Just like Dallas did, I’d like to welcome everybody to the new year too… Zealand-style!
Yup, all FOUR DreamHost honchos – and Prince William – are yukking it up this week in Wellington for a freaking linux conference.
What are we, a bunch of neckbeards?!
Don’t worry, we’re not just going for fun. Sage is actually giving a talk on Wednesday (a.k.a. Tuesday to you Yanks) about Ceph, the open source infintely-scalable file system based on his PhD, which is actually super AWESOME, and is finally getting close to stable (we’ve been testing it internally for a few weeks now)!
Once the talk is done, we’ll post a link to it for more info, but in the meantime, you can register to get included in a beta test on a hosted implementation of it by emailing beta@ceph.newdream.net!
We’re also interested in hearing from any hardware vendors who might like to work with us on offering Ceph on their products.. email beta@ceph.newdream.net too!
Finally, if you’re going to be at the conference look for us (wearing our DreamHost t-shirts), and if not look for us as extras in The Hobbit!
January 18th, 2010 at 8:31 am
@Dreamhost
Just to make sure … I’m on a private server and using this untested filesystem is opt-IN, correct?
Not to be rude but I would rather stay on a filesystem tried/tested than something currently in development.
January 18th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Definitely seems cool! Has DreamHost been funding this research? I noticed that the site and accompanying wiki are hosted at a subdomain of newdream.net.
January 18th, 2010 at 11:04 am
Ceph sounds great… hey, is this why my PS keeps rebooting every few days? Naaaa, DreamHost would never experiment on production machines…
Seriously cool project, though. I may inquire about the beta.
January 18th, 2010 at 11:09 am
Yup, Ceph usage is 100% opt-in, and it’s definitely not recommended to use it for anything critical… yet!
And also yup, we’ve been funding it for a couple years now… the whole Ceph project actually grew out of Sage’s experiences with DreamHost and the various file system/data management challenges we’ve run across over the years!
January 18th, 2010 at 11:43 am
Wahoo, Kia ora from New Zealand.
If you want more New Zealand culture, go see the movie Black Sheep if you just want to see more of New Zealands scenic views go see Lord of the Rings.
January 18th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Welcome to New Zealand! It’s nice to finally have recognition that we’re actually a real country from our webhost overlo^H^H^H^H^H, err, welcome! :D
January 20th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
I thought Dreamhost just got done moving to local storage and away from network (NFS) storage.
So why the move back to network storage with Ceph?
January 20th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Ceph has been in development for four or more years and is a next generation extremely scalable file system. Every different data storage methodology has benefits and trade-offs and we’re using whatever system fits our requirements the best for different aspects of our service. We still use NFS file storage for our email cluster, for instance, so we can load balance for fault tolerance and performance. Local storage is still the best for our standard web hosting servers and that is likely to be the case for awhile yet.
Ceph has only just started to reach a point of maturity where we will be using it in some of our systems. We’re excited about its potential and the services it will help us provide, but this blog post is not an indication that we are doing another mass data migration of our user data.
January 21st, 2010 at 6:50 am
@Dallas,
OK, so this is basically R&D / investment in the future?
It’s good to see Dreamhost maturing to the point where you’re making long term plans like that.
January 22nd, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Hey, greetings from a Wellington native!
While you’re here, could you think about buying NZ Telecom. Or any of our ISP’s really.
Also, it’s Linux Conference AustralASIA. The bit on the end makes it refer to us and the West Island.
January 25th, 2010 at 7:15 am
use the fucking “read more” functionality in WordPress, n00bs.
January 26th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
@Jay If it offends you, feel free to not visit our website! 8-)