Hi all, We've been working quietly for the past several months on deploying some fresh new server infrastructure for SqueezeNetwork. We want to get it more scalable, manageable, and fault-tolerant, and bring services closer to our users for lower latency. The new infrastructure is globally distributed, with two datacenters in the US (Silicon Valley area and Wash, DC area) as well as a European site hosted in Germany. Users will automagically use the closest site, and in the event of datacenter failure, users will fail over to the next closest site.
We've got services up and running in the new datacenters now, and it's time to start testing it out, hence this announcement. Some of this will be a little confusing without standardizing some terms for the rest of this post: SN Prod = The current production SqueezeNetwork that regular customers are using every day. The browser interface lives at http://www.squeezenetwork.com Old SN Beta = The beta service you've been using recently as a tester, and what the SqueezeCenter 7 builds have been connecting to. It shares account data with SN Prod. The browser interface for this is at http://www.squeezenetwork.com:3000 New SN Beta = This is the new infrastructure described above. It's completely separate from the older installations, and the browser interface is at http://www.beta.squeezenetwork.com The New SN Beta service will start with a clean slate - no existing known accounts or players - so you'll have to sign up for an account there and add your players. Changes you make there will not affect SN Prod or Old SN Beta. When the new infrastructure eventually becomes Production, we'll be migrating over all of the existing production account data from SN Prod just before we go live. Therefore, nothing you do in this New SN Beta environment will survive into the future production environment in the long run, as it will all be overwritten with the real production data. We've added some new preferences to the nightly builds of both SqueezeCenter 7 (SC7) and Squeezebox Controller (SBC) to choose your datacenter. SC7 has an option to switch between "Production" and "Beta" in the SqueezeNetwork settings. SBC has a checkbox under Settings > Advanced > SqueezeNetwork to use "Beta". In the future when all of this transition is complete, the labels on the preferences will actually be accurate. For the moment, as SC7/SBC can't be connected to the older SN Prod code, "Production" means the "Old SN Beta", and "Beta" means the "New SN Beta". Both SC7 and SBC will default to "Production", which means they're connecting to the same thing they've been connecting to recently ("Old SN Beta"). SC7 and SBC both must be restarted for their respective Beta options to take effect. Once you've switched to Beta in SC7, the menu option on your SqueezeBox or Transporter that says "Connect to SqueezeNetwork Beta" will also send you to the "New SN Beta" services. You'll be able to tell the difference beecause the menu header on the display will say "SqueezeNetwork - HW BETA (XX)", where XX is one of our three new datacenter location codes (SV, DC, DE). After we've had people on the New SN Beta for a few days if things are going smoothly the "Old SN Beta" will probably go away completely, thus reducing the confusion a bit. Please use the nightly builds that are coming out tonight (not long after this post) to test the new SN Beta - the option has existed in some builds for the past few days, but there have been some last minute fixes today that will make life easier. -- blblack ------------------------------------------------------------------------ blblack's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11129 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42686 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
