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How WordPress.com Tracks 300 Servers Handling 10 Million Pageviews
WordPress.com hosts 300 servers in 5 different data centers. It's always useful to learn how large installations manage all their unruly children: Currently we Nagios for server health monitoring, Munin for graphing various server metrics, and a wiki to keep track of all the server hardware specs, IPs, vendor IDs, etc. All of these tools have suited us well up until now, but there have been some scaling issues. The post covers how these different tools are working for them and the comment section has some interesting discussions too.
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Re: How WordPress.com Tracks 300 Servers Handling 10 Million Pag
This is old news, not front page worthy in my view, but potentially useful in some searchable archive. - Callum
Re: How WordPress.com Tracks 300 Servers Handling 10 Million Pag
I come to HS exactly because Todd searches out this type of info and brings it together here. Even if the original post is a few months old, I hadn't seen it before. It costs essentially nothing to link to it from the front page. It costs milliseconds to skip it the post, and only a few moments to click through and read the OP.
Michael T. Nygard
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http://www.michaelnygard.com/
Author of "Release It!"
http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/mnee/index.html
Re: How WordPress.com Tracks 300 Servers Handling 10 Million Pag
That's exactly the spirit of the post Michael. My perspective is always what will help normal people build scalable websites and management is a huge, under appreciated part of that process, which is why I really liked that post. It's very real. And these days it's impossible to link to content nobody else has linked to. So I just made a short intro that would help you decide if you were interested and then let the post stands on its own. I found the link via searching, so I'm not sure if it was part of the normal link parade. I try not to just post those as that wouldn't provide extra value, as Callum said.
Re: How WordPress.com Tracks 300 Servers Handling 10 Million Pag
what's the difference between nagios and Munin?
Re: How WordPress.com Tracks 300 Servers Handling 10 Million Pag
Naigos is do it yourself. Munin is plug-and-play.
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