Barry on WordPress

Month: April 2007

  • Additional Capacity

    So, I haven’t blogged much lately but there is a reason. Over the past month we have been hard at work expanding the infrastructure behind WordPress.com and Akismet. Here are some of the things that we have done over the past month or so:

    • Migrated out of San Diego
    • Brought online almost 100 new servers in 3 new datacenters — Dallas, TX, San Antonio, TX, and San Francisco, CA
    • Tripled the database hardware behind WordPress.com
    • Now serving WordPress.com blogs out of 3 datacenters in real-time
    • Akismet is now served from 2 datacenters

    Here are a couple pictures of some new hardware racked and powered on just before we put it into production last week.

    From top to bottom (left):

    • 21 x HP DL145
    • 4 x HP DL365

    From top to bottom (right):

    • 18 x HP DL145
    • 4 x HP DL365
    • 1 x 3U HP Storage Array
    • 1 x HP DL385

    new-servers-04-2007.jpg

    And the back….

    new-servers-back-04-2007.jpg

    Thanks to Evan League and Brian Maples of Layered Tech for doing the build-out pictured above and sending the photos over.