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Web sites moved to the cloud!
From: Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:19:48 -0700
Hi Folks. You may recall a certain little web site, SVN, and email outage last year just before Labor Day weekend. Basically I went to the middle of nowhere in the Nevada desert for Burning Man. But soon after I left cell phone coverage area, a hard drive failed in the main colocated Insecure.Org server. So I had no idea everything was down while I was out frolicking on the Playa. D'oh! When I got back, I turned on my phone to find dozens of messages including some from reporters. They thought I might have been hacked because of the Zero For Owned stuff going on at the time (e.g. Kaminksy and Mitnick hacks, etc.). I explained that it was just a crash while I was on vacation, but at least one of the reporters didn't seem to believe me and wrote something like "supposedly it was a hard drive failure" :). After that episode, I decided to either migrate to a more resilient system or stop taking vacations. So I'm moving the most important services to virtualization providers where the providers are responsible for the hardware and failures can be resolved by (the provider) moving the image to another system. Ideally this migration happens automatically. The key advantage is that it doesn't require any of us to physically bring hardware to a datacenter in Sunnyvale, CA when trouble happens. I'm also setting things up on the software level to make it easier to have backup administrators. With all that background out of the way, I'm happy to report that the following web sites are now hosted on a Linode.Com VM: http://Insecure.Org http://Nmap.Org http://SecLists.Org http://SecTools.Org DNS, mailing lists (including the web interfaces at cgi.insecure.org), SVN, and various other things are still hosted on a colocated machine. I'm going to work on those (especially DNS) next. Please let me know if you find anything broken. Cheers, Fyodor _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
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- Web sites moved to the cloud! Fyodor (Jun 22)
- Re: Web sites moved to the cloud! Max (Jun 23)