I broke my arm on my bicycle. My only option was to take a bus or walk to and from the ferry to work. I walked on and off for three weeks. I am back on my bike now, so it will be more difficult to find time to walk again.
We are in process of replacing web servers which some of them have been with us since the beginning and adding a new ones.
- 7 new servers will be put into production by the end of next week.
- adding 28G of memory for memcache
- planning to switch master db with a slave db box since it’s newer and faster
- going to re-index entries and comments tables
- changing architecture of www.43places.com, www.allconsuming.net, www.43people.com and www.listsofbests.com setup to offload traffic from master database to farm of slave servers
- planning to speed up search by doing it locally on each box rather then doing it across NFS mounted drives
- I can not forget about the code optimization in progress
Hopefully this all will contribute to speed and stability of 43T.
The installation was very straight forward. I got confused only once when I was reading in the Instruction manual that this kit needs to be install using high power stator (which I did not purchased). I called electrosport support and confirmed that kit can be installed using original stator as well. From my local licensing office I found out that all I have to do now is to bring my title and new street legal one will be issued to me.
All right. I like that, now I can bring my horse to town legally..
I am a tea drinker and I had no idea how difficult it will be to stop drinking my tea. Now when I think about it I had one tea before work, one on the way to work, one when I arrived to work, one during lunch, one after lunch, two more before the end of work, one on the way home. Mostly all were 16 oz cups. Man, I am going through serious withdraw just writing about it..
In addition:
- we added an extra RAM to our master and slave DBs bringing it to 16G each
- added extra indexes to couple of tables
- added 8G of memory to memcache
- de-normalized some of our tables
- added more front end caching
The fight continues on.
Just about in the pre-final stage of adding a new 4th box to the fleet of 43Things servers.
I bought family of honeybees and installed the hive at the end of my property last week. I inspected the hive for the first time yesterday. This is the most difficult time for the hive since no offspring is being born yet and the bees are gradually dying out. I found the queen laying eggs. That was all I wanted to see. So far so good.
