GMO Internet Group Selects DRBD for Their Aisle 24/7 Hosting Solution
March 19th, 2010
Web Hosting Blog – BEAVERTON, OR – GMO Internet Group relies upon ThirdWare and LINBIT to deliver the technology necessary to provide redundancy and technical assurance to their customers for their “Aisle” hosting product. Data redundancy is an important aspect of the product, with a clearly defined goal to keep applications available to their customers 24/7/365. Many organizations have goals of 100% uptime for their applications, but few have the technology and knowledge-base of LINBIT to achieve such goals.
GMO looked at existing storage technologies such as SAN or NAS solutions, but found them to be lacking in performance, high in price and difficult to configure. After exhausting hardware solutions, they found DRBD. It not only fit their technical requirements, but in combination with LINBIT’s consulting services they were able to customize their storage far exceeding the specifications of alternative proprietary solutions. DRBD made perfect sense for “Aisle” hosting; enterprise level assurance, OSS engineering and 24/7 worldwide support backed by LINBIT.
GMO had to consider their primary applications: MySQL, Postgres, and Apache. To define their direction, GMO queried the community to find what they are using for their Linux-based replication needs. With DRBD’s reputation and recent acceptance into the Linux Kernel (2.6.33), LINBIT came with high recommendation from the experts. DRBD’s ease of use, absence of vendor lock-in, simple installation and upgrade path made GMO’s decision a simple one.
Phil Reisner, Chief Developer of DRBD states, “Hosting companies like GMO directly benefit from a relationship with LINBIT due to the fact that our software, experience and consulting packages deal precisely with the challenges they face. Building 24/7/365 reliable infrastructure with self-healing mechanisms is not something to be taken lightly. That is why you have DRBD, and LINBIT.”
