Spinning Up a Complete Greek Engine Configuration
This morning I have a pretty stable Greek Engine going, so it's time to try and set up the second machine to handle the second-half of the market. After all, we need to cover all of it, and two boxes is pretty cheap in comparison to the existing hardware footprint.
Thankfully, I've recently received the machines that were ordered for just this purpose. SO I had to check on them - make sure they had the iODBC configuration set up, the FreeTDS config - all the things my processes are going to need. Didn't take long, but it was also the right time to get my home directory set up with the SSH keys, etc. Just to make things clean on the boxes.
After that, it was time to get into the configuration of the start-up scripts in the code and the crontab on the new box. It's not all that hard - by design, thank you, but it's something that I really needed to do.
In the end, I have the entire market on two boxes. Not bad, considering what it's replacing.