Flight

Flight is a centralized server, located in Bridgend, South Wales. All members of Squidwolf Syndicatewho live in South Wales are on this single server. The other two public servers are the English server Edge, which is only accessible by North Wales and England citizens and February which is for the US and Canadian members, also the largest server cluster. Beside this there are the gaming servers Sky and Hurricane and the other Project: Hazel servers which are not for the use of the general population.

Load Balancing

In front of the proxy servers there are multiple load balancers to share out incoming connections to the various servers in the proxy layer.

Proxy Layer

The proxy servers are the externally facing segment of the Squidwolf Server cluster. Behind the load balancers, the proxy servers handle tasks such as connection negotiation, routing and data integrity checks. They route traffic to and from the Hazel layer, which handles the actual services. Flight server is connected to the Internet by a 100Mb T3 Fibre connection.

Hazel Layer

The Hazel Layer is the actual workhorse of Flight. All activity is computed on this layer and then shared out to the Proxy Layer.

Hardware

• Two 2.26GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon "Westmere" Processors (12 cores)
• 8GB 1.06GHz DDR3 SDRAM (4x2GB)
• 512GB solid-state drive
• 2TB 7,200-rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive
• 2TB 7,200-rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive
• 2TB 7,200-rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive
• 2TB 7,200-rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive

Database Server

Project: Hazel uses it's own in-house Database software modified Open Directory system with a MySQL front end to enable compatibility with CMS systems which require a database to function.

Network

Internally, the network for Flight consists of a Dual 4Gb Fibre Channel backbone.