Category Archives: Mozilla

Where in the world is AMO?

After a week or so of testing, we’re ready to flip the switch on getting addons.mozilla.org to be served out of Amsterdam as well as San Jose. I talked about how we’re doing this last week if you’re interested. We’ll make this change during our normal Tuesday maintenance window.

Hopefully the Netscalers in Amsterdam […]

Where’s Mozilla traffic going?

One of our objectives for this year was to get a better trending of network traffic and flows for capacity planning, colo planning and attack mitigation.
The NetFlow tool we’re using also allows me to run a report of top destination ASNs, or networks we send the most amount of traffic to as […]

How do you get a dynamic website in another country without any servers?

Back in December I went out to Amsterdam to setup Mozilla’s first international datacenter. The build out included two database machines, three webservers, two VMWare ESX servers and two Citrix Netscalers (along with various PDUs and networking gear).
When I got back I was on a kick to get as much usage out of that […]

How to rack a Mini.

I recently tried to rack 4 Mac Minis that we’re using for performance QA testing. Nice boxes, not really meant to be rack mounted, but in a seismic area like this, I wanted to make sure they didn’t move around much.
Front:

Rear: