[Wikipedia-l] Server status update

Tue Oct 14 21:17:09 UTC 2003

Jason has successfully replaced the motherboard and CPUs on Pliny, the 
database/mail/some web server. With luck, this will solve the crashing 
problems that have been particularly bad of late. Also, the CPUs are a 
smidge faster than the old ones, which is nice.

For the moment Larousse is still up with its old (much slower) CPU, but 
it is up and serving en.wikipedia.org. Hits to www.wikipedia.org will 
be sent to either en.wikipedia.org or en2.wikipedia.org (on pliny) to 
help split the load (a more transparent load-balancing system will be 
set up once things are a little more stable). All logins should go to 
en.wikipedia.org.

Our backup mailserver should be running again; if you send mail to the 
lists at wikiMedia.org instead of wikiPedia.org, it should go through 
the regular channels normally and _ought_ to still make it through even 
if pliny is down.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)