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by carl_ 17y ago
about:blank
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by carl_ 17y ago
Pingdom with email2sms gateway for external/global checks and zabbix for internal checks
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by carl_ 17y ago
honestly?: - eat crap one day, eat healthy other. - don't own a car/walk and take the stairs rather than lift. - avoid public transport (where possible). - work hard. - get a good full 4 to 9 hours sleep per night. - do some light weights e
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by carl_ 17y ago
I use zabbix over ~<1000 physical and virtual hosts for historical resource usage and alerting. Cacti for network traffic monitoring (and alerting using thold plugin). Smokeping for network latency and availability monitoring and alerti
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by carl_ 17y ago
So in 2012 can we be expecting iphone (as cpu) > 10Gbps > Keyboard Video Mouse Network?
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by carl_ 17y ago
Zabbix for servers Cacti for networks
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by carl_ 18y ago
In "Critical Mass" by Philip Ball chapter 7 covers "The inexorable dynamics of traffic" which is highly worth a read if this subject matter interests you. There's also some very interesting sections on crowd dynamics and route finding.
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by carl_ 18y ago
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/10/18/data-... may be interesting to you
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by carl_ 18y ago
Last time I checked they charged per 1,000 DNS requests?
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by carl_ 18y ago
Enom have had several large scale outages in recent memory. We've got nearly 3000 domains under our enom reseller account, I wouldn't touch any our domains on their nameservers.
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by carl_ 18y ago
You've had it too good for too long. Consider Apples innovation in the last three years compared to any (or all) of their competitors... even the glorious Apple can't deliver at the rate they're expected. The batteries better perform as wel
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by carl_ 18y ago
Also, Dell price-match RAM to crucial for me which might be useful for the servers you need.
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by carl_ 18y ago
Lots of great comments so not much add/kinda like others have said: When dealing direct with vendors (Dell, Sun and IBM from experience): 1) Price you're given is not only based on current purchase, but future purchase. Telling your sales r
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by carl_ 18y ago
If you're talking about providing a high capacity and quality experience then there's no alternative to colo. I think the /Mbps prices quoted are a bit on the high side (you can get cheap transit at 5GBP/Mbps if you deal in reasonable commi
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by carl_ 18y ago
all valid points. The poster might also want to consider using a CDN if it's single request streaming files, otherwise colo as you said. whatever you choose make sure it can scale fast, but at the same time (depending on your presentation o
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by carl_ 18y ago
Brilliant! She seems to 'punctuate' like an English man and describes exactly what I do when culling resumes from the pile on the first pass.
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by carl_ 18y ago
Sounds interesting, is it anything to-do with http://geekup.org/events/ ? I was thinking of checking out the Sheffield one.
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by carl_ 18y ago
"It would say something about myself" If I walked into your office and you gave me a "conversation starter" along that line, I'd think you had a chip on your shoulder. It's one thing to be proud of your achievements, a different one to use
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by carl_ 18y ago
You're talking 65:35 of... zero right now. I'd say he gets that share if he sticks with it (meaning you stay in business) for three years. Additionally if you make this such a large pain point, then are they the correct co-founder to begin
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by carl_ 18y ago
Start without ads, gain your traffic, ebay your adspace and then advertise these listings in the adspace your selling. Depending on your volume, niche and longevity it might work. Just an idea. EDIT: Sorry, just saw noodles point.
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by carl_ 18y ago
i think promoting something on the 'drugs & chemicals of concern' by the DOJ alongside med-pot might be a bit of a hard sell to almost everyone
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by carl_ 18y ago
try doing a search for DDoS in the colo forum over at webhostingtalk.com