Re: Web sites moved to the cloud!

[Max <nmap () webwizarddesign com>]

Great choice of providers!

On 6/22/10, Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org> wrote:
> 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
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