User:Southparkfan/SiteUpdate

Orain Site Update #2
This is the official Site Update for August 2014.


 * Technical
 * All Orain servers are migrated to [//digitalocean.com DigitalOcean] since ~24 August. The reason is that our former host [//ramnode.com RamNode] 1) only permits full use of one core, and DigitalOcean permits 2/3, 2) does not offer full IPv6 support, 3) has issues with billing, which resulted in three downtimes in the past and d) has not as much features as RamNode does. With DigitalOcean, Orain can backup their data easier and in case of an emergency Orain can even migrate servers to other locations (current location is London) when needed.
 * Memcached, our caching service, has been taken offline and replaced by Redis. This is because 1) security will be improved with Redis - Redis offers authentication methods and Memcached doesn't and 2) Orain's CPU usage will be lowered.
 * prod7 has been added to the Orain Cluster. Its tasks will be mainly hosting Redis and loadbalancing the traffic(?) among Orain's webservers.
 * Our prod5 server will no longer be Orain's second webserver. It has been migrated to a databaseserver. prod5 will not contain the same data as prod3, the main databaseserver - prod5 is used to host [//allthetropes.orain.org All The Tropes], and possible the centralauth and globalblocking databases. The full documentation can be found at Orain Tech Wiki.


 * Downtime
 * With the migration to DigitalOcean, Orain had a few downtimes. These include 504 errors for a few hours. Orain staff is looking into methods to prevent these.


 * Miscellaneous - should this be included in the mail?
 * Orain staff wants to know what YOU think about our services & us. Please fill in our survey. Thank you!

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