convore.json/groups/django-community/server-setup-at-convore-how-many-what-kind-ec2/messages.json

[{"user_id": 1, "stars": [{"date_created": 1297382165.527976, "user_id": 1736}, {"date_created": 1297428617.327441, "user_id": 978}, {"date_created": 1297603154.567137, "user_id": 8384}], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297381632.7572491, "message": "They're all 4GB boxes except the ops box, which is 1GB.", "group_id": 81, "id": 76193}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297382602.473042, "message": "@dmishe Actually I think Linode is the best in terms of disk IO.", "group_id": 81, "id": 76331}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [{"date_created": 1297382164.2982121, "user_id": 1736}, {"date_created": 1297382562.8693211, "user_id": 3751}, {"date_created": 1297393177.2673371, "user_id": 521}, {"date_created": 1297395030.95771, "user_id": 6618}, {"date_created": 1297428617.9528711, "user_id": 978}, {"date_created": 1297446766.845906, "user_id": 7151}, {"date_created": 1297455586.7758751, "user_id": 1264}, {"date_created": 1297455885.493144, "user_id": 1683}, {"date_created": 1297603149.7859471, "user_id": 8384}, {"date_created": 1297636168.3096349, "user_id": 133}], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297381618.7541339, "message": "We've got 6 servers in total, on Rackspace.  One for ops stuff, trac, hudson, puppetmaster.  One for PostgreSQL and Solr.  One just for Redis.  And three web frontends that each host nginx, our Django/Eventlet stack, and Celery workers.", "group_id": 81, "id": 76191}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297382521.2144761, "message": "@dmishe I've got a bunch of experience using Rackspace before, we have a personal relationship with some people there, and I've seen some benchmarks showing better disk IO from Rackspace vs. many of the other providers.", "group_id": 81, "id": 76322}, {"user_id": 553, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297381783.0463829, "message": "why rackspace? :)", "group_id": 81, "id": 76218}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [{"date_created": 1297382671.499378, "user_id": 3751}, {"date_created": 1297386284.3914781, "user_id": 1736}, {"date_created": 1297459112.839838, "user_id": 38}, {"date_created": 1297603158.10252, "user_id": 8384}], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297382650.3853569, "message": "http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison is the benchmarks I was thinking of", "group_id": 81, "id": 76338}, {"user_id": 553, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297382671.3937609, "message": "ah that famous one :)", "group_id": 81, "id": 76341}, {"user_id": 553, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297382587.3764839, "message": "@ericflo how much better than linode?", "group_id": 81, "id": 76327}, {"user_id": 4219, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297395945.0765901, "message": "ok so there all cloud based servers then?", "group_id": 81, "id": 78413}, {"user_id": 4219, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297395979.966542, "message": "how are things holding up? must be hard to measure page views b/c of all the ajax'ness", "group_id": 81, "id": 78418}, {"user_id": 521, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297446015.4928091, "message": "page changes seem like normal requests right now", "group_id": 81, "id": 81693}, {"user_id": 8, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297453489.3577991, "message": "how come you gave nginx its own server?", "group_id": 81, "id": 82639}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [{"date_created": 1297454123.3736191, "user_id": 177}], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297453567.3559189, "message": "@zain We didn't--nginx, django/eventlet, and celery workers all are one box", "group_id": 81, "id": 82649}, {"user_id": 4219, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297454293.070998, "message": "ah, its a manifest.", "group_id": 81, "id": 82745}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297454361.71088, "message": "I'm not going to lie: it wasn't super easy at first, took me a few days and some discipline to learn and build it out for our servers.  But now that I have the hang of it, making changes is pretty easy IMO.", "group_id": 81, "id": 82761}, {"user_id": 4219, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297453910.623291, "message": "was it hard to setup puppet? i want the recipe! hehe", "group_id": 81, "id": 82696}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297453573.6218181, "message": "well three boxes, each have that setup", "group_id": 81, "id": 82653}, {"user_id": 4219, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297454098.6032381, "message": "wait, chef has recipes right?", "group_id": 81, "id": 82729}, {"user_id": 4219, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297454998.913588, "message": "but tell me this, if you need to tweak something (add a deamon, tweak a config on nginx, whatever!) you have to test it out first, you can just play with the main puppet master right?", "group_id": 81, "id": 82819}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297454301.8031549, "message": "chef : recipe :: puppet : manifest", "group_id": 81, "id": 82748}, {"user_id": 4156, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297455952.2286389, "message": "yea, Vagrant is excellent for local testing", "group_id": 81, "id": 82982}, {"user_id": 4219, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297455054.736881, "message": "and ofcourse you can't just make a change on the actual server, all changes have to be done via puppet...which is scary kinda.  but maybe you can setup a temporary server that no-one else knows about and you can test the config there?", "group_id": 81, "id": 82826}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [{"date_created": 1297455263.071758, "user_id": 1}], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297455074.9942329, "message": "@convy I don't know much about Puppet, but Vagrant is great for testing that kind of thing.", "group_id": 81, "id": 82837}, {"user_id": 4219, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297456181.599581, "message": "well i'm into rails these days, but want tomaster both!", "group_id": 81, "id": 83025}, {"user_id": 4156, "stars": [{"date_created": 1297463120.992099, "user_id": 141}], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297456104.3603661, "message": "Also, for somebody new to the space, choosing between Puppet and Chef is like somebody unused to dynamic languages choosing between Python and Ruby: you can't go wrong with either, so brush up on the minor differences and see which one fits you/your problem better.", "group_id": 81, "id": 83011}, {"user_id": 4156, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297457032.5337329, "message": "Both is good!", "group_id": 81, "id": 83190}, {"user_id": 4156, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297457040.8174779, "message": "Right tool for the job, etc", "group_id": 81, "id": 83191}, {"user_id": 7378, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297475015.2739151, "message": "You can always pass --noop to puppetd (puppetd --test --noop) to see what configuration changes *would* be made to server without actually making any changes. It acts as a dry run.", "group_id": 81, "id": 85019}, {"user_id": 8, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297505603.028038, "message": "@ericflo oh, gotcha, i misread originally. so three web frontends, how do you distribute load across them? do you have a load balancer in front?", "group_id": 81, "id": 86660}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [{"date_created": 1297548123.0171461, "user_id": 3261}, {"date_created": 1297551122.637758, "user_id": 1736}, {"date_created": 1297603169.7736681, "user_id": 8384}, {"date_created": 1297636253.169498, "user_id": 133}], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297545229.6226649, "message": "Right now it's super low tech: we have three IPs in our convore.com DNS A record listing, so clients pick one of the IPs at random.", "group_id": 81, "id": 87564}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297545246.4312251, "message": "This gives us load balancing, but not high availability.", "group_id": 81, "id": 87566}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297545288.3776929, "message": "At some point we're going to want to improve our availability story, so we'll set up proper balancing, but for now, multiple A records works like a charm!", "group_id": 81, "id": 87569}, {"user_id": 4941, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297599318.5563729, "message": "If the LB does SSL, everything behind can speak plain http, given it's a trusted network. ATM you seem to use the same startcom-free-ssl cert on all the three webservers, I guess (hope?) that's just a temporary setup", "group_id": 81, "id": 90145}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 3907, "date_created": 1297636265.1947811, "message": "@eik3 Yeah, it's temporary", "group_id": 81, "id": 94280}]