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Yeah sorry I didn't want it to end up sounding like a threaded argument - and I was sort of brain dumping as I go. Hardware wise - We use standard servers (sup
by mrmondo 12y ago
Yeah sorry I didn't want it to end up sounding like a threaded argument - and I was sort of brain dumping as I go.
Hardware wise - We use standard servers (super micro), packed with several tiers of SSDs (Intel for the high end, SanDisk for the lower end).
Software wise, again all off the shelf, well understood tools: Debian Linux, DRBD, iSCSI, LACP, LVM, Puppet.
Our compute servers are blades with Debian VMs running Docker containers Of our applications.
Edit: something we've gained greatly from that isn't off the shelf is that we moved to running very modern Linux Kernels - we have CI builds triggered as new stable versions are released and they are stock standard except that we do patch them with GRSecurity and ensure SELinux is enforcing.
All this doesn't cost much time to manage at all - we don't even have a storage admin and to be honest - if we needed one we'd be doing something wrong - apart from physical failure (which is very rare these days) there really isn't anything to do with storage - it's almost boring!
- mrmondo 12y agoI actually have to get some sleep now - it's after 1AM here in Aussie, I wanted to stress that I'm absolutely not against using cloud hosted services - just that they're not the answer to all situations and there's a lot to be gained from ensuring you don't get sucked in to too much of the 'Spin' that vendors provide.