Sky
Sky is one of the two servers that compose the Squidwolf Gaming Network. Sky hosts Quake III Arena and Quake IV Arena HazelMatchmaking games along with an Urban Terror Server. Hurricane hosts Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour, and Rise of Nations GOLD games.
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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. Sky server is connected to the Internet by a T1 700Mb Fibre connection.
Hazel Layer
The Hazel Layer is the actual workhorse of Sky. All activity is computed on this layer and then shared out to the Proxy Layer.
Hardware
- Two 2.26GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon "Nehalem" Processors (4 cores)
- 6GB 1.06GHz DDR3 SDRAM (3x2GB)
- 160GB 7,200-rpm SATA drive
- 1TB 7,200-rpm SATA Drive
- 1TB 7,200-rpm SATA Drive
- 450GB 15,000-rpm SAS drive with 32MB disk cache
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 Sky consists of a Quad-4Gb Fibre Channel backbone with gigabit ethernet redundancy.
