Mininova’s Server Setup
Written by Ernesto on September 27, 2006What keeps the most popular BitTorrent site on the Internet in the air? In case you ever wondered, here’s the answer.
Mininova is powered by 7 servers in total. They use Dual Opteron V20z and V40z servers with 2G or 4G DDR and a RAID-1 setup, connected to a 80Mbit/s connection (exept the forum server).
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Hmm, maybe I could setup somehting like that in my house for no damn reason at all.
Why use one server for each service? If the database server go down then all services will probably go down etc. And some servers are probably more used than others.
I preffer ha-clusters that are less sensitive for hardware failure and uses the hardware more efficent.
So the internet IS a series of tubes!
how the hell do they get the budget for all this ?
Well as far as i know the budget is covered quite easily with the adverts they display on the page. Think about how many users they get and the income they must get from all the adverts. They have 1 advert at the top, one on the right side and a usenext client text on every torrent page.
anyone know which program they used to draw the network diagram?
:)
They used Microsoft Visio for the drawing
^^ I think he was being sarcastic….
Im surprised the SQL server is only on a RAID 1 though, I would have presumed it was a much more powerful storage system
Wouldn’t a RAID5 setup for the SQL server be much more efficient???
Re:mike
RAID-5 will be a nightmare where happens many writes to database.
Mininova is actually a “read most, write rare” situtation but anyway, RAID-1 will give much more speed advantage over RAID-5
RAID-5 is quite a poor-man’s-redundacy solution. Don’t expect any performance gains on a RAID-5 setup.
RAID 10 (1+0) on large databases is generally the elegant solution.
No, RAID5 (or any other RAID for that matter) will not provide more efficiency (read: speed) than RAID-1 (striping). It is used in situations where speed is of utmost importance.
Raid – 0 is striping, Raid – 1 is mirroring (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID). For read intensive stuff Raid – 1 will be as fast as Raid – 0 but the redundancy in case of disk failure
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