Comments on: Wordpress.com “major drive failure” http://www.tomrafteryit.net/wordpresscom-major-drive-failure/ Tom Raftery, social media consultant, speaker, blogger and podcaster Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:05:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Matt http://www.tomrafteryit.net/wordpresscom-major-drive-failure/#comment-2288 Matt Wed, 02 Nov 2005 05:07:11 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/?p=457#comment-2288 Yes, yes, and yes. We do have RAID 1+0 on the DB servers, a live backup running now, and have done a few other things to ensure this won't happen again. The timing was unfortunate because things were still in transition because of the datacenter move. Yes, yes, and yes. We do have RAID 1+0 on the DB servers, a live backup running now, and have done a few other things to ensure this won’t happen again. The timing was unfortunate because things were still in transition because of the datacenter move.

]]> By: Tom Raftery http://www.tomrafteryit.net/wordpresscom-major-drive-failure/#comment-2282 Tom Raftery Tue, 01 Nov 2005 21:38:27 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/?p=457#comment-2282 Dave, tbh I was talking about the db server - that's the one wordpress.com reported they had problems with. I understand (in fact I hope) there is more than one physical server acting as the db server, but it is still a db server no matter how many physical servers are involved. When I said it is lucky no data was lost, I meant that a loss of data would undermine wordpress.com user's confidence far more than a brief outage - that comment had nothing to do with the architecture. Dave, tbh I was talking about the db server - that’s the one wordpress.com reported they had problems with. I understand (in fact I hope) there is more than one physical server acting as the db server, but it is still a db server no matter how many physical servers are involved.

When I said it is lucky no data was lost, I meant that a loss of data would undermine wordpress.com user’s confidence far more than a brief outage - that comment had nothing to do with the architecture.

]]> By: Dave http://www.tomrafteryit.net/wordpresscom-major-drive-failure/#comment-2281 Dave Tue, 01 Nov 2005 20:46:05 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/?p=457#comment-2281 Tom, I think you're completely underestimating the size/potential size of Wordpress.com if you're talking about RAID solutions on a single server. With Wordpress.com we're going to be talking about literally 100s of machines. Why exactly is it 'lucky' no data was lost? There's a load of ways to backup data besides RAID. Besides the fact that RAID doesn't even necessarily imply mirroring. Tom, I think you’re completely underestimating the size/potential size of Wordpress.com if you’re talking about RAID solutions on a single server. With Wordpress.com we’re going to be talking about literally 100s of machines.

Why exactly is it ‘lucky’ no data was lost? There’s a load of ways to backup data besides RAID. Besides the fact that RAID doesn’t even necessarily imply mirroring.

]]> By: MacManX http://www.tomrafteryit.net/wordpresscom-major-drive-failure/#comment-2268 MacManX Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:29:17 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/?p=457#comment-2268 Matt has finally made a statement about the issue. <blockquote>A few minutes ago we restored the up-to-date database and we’re currently syncing it to the backup to get back any posts you might have made during the semi-downtime.</blockquote> http://matt.wordpress.com/2005/10/31/back-to-the-future/ Matt has finally made a statement about the issue.

A few minutes ago we restored the up-to-date database and we’re currently syncing it to the backup to get back any posts you might have made during the semi-downtime.

http://matt.wordpress.com/2005/10/31/back-to-the-future/

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