Hey everyone!
So apparently Patrick has managed to salvage this old thread after it was lost in the great crash. I think its time for a major update on how we have progressed the last year
I will edit the first post and probably keep future updates here in the thread instead of updating the first post.
So where do i start? Last time I posted in this thread we were still trying to figure out what to do with all of this. We have since then gotten a clear goal:
We will start a hosting business
We plan on doing primarily game, voice servers and web hosting. In the future we would like to start looking into VPS, co-locaton, dedicated hosting etc etc (long way there...)
So what have we actually achieved since then?
- The software infrastructure up and running
This includes our hypervisors (xenservers), our SAN (OmniOS) and all the VMs required to keep us up and running (to name a few, zabbix, openLDAP, ossec etc).
- Launched our homepage and a beta of our game and voice servers
- Installed a cooling solution in the server room
- Build redundant networking (quanta LB4M, 10GBE to SAN, redundant with STP)
- Bought new powerful servers (hardware and software are tuned for game servers)
- Redundant firewall solution
- DDOS protection
And the most important thing of all; We have learnt a loooooot of new things. This has really been journey, and it is not nearly over.
My current concerns are the building of a new more future proof HA SAN and network solution (more about that
here).
All questions are welcome. I'm sure i have missed a lot off interesting stuff