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Sun Blogs: A Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Reference Deployment

Meena Vyas, Murthy Chintalapati, and Allen Gilliland; November 2008

Introduction

This article is an overview of the Sun Blogs web site's usage statistics, systems architecture, and configuration, and it provides information about the system administrator's experience managing one of the busiest externally facing Web 2.0 site deployments at Sun.

Sun Blogs is a blogging service dedicated to Sun employees worldwide, which is hosted and managed by sun.com engineering and powered by Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 2 running on a pair of Sun Fire T2000 servers with UltraSPARC T2 processors. The site also uses a custom version of the open source blogging server Apache Roller Weblogger Version 4.0.0.12, MySQL database server, and Memcached. The service is integrated with Sun's secure single sign-on identity system backed by a worldwide employee LDAP directory for authentication and authorization.

For more details, see the list of contents below.

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Contents

• Introduction
• Sun Blogs Statistics
• System Architecture
• Sun Blogs Configuration
• Sun Blogs Site Administrator's Perspective
• Conclusion
• About the Authors
• Appendix

For More Information

Here are additional resources:

• Sun Forums, such as Sun Java System Web Server forum
• Web Tier section of Sun Developer Network (SDN)
• Sun wikis, such as:
  • Sun Java System Web Server wiki
  • Sun Java System Web Server FAQ
  • Sun BluePrints wiki
  • BigAdmin wiki
• Documentation at http://docs.sun.com, such as:
  • Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 3 Documentation Center
  • Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 3 Administrator's Guide
  • Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 3 Performance Tuning, Sizing, and Scaling Guide
• Sun Web and Proxy Servers download page
• Sun training courses at http://www.sun.com/training/, such as:
  • Sun Java System Web Infrastructure Suite Overview (WMT-ECR-1508)
  • Sun Java System Web Server 6.1: Administration and Maintenance (ECR-2307)
• Support:
  • Sun resources:
    • Register your Sun gear
    • Services
    • SunSolve Online
  • Community system administration experts
• Sun Java System Web Server web site
• Related resources on BigAdmin:
  • OpenID.sun.com: A Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Reference Deployment
  • Using Sun Java System Web Server With Sun Identity Manager and MySQL Software
  • Sun Forums: A Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Reference Deployment
  • Installing Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 on OpenSolaris Operating System
• Events of interest to users of Sun products
  • Worldwide developer events and Sun Tech Days
  • Current events

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