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] couldn't provide us the features/services we needed.
 * Memcached, our caching service, has been taken offline and replaced by Redis. This is to improve security (Redis allows authentication with a username & password, memcached doesn't) and to lower CPU usage.
 * prod7 has been added to the Orain Cluster. Its tasks will be mainly hosting Redis and static.
 * 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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