Moving musescore.org to faster hosting

[Thomas Bonte]

As mentioned in a previous post, musescore.org is growing steady with now over 2000 unique visitors a day and serving around 200.000 pageviews on monthly basis.  Besides the growing traffic, musescore.org holds more than 300 MB of files now. The MuseScore project is outgrowing the shared hosting it's currently running on. You might have noticed this lately since we encountered a few outages.

The next logical step is to move to a VPS or dedicated hosting, together with facilities such as backup. Because musescore.org runs on Drupal, a hosting solution optimized for Drupal would be terrific. Currently, we are testing with Mercury, which is an Amazon AMI available at http://www.getpantheon.com/. It's optimized for Drupal with the tag line: "Run Drupal liquid metal fast".

We are currently still evaluating how the musescore.org availability can be guaranteed, but regarding scalability, Amazon EC2 comes with yummy which can grow musescore.org to infinity.

More information later when we finished our tests.

[Thomas Bonte]

A test version of musescore.org on the new hosting facility is currently running at http://test.musescore.org/ Currently the search engine is not indexed yet and mail traffic is shut down, but all the rest should be ok. Feel free to browse around and in case you see something weird, don't hesitate to report.

Thomas Bonte wrote:

As mentioned in a previous post, musescore.org is growing steady with now over 2000 unique visitors a day and serving around 200.000 pageviews on monthly basis.  Besides the growing traffic, musescore.org holds more than 300 MB of files now. The MuseScore project is outgrowing the shared hosting it's currently running on. You might have noticed this lately since we encountered a few outages.

The next logical step is to move to a VPS or dedicated hosting, together with facilities such as backup. Because musescore.org runs on Drupal, a hosting solution optimized for Drupal would be terrific. Currently, we are testing with Mercury, which is an Amazon AMI available at http://www.getpantheon.com/. It's optimized for Drupal with the tag line: "Run Drupal liquid metal fast".

We are currently still evaluating how the musescore.org availability can be guaranteed, but regarding scalability, Amazon EC2 comes with yummy which can grow musescore.org to infinity.

More information later when we finished our tests.

[Thomas Bonte]

Today at 11 am UTC, musescore.org will be migrated to its new hosting facility. This might introduce some downtime, around 15 minutes if everything goes well as planned.

Thomas Bonte wrote:

A test version of musescore.org on the new hosting facility is currently running at http://test.musescore.org/ Currently the search engine is not indexed yet and mail traffic is shut down, but all the rest should be ok. Feel free to browse around and in case you see something weird, don't hesitate to report.

Thomas Bonte wrote:

As mentioned in a previous post, musescore.org is growing steady with now over 2000 unique visitors a day and serving around 200.000 pageviews on monthly basis.  Besides the growing traffic, musescore.org holds more than 300 MB of files now. The MuseScore project is outgrowing the shared hosting it's currently running on. You might have noticed this lately since we encountered a few outages.

The next logical step is to move to a VPS or dedicated hosting, together with facilities such as backup. Because musescore.org runs on Drupal, a hosting solution optimized for Drupal would be terrific. Currently, we are testing with Mercury, which is an Amazon AMI available at http://www.getpantheon.com/. It's optimized for Drupal with the tag line: "Run Drupal liquid metal fast".

We are currently still evaluating how the musescore.org availability can be guaranteed, but regarding scalability, Amazon EC2 comes with yummy which can grow musescore.org to infinity.

More information later when we finished our tests.

[Thomas Bonte]

An hour ago, musescore.org has been migrated to its new hosting facility at Amazon EC2. It should run much faster now.

If you encounter any problem whatsoever, please report so it can solve it asap.

Thomas Bonte wrote:

Today at 11 am UTC, musescore.org will be migrated to its new hosting facility. This might introduce some downtime, around 15 minutes if everything goes well as planned.

Thomas Bonte wrote:

A test version of musescore.org on the new hosting facility is currently running at http://test.musescore.org/ Currently the search engine is not indexed yet and mail traffic is shut down, but all the rest should be ok. Feel free to browse around and in case you see something weird, don't hesitate to report.

Thomas Bonte wrote:

As mentioned in a previous post, musescore.org is growing steady with now over 2000 unique visitors a day and serving around 200.000 pageviews on monthly basis.  Besides the growing traffic, musescore.org holds more than 300 MB of files now. The MuseScore project is outgrowing the shared hosting it's currently running on. You might have noticed this lately since we encountered a few outages.

The next logical step is to move to a VPS or dedicated hosting, together with facilities such as backup. Because musescore.org runs on Drupal, a hosting solution optimized for Drupal would be terrific. Currently, we are testing with Mercury, which is an Amazon AMI available at http://www.getpantheon.com/. It's optimized for Drupal with the tag line: "Run Drupal liquid metal fast".

We are currently still evaluating how the musescore.org availability can be guaranteed, but regarding scalability, Amazon EC2 comes with yummy which can grow musescore.org to infinity.

More information later when we finished our tests.

[Thomas Bonte]

The musescore.org server has been tweaked for performance and stability. If you encounter any issue with the website, don't hesitate to leave a message at http://www.musescore.org/contact or reply to this mailing list post. Thanks!