New Server Delivered
Gladserv’s new server is live. It will be about a week before is it fully configured and ready to come into service. It is being set up using Xen, with separate virtual servers for each major service.
Presently we run a primary server and a backup server, both installed without the benefit of virtualisation. Once the new box is in service, each of these servers will be rebuilt using Xen so that services can be separated, both for security and flexibility. We can then share the load evenly between the servers and ensure that any single server outage will not be noticable to our clients. A full backup is not the same as full redundancy. I’ll definitely sleep easier when this is all in place.
I’ll document this process more fully in a separate article.