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Salam all

I have decided to do a major upgrade to Free Islam web server, you may have noticed that there was a lot of down time with the seb server for the last 2 weeks or so, this is because I was testing loads of new technologies, so I actually stuffed the server a bit, in fact I lost free islam site during my play but managed to restore it in about 4 hours.

The reason for the upgrade is firstly to learn new techologies, secondly to install it right, and thirdly to create a proper infrastructure on which free islam will be running

Currently free islam is running everything from one physical server, however if I implement the Virtualization techology (VMware) then I can create about 5 to 6 virtual servers out of my very powerful dell server

my current server is 4 GB of RAM, so I will purchase another 8 GB in about a day or two, which will make the server 12 GB ram, I already have a RAID controller in there with 3x 150 GB SCSi hard disks, this will give me on a RAID 5 configuration about 300 GB of space, and because my site is the only site hosted on the server, I can actually create a virtual server for it alone while running other components loke Exhange server, SQL server and others on other virtual servers

I believe I can make out of my Dual 300 GH Xenon, 300 GB space and 12 GB ram, about 5 to 6 virtual servers running on a virtual lan with a virtual switch

I am planning to have the following virtual servers:

1) web server (70 GB space, 3 GB ram)
2) domain controller (10 GB space, 1.5 GB ram)
3) mail server (40 GB space, 1.5 GB ram)
4) sql server (40 GB space, 1.5 GB ram)
5) another web server to work as a cluster to the web server for redundancy (70 GB space, 3 GB ram)
6) another mail server to work as a cluster to the mail server for reduncancy (40 GB space, 1.5 GB ram)

I am planning to use VMware ESX 3i then on top of that I will install the above 6 servers then configre all to work together on the new virtual lan

I am planning to start in about a week, and during that time free islam will be down for about a day or two

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Yes, I noticed that, Ahmed.

Thanks for the info, mate.

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Yes, I noticed that, Ahmed.
Thanks for the info, mate.
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Sorry mate for any inconvenience

I needed to do so so I get solid experience with some very popular software, I am taking the chance of being unemployed (for so long now) to enhance my IT knolwedge a bit

I believe with the new virtual environment, the down time will be minimum inshaallah, this is because I can train and test on other virtual servers while leaving the web site virtual server in peace, I cannot do this now as everything in one physical server, therefore with every unpdate or testing that requires restart the server, Free Islam must go down with it, but after implementing the new virtual techology, the web server up time should be maximised

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Smile Smile Smile , going virtual ah?
sounds great..
How r u mate?
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Smile Smile Smile , going virtual ah?
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Hey dear friend

Long time no hear, I hope the credit crunch is not crunching hard in London, I actually missed the great time I had with you mate, hope we meet soon inshaallah

Yeh man, I have to go virtual to master the technology, I decided to know VMware to its minute detail

Hope the family is doing great after you trip in the USA

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Salam all

I just found out that my internet connection has been shaped to 64k/64k this is because the fact that I had traffice more than 25 GB (my limit) per month, pretty annoying, i tell you, I just upgraded my account to give me 50GB limit but will take about 3 days to be active, at that time the speed 24m/1m should be restored, but until then, free islam has to be browsed at speed of 64k, I am sorry for that but will be fixed in a matter of 3 days inshaallah

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Salam all

The internet speed has been restored to 24MB/1MB, so free Islam will be browsed at speed of 1000KB

I am still waiting for the RAM, as well my accouont upgrade, with my account upgrade though, I have been asigned a new IP address, therefore the change over will take about 24 hours to probagate, however installing the new infrastructure will take at least 48 hours, so I hope that both happens at once so the down time will only be 48 hours, I will let you know when it will kick start

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Salam all

I have recieved the extra RAM and I am planning to start the major upgrade later today inshaallah, hopfully by sunday Free Islam will be back on the new platform

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Salam all

I finished the first and most important stage for the server virtulaization upgrade, I am currently running 3 virtual server but yet to add another 2, however I will be able to do that while not disturbing free islam site, the first impression is very cool, however I still have a lot of work to do including changing my ISP for a larger download quota, I believe it will happen within the next week, at that time free islam mst go down for about 24 hours

I still have one issue with free islam site that I cannot get it to work, the MP3 Player, a bit disappointed as I use it a lot and was even planning to get internet connection for my car then play the mp3 files directly from my site into my car stereo, if I cannot get it to work, I may look at another MP3 player

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Finally got the MP3 player to work, everything is looking cool now

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Salam all

There used to be a reported error by internet explorer status bar, this error is now something of the past

Salam

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Just added a new Menu Bar at the top, enjoy the quick navigation

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Hello all

I am currently working on the server and will continue for the next 10 hours or so, I have to look into further upgrades as well tackle a huge problem of Backing up the virtual machines, ironically, the virtual infrastructure rendered my current backup system incompatible so I have to look into a solution for this tough problem, I am looking at a few options, therefore the server operating system will be disturbed during these hourse

Sorry again

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Hello all

I am going to work on the server for about 2 hours, so disturbance is expected, sorry for the hassle as I need to get the infrastructure finalised and there is a lot of work still to do

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Salam all

Finally fisnished the major changes to free islam server infrastructure, sorry about the down time, there is a lot of work that needed to be done as well yet to be done, here is how the server infrastructer stands as of today:



You may also view it on its own browser:

http://free-islam.com/ExtraImages/LAN/FreeIslam_ServerInfrastructure.htm

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