Better Bidwell

The hard-working folks at Textdrive have stayed up all night again. The server that hosts this site, bidwell.textdrive.com has been given an extreme makeover:

From the Textdrive weblog...

we’ve been putting in a series of servers like nelson and pendrell, these are dual 3.6 Ghz Dell 2850s with a “split backplane” arrangement of their hard drives: the operating system and binaries are on a RAID1 (fully redundant) set of 73GB SCSI drives and /home/ is a RAID5 array of SCSI disks. This both provides an additional speed boost to binary execution and makes the system doubly redundant (one disk for the system can fail and one+ in the /home/ can die without losses or real degradation). The other purpose is so that we can connect the new servers to another cluster of databases servers and dedicated email servers. These new servers are even in an entirely different class than our year-old 2650s, and we’ll continue to see ever more dramatic improvements as the databases and emails are off-loaded onto their own systems.

Textdrive rocks.

• By Jeffrey Hardy on
• Apr 30, 03:02 PM