GeorgeBeech

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by GeorgeBeech 11y ago
Nothing that would pass deep scrutiny. Just our experience running SSDs in almost every server at Stack. We've only had one mass failure of drives. That was when 5/8 Samsung drives died around the same time in our packet capture b
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by GeorgeBeech 11y ago
Not necessarily. We've been running Intel SSDs in productions at Stack Exchange for 4+ years, and just recently had our first 2.5" drive die. That said, most of the drives in this article are consumer drives. The problem with cons
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by GeorgeBeech 12y ago
> How many ops employees would you need for a fleet of 500 servers in a datacenter? We managed it all with 4 people with AWS. I'd say our goal is to keep growing and serving more content without _needing_ 500 servers in a data cente
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by GeorgeBeech 12y ago
They are nice, we honestly haven't had to do much with them after we got them setup since they are VM hosts. The most annoying part was that the Force10 OS that the IOA's run is slightly annoying to work with when you are used to
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by GeorgeBeech 12y ago
It took about 20 minutes to notice and fix. The Twitter alerting system let us know really quick.
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by GeorgeBeech 12y ago
That's nothing: https://gigaom.com/2012/10/31/how-good-prep-and-a-bucket-bri... We where hosted at that Peer 1 facility during Sandy. Also, if the water makes it up to the 16th floor it's time to gi
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by GeorgeBeech 12y ago
I never claimed to be sane
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by GeorgeBeech 12y ago
We generally pick a hashtag on twitter and do it that way. We've also done Hangouts On Air for non-hardware in the past which have been pretty fun as well.
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by GeorgeBeech 12y ago
We take a lot of pride in how much we get out of each piece of hardware. You don't need to have 1000 servers to run a large site, just the mindset of performance first.
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by GeorgeBeech 12y ago
If you look at their site, it's all college rot gut, and well liquor level stuff. It's the brands that you go and get a giant 1 Gallon handle for 10$. Which makes sense given their business model. This is the stuff you'll get
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by GeorgeBeech 12y ago
The 2960 series has 8 and 24 port models, that are fully managed switchs - VLANs, management, anything that you can do in the IP Base IOS. See the bottom of this page for models the 24 and 8 switches are what you are looking for. http:
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by GeorgeBeech 12y ago
That is exactly how I have my desk setup. Monitors Facing the wall. Me facing the door. The office feels a bit smaller, but I'd rather not have my back/side to the door.
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by GeorgeBeech 12y ago
>Where I come from, it is considered bad engineering to build a product that can only run on a single platform, can only run on one particular OS, and the product is at the mercy of future decisions by a 3rd party. This seems like a bit
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by GeorgeBeech 12y ago
Email team@stackexchange.com they should be able to help you out. (I'm an SE SysAdmin )
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by GeorgeBeech 12y ago
Eh? The law only talks about convictions not arrests. You need to qualify for a Business or Tourism visa to be able to use the VWP. (source: http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/general/inelig...
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How Stack Exchange get the most out of haproxy(brokenhaze.com)
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by GeorgeBeech 13y ago
Yep. Here are the screenshots from out Velocity Presentation: http://imgur.com/a/dawwf