I just wanted to drop a quick note and let folks know that SSL encryption testing is happening. That means that practically HTTPS will become the new standard for both the forums and the main site in the next month or so.
That is what it basically is going to end up happening. The big issue is keeping sessions straight.Have you considered using a reverse proxy to handle the SSL and then keep the actual webservers and cache on an internal segment?
I will look into that. The big issue right now is just I need it to be easily maintained and I need to be able to get folks to admin it with minimal complexity if I cannot get to an urgent issue.Pat, you can use Citrix Netscaler to do SSL sessions.
Right now both sites are copied across a total of six different physical disks. Replication is setup (actually have an article on that one) and there is also a backup to AWS that happens on a fairly regular basis.Not to derail the discussion, but have improvements been made for backups?
I like new tech as much as anyone on this forum but the data loss we had a while back was pretty catastrophic. Many a good post were lost
Just wondering if that was still a high priority.
Sweeeet glad to hear it! Thanks for all the hard work Patrick!Right now both sites are copied across a total of six different physical disks. Replication is setup (actually have an article on that one) and there is also a backup to AWS that happens on a fairly regular basis.
The full second colo/ DR site is not up just yet though, but it is penciled in for late September.
For the time being I am just going with the idea that disks are cheap so we are copying across different ones, different brands, spindle, SSD and cloud.