When I started at Mozilla two years ago the biggest challenge was handling a release and pushing very close to 100Mbps. Right around that point the firewalls would fall over. We had one data center and essentially one provider and I could count the number of app servers on my two hands.
That was two years [...]
Among the bazillion link exchange requests I get in Hostmaster’s email, I got this gem -
To whomever it may concern,
I am interested in your domain names firefox.com,mozillafirefox.com,mozilla.com and was wondering if you would consider selling them to me.
I would be willing to go through Escrow.com (or any reputable escrow service of your choice) for the [...]
I’m at it again but this time I’m shooting for 80, and yes, I’m that crazy. I’ll be using a 2-post relay rack with 10 single-sided shelves on one side (that’d be 9 Minis per shelf). This means I’ll deal with the following nightmares:
80 freakin’ power bricks, power cords
80 ethernet cables and no horizontal (or [...]
Finally got our home-grown GeoDNS deployed last week, one week later than I wanted. A couple deployment issues and bug 435134 got in the way.
We’re finding all sorts of uses for this now and have moved several websites over to this and have a couple more websites/services (like IRC) scheduled for this.
Purely out of interest [...]
The Mozilla community is blessed with a lot of freely donated bandwidth through our mirror network. This network handles product downloads through bouncer and a subset of this handles releases.mozilla.org, which carries contains Firefox, Thunderbird, Camino, Seamonkey, and Sunbird releases and Add-ons (and is huge, clocking in around 100-130G).
releases.mozilla.org is handled through round-robin DNS. Regardless [...]
Just got through a couple weeks of upgrading Mozilla’s entire VMware ESX infrastucture to 3.5 and I have to say, Storage VMotion is simply the coolest thing (well that and VMotion itself and DRS). I feel like I’ll never need downtime anymore!
But it’s not without its gripes. Hey VMware - why didn’t you integrate that [...]
Having grown up in Chicagoland for most of my school aged years and always wanting to work in the Sears Tower, it’s neat to come to work for a couple days in Mozilla’s new Toronto digs!
View’s awesome but weather’s been cloudy/raining so no cool pictures. Takes some getting used to too.
We’ve been pushing production traffic out of our China colo for about a month now. One of my concerns was how well this site would serve our global user base and how well the Netscaler’s dynamic GSLB would work. I didn’t want users being sent to this data center who should really goto San Jose [...]
Just a quick followup to Monday’s blog and yesterday’s change. To recap, during Tuesday’s maintenance window I added the China data center into GSLB for www.mozilla.com.
Even to the untrained eye it’s pretty obvious when I made the change!
As I mentioned before, if you inadvertantly find yourself hitting the China data center, please file a [...]
Over the past year we’ve talked about our market share in China (since last April anyways). Li Gong joined Mozilla and in June we had an office. In August I was in China with Justin to setup office infrastructure (phones, vpn) and shop for data center space.
In December I was back [...]
