New server to replace pwsp.net

Monday, December 11. 2006

New server to replace pwsp.net

Good news, everyone!

Thanks to the generous donations from our last fundraiser, the Amarok project will soon move to a much better web server. As some of you have probably noticed, our current hosting (AMD Duron, 512MB RAM) is hopelessly underpowered for the growing traffic on amarok.kde.org. We've had a lot of downtime over the last months, especially when the site was hammered by digg.com, heise.de, etc.

The new server will be a dedicated AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2 gigs of RAM, 2 x 300 GB SATA HDD, from Hetzner.de. This should provide us with enough power to survive the slashdot/digg-effect. Paleo (Olivier Bédard) will continue to be the main administrator, and, in other good news, we will continue to host a number of other KDE projects (Konversation, Akregator..) for free

We will try to make the migration over the next few weeks as smooth as possible, by running the old server in parallel until everything is ready to go.

Posted by Mark Kretschmann in markey at 04:16 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Great news!

#1 cartman on 2006-12-11 05:14 (Reply)

huzzah!

#2 Anonymous on 2006-12-11 10:27 (Reply)

wouldn't it make more sense to run an Opteron?

#3 Steve on 2006-12-11 13:36 (Reply)

Well, hetzner.de does not offer Opterons. It's a rented server.

#3.1 Mark Kretschmann on 2006-12-11 14:11 (Reply)

Actually, it is an Athlon 64 X2 4400+ ... and our current server is a Sempron , not a Duron.

And... it totally rocks. Can't wait to put that beast in production. However... the rsync of the data from the old server to the new one is taking a while ... a long, long while.

#4 Olivier Bédard (Homepage) on 2006-12-17 01:55 (Reply)

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