US East coast Ensembl mirror now available
We are pleased to announce the public availability of a second Ensembl mirror in the USA. This can be found at http://useast.ensembl.org/ . This provides a fully functional Ensembl website, but there are some things to note which I've listed below.
Redirection
We don't automatically redirect users to the new mirror, although we have plans for this in future. So for now you'll need to explicitly visit http://useast.ensembl.org/ to access it.
User logins
If you use the login functionality, your existing login will work on http://useast.ensembl.org/ , although configuration changes will not be reflected between sites. We plan to support shared logins very soon.
Other services
We don't yet offer the Biomart or BLAST/BLAT services on the new mirror; these will come in the near future. We currently have no plans to offer a US-based MySQL mirror, so you should continue use ensembldb.ensembl.org for MySQL queries.
We're very keen to hear your experiences with this new mirror, particularly from our US users, please use the Helpdesk in the first instance, or contact me directly. We also have advanced plans for mirrors in other parts of the world, so stay tuned!
3 comments:
It's really slow to use API (indirectly use Mysql) to connect to ensembldb.ensembl.org!
Because users from all over the world should connect to the same site, which makes it really slow, especially if we want to calculate large amount of data.
I'm wondering whether they can set up mirrors in US to make it faster or do you have any other solutions?
At the moment, the only mirrors out there are of the website, but we will keep you posted if this changes.
Dear Pengyao,
At this moment we don't have a MySQL instance available in any of our mirrors.
Please don't hesitate to contact us either using our developers mailing list (worth subscribing to it) dev@ensembl.org or or use our helpdesk so we could help you optimising your code to make sure you are using the best methods.:
http://www.ensembl.org/info/about/contact/mailing.html
http://www.ensembl.org/Help/Contact
Xose
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