Adding disk space and backups

Posted by dsomashekar Saturday, May 3, 2008
easybib

The latest talk in the world of hosting and infrastructure seems to be around cloud computing. Amazon launched a solution a couple years ago that they continue to refine, a solution that allows web sites to scale easily and cost effectively.

While we’re leveraging some aspects of Amazon’s infrastructure today, we still have a physical server footprint. Because of our active userbase, our database has been growing by leaps and bounds, and we’ve realized that we’re going to need a lot more disk space to store our users’ data.

So today, I did something that maybe in a few years will sound archaic (but right now, it’s hyper cheap, hyper fast, and hyper efficient for us to keep our site running as it is). I stopped by the datacenter, plugged in a few new harddrives that we ordered, and created a new disk volume.

Then Till went in and did his systems admin wizardry.

Now we have more space for more data, greater redundancy, and faster speeds. Happy Saturday all!