David Boswell wrote: >http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2659850 > >The article talks about how our system administrators, the Vienna-based >company strg.at, handled the spike in traffic from the Firefox 2.0 launch. For >those who don't read German, Babelfish translates the first paragraph as: >'With tension release of the Firefox 2,0 was internationally expected - in >Vienna a small company had a temperature to the attack on the servers of the >Mozdev Community Organization.' > > A slightly better translation by someone on IRC:
Mozilla: Vienna Department With tension the release of Firefox 2.0 was expected internationally - in Vienna a small company was eagerly awaiting the rush on the servers of the Mozdev Community Organization. After the release of Firefox 2.0 the downloads boomed within the first 24 hours - uncountable Addons and Plugins for the new browsers got downloaded and installed round the globe. Viennese Connection One looked curiously at the server load of the Mozilla extension platform mozdev.org in a little office in the sixth Viennese district at this time. Already months before the preparations for this event began. The US-based Non Profit Organisation organized new hardware and engaged strg. at in April this year with the maintenance of all server services. Technology The system was built up with the operating system FreeBSD and put into operation in the network of the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University in which also the Apache software Foundation or kernel.org are resident. All services were already moved to the new infrastructure in the course of summer and early fall. Rush When it all began, the load actually rapidly rose to over 180 access per second. The upgraded instances of Firefox had started to suggest updates for the installed extensions and the users fetched the new extensions. No Problems The Apache web server, that was prepared for the rush processed the requests smoothly without a proxy server and one could hear a relieved sigh from the sixth district in this evening. Contrary to the release of Firefox 1.5 in November last year, the servers of mozdev.org didn't break down. One may be curious about the next release of Firefox and Thunderbird. _______________________________________________ Project_owners mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners
