On the edge of the Arctic Circle, where the River Lule meets the Gulf of Bothnia, lies a very important building. Facebook’s newest data center – in Luleå, Sweden – is now handling live traffic from around the world.
Source: http://www.facebook.com/luleadatacenter
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Facebook (arguably) owns more data than God.
Photos stolen from http://kellisis.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/photo-tour-inside-facebooks-new-high-tech-cold-storage-data-center-2/
Mark Collier, COO of the OpenStack Foundation, shows off some of the new services enabled by OpenStack Havana such as Metering and Orchestration.
OpenStack Havana
OpenStack Havana, the eighth release of the open source software for building public, private, and hybrid clouds, has nearly 400 new features to support software development, managing data and application infrastructure at scale. The OpenStack community continues to attract the best developers and experts in their disciplines with 910 individuals employed by 145 different organizations contributing to the Havana release.
Learn all about Havana at the Hong Kong OpenStack Summit
Each disk in the cold storage gear can hold 4 terabytes of data, and each 2U system contains two levels of 15 disks. In other words, each unit can handle 120 terabytes. A rack could hold 16 of these storage systems, allowing for 2 petabytes of cold storage in a rack.
Source: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/10/16/first-look-facebooks-oregon-cold-storage-facility/
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Facebook stores more than 240 billion photos, with users uploading an additional 350 million new photos every single day. To house those photos, Facebook’s data center team deploys 7 petabytes of storage gear every month.
500 OOPS: priv_sock_get_cmd
macbook:~ PJunior$ ftp [email protected] Connected to example.com. 500 OOPS: priv_sock_get_cmd ftp: Can't connect or login to host `example.com'
Open /etc/vsftpd.conf and at the end add
seccomp_sandbox=NO
and restart the Server:
sudo service vsftpd restart
macbook:~ PJunior$ ftp [email protected] Connected to example.com. 500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot() ftp: Can't connect or login to host `example.com'
Open /etc/vsftpd.conf and at the end add
allow_writeable_chroot=YES
and restart the Server:
sudo service vsftpd restart
