Our infrastructure currently is made up of 6 servers. Currently, three servers are used to serve the heavy loads of joomla.org (including sub domains like forum.joomla.org, extensions.joomla.org, community.joomla.org, developer.joomla.org, docs.joomla.org etc.) and two others are used for serving JoomlaCode. The Joomla! extension Directory (JED) is our busiest site and needs a server upgrade. Time to add a new server to the Joomla! 'cluster' by moving away the Joomla! extension Directory (JED) to this new box.

This new server is a Dual Xeon 3060, 4 Gb Ram, SCSI drives for faster read/write performance. This new server is located in a different data center and will host just JED. The old JED server will be used for a few other sites, probably developer.joomla.org, docs.joomla.org and community.joomla.org. With an Apple Xserve for future package generation we then will go to a total of 7 servers used to host the complete Joomla! infrastructure.

On the development - and community blog several blogs have been written on people contributing to the project. In the donations blog I have briefly discussed another way of contributing back to the Joomla! project; donations (hopefully an update on this will be blogged soon). Anyway, there are dozen of ways to contribute back to the project and in this blog I want to focus on the infrastructure this project is using to serve the community.

Rochen is putting in a tremendous effort on helping out this project by donating most of the infrastructure needs, not only by offering most of the hardware but also by providing professional resources to keep the infrastructure running 7 days per week. Rochen is adding this new server as a service to the project for free! As we did earlier on we want to thank Rochen for their endless support to our open source project and the very high level of support we receive 365 days per year since this project started in September 2005!

Rochen will be handling the move, and there should be hardly any downtime at all. The move is planned, but if all goes well no one will even notice the site has been moved. As usual we expect their skills to be used to tweak and optimize this new box for peak performance.