THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
Overview
The OpenOffice.org Community forums are hosted under the domain http://user.services.openoffice.org/ and comprise 9 National Language (NL) forums: Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Vietnamese. A total of 15 language packs are supported across the 9 NL forums, (the 9 main language plus 6 other major language variants). Across all forums there are some 75,000 registered members, who have created 300,000 posts on 78,000 topics. A typical usage is ~200,000 page requests/day, with another ~800,000 image, CSS and other furniture needed to load these pages.
The forums are implemented in phpBB at version 3.0.8 running on Solaris Coolstack on a 4 core Solaris zone in the Oracle Germany data centre (at an average 3-8% us+sy load). PhpBB only requires a standard LAMP stack, and test and development shadows of the production system are currently implemented on an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS VM running a standard Ubuntu server minimal LAMP configuration. The application uses both a file system and D/B (currently MySQL) to maintain application data. These are currently some 2.5GiB and 1.5GiB in raw size.
The phpBB application has a number of special to OOo modifications and the process for carrying these forward over phpBB upgrade has now been refined over 5 phpBB application upgrades. The configuration also include a number of custom scripts to carry out nightly hot-copy backup, a mailbox service and a service watchdog. This script will require some rework for an Apache.org environment and to comply with Apache SysOps and Security Standards.
However, since cloning of this system is routinely carried out as part of current support processes, any relocation to Apache Infrastructure is viewd as a low technical risk activity.