Posted by Dokuro on January 15, 2011 at 2:54am
Anyone here into server builds? I find tweaking servers to be really fun, but up until now, it has been just me, would be fun to find anyone else in Japan who likes this as well and help each other out.
So if anyone likes this type of thing, hit me up. Maybe we can meet up, do some testing. I do have a Drupal site that seems to be able to bring servers to its knees that I have been working on, going live soon. We can use this for benchmarks and build out something really nice that we could all use for our Drupal sites.
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It can be fun, though I'm far
It can be fun, though I'm far from an expert on it. I suggest those who are interested in such things join the High Performance group here on g.d.o. Though usually the discussion there has to do more with big iron dedicated servers, whereas my interests generally lie in eking out good performance from low-end servers.
For example, at my previous job, we used to just purchase a whole new shared hosting account for every site we built. I thought that this was a waste of money (and also a pain, since the shared hosting company my boss was enamored with had no desire to upgrade from PHP 4.3 or so), so I convinced my boss to try getting a VPS account for hosting our Drupal sites instead. Even though we got a cheapo account with just 512MB of RAM, they're currently hosting over 100 Drupal sites on it, most of them in a single big multi-site installation, and it works pretty well. And best of all, not having to buy a new shared hosting account every time they start up a new site has saved them thousands yearly in hosting costs.
Lately I've been considering possibly upgrading from my current VPS account for my personal projects to a colo-hosted server. Since so many of the slowdowns in server-related tasks can be due to the disk, I'm thinking of using a simple Intel Atom-based motherboard, and using the money saved there to get a solid-state disk for the storage. Even if the total speed of the system is still nowhere near a Xeon system with a standard hard drive, I'm thinking it should be more than sufficient for most hosting tasks, while using much less power. Hmm, maybe some day…
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I was just looking for
I was just looking for someone else in Tokyo that had this same interest. I really like working with sys-admin, trying to see if anyone else is into this also. Try out some different builds, tweak things out and just see what we can get going on different size instances.
I'm interested, although not too experienced
I had a lot of fun about a year ago figuring out how to set up a Linode for our site and it was amazing how much better it is than shared hosting. Plus it lead to a few other things like version control and drush which has improved our workflow significantly. It also forced me to get a lot better at command line and introduced me to Vim which I use today. Anyway, I'm in Tokyo and I'd be interested in attending a meetup, although I'd be more of a student in any sort of hardcore configuration talk. :)
Hey Frognation, cool to hear.
Hey Frognation, cool to hear. I just setup a nice Lamp, APC, Boost, Mod_pagespeed combo that finally took care of this beast of a site. I love doing system admin stuff, it's really fun.
Would like to work out setting up a git server.
Cool!
Cool! I was really surprised at how big an effect Boost had. I haven't heard of Mod_pagespeed but now I'm really curious!
We also have Git set up and it's already saved me a couple times on reversing changes. Also it's so much easier to deploy changes from my local copy to the live server. However I'm not sure I have the optimal set up for Drupal (there seems to be differing opinion on the best workflow for Drupal) so I'd love to hear how you're planning on approaching it.
Sorry for the late
Sorry for the late reply.
Would love to meetup man. You are in Tokyo?
In Gotanda
Yup, I live in Gotanda! When's good and do you know a good place? Weekend day would be best for me. Let me know!