WMF Projects/Upgrade Payments Infrastructure

Feature justification
Current payment server is not scaling

User requirements
Be able to serve 100% of our banners with 1click donations at a 3% (best banner) + 2% (variance window)

Specification
Upgrade payments server with the following
 * APC
 * Squid
 * LVS
 * Memcache

Software design document
Our goal is to allow for Squid caching of the credit card gateway form and its variants to reduce server load. In order to support this, the software that supports the forms (DonationInterface/payflowpro_gateway extension) will require some rearchitecting.

Test plan
Use Apache Bench (ab) to determine page load times for the various forms under different load scenarios, with different scaling configurations, compare results to baseline (no LVS/squid/APC) results to determine efficacy.

User interface design docs
None needed yet

Test APC

 * 10/8 - Test APC

APC was not enough to take on the full load of the Jimmy Appeal @ 30% or 60%. Details to follow.

Squid

 * 10/5

LVS + Memcache

 * 10/22 (or 10/29) - Test LVS+Memcache

Hardware Orders

 * Upgrade main payments box to 6core version RT #274

Community management plan
Document lessons learned and coordinate with chapters.