The Mail Archive has successfully moved to a new datacenter. Everything is online and the system is crunching away on mail queued up during the move.
There's a couple of fun things about the new digs. We installed an inline power meter that tells exactly how much electricty The Mail Archive consumes. The data helps us use space and power resources more efficiently and avoid tripping breakers. Next, fiber optic lines are providing network connectivity to the cabinet instead of copper cables. That plus the plethora of nearby blue LEDs gives the place an "optics" feeling. Finally, the move will reduce expenses, especially as the service continues to grow. On the downside, the move was a little more painful than hoped on the sofware side. Jeff and I now know more than we did yesterday about linux kernel module dependencies, "depmod" and how that can go wrong. Not a disaster, but a few hours got burned in troubleshooting. Anyway, that's that. Anyone seeing any problems please let me know. As far as we can see, things should be running fine. -Jeff _______________________________________________ Discussion list for The Mail Archive Gossip@jab.org http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
