…

This is the output of iptables -L on a webmin-managed box I just saw: Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT all -- anywhere [...]

The Myth of Infinite Cloud Scalability

Recently, I read an article from a fairly prominent “cloud computing” vendor, which contained a line that basically said “Let the cloud worry about your scalability and performance problems”. I nearly snorted my late-mid-morning can of mother out my nose when I read it. Here’s why. “Let the cloud worry about your scalability” is [...]

Bringing the Mountain to Mohamed

I have never in my life been asked, “How do porcupines make love?”. However, I know the answer very well: “very carefully”. In the same vein, when migrating the mass of data that makes up Github, you take your time and you work very, very carefully. Since this sort of migration doesn’t happen [...]

Anchr 2.0

Anchr 2.0 makes you want to reach out and touch it; hold it; feel it. Your Anchr 2.0 pulsates with a reassuring rhythm, like that of a heart, but made of silicone instead of striated cardiac muscle. Anchr 2.0 responds.. it is alive. If you listen carefully you can hear its machinations, at speeds beyond the [...]

Load balancing at Github: Why ldirectord?

Some comments on Github’s blog post “How We Made Github Fast” have been asking about why ldirectord was chosen as the load balancer for the new site. Since I made most of the architecture decisions for the Github project, it’s probably easiest if I answer that question directly here, rather than in a comment. Why [...]

Envy our new Leviathan!

Our current rdiff and amanda backup server, KRAKEN, is almost full, so it was time to order a new one. After much wrangling, we finally received LEVIATHAN this morning. I was pushing for PHYREXIAN DREADNOUGHT personally, but LEVIATHAN is acceptable too; the upkeep effort of backup servers is pretty high after all.

New dedicated server upgrade offering

This is, of course, a fantastic idea: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Using_Graphics_Card_Memory_as_Swap Anchor loves to stay abreast of the latest performance options. As such, we’re proud to announce a new range of upgrade options for our dedicated server customers that demand the absolute best in performance for their customers. It makes sense, really. The best our current systems offer is puny [...]

Interesting failure modes, episode 2501

I got woken up by a SMS for low diskspace the other night on one of our customer’s servers. Okay, so that’s a lie, I never sleep, but the SMS is real. Oh great, they’re making whoopie on their mailing lists again and making some stupidly huge logfile. Little did I know just how huge that file [...]