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by druiid 14y ago
Blitz is good, but I've found the way to build test-cases fairly limiting. I've used http://www.loadimpact.com to good success. Addendum: Oh, load impact is pricey though.
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by druiid 14y ago
Generally that's kind of how these smaller 'startups' work... and then I get a call and charge my standard rate per hour ;)
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by druiid 14y ago
Well, I can say about the same thing in my experiences. I personally have purchased a good number of the 'daily deal' kinds of things (including from LS), and have returned to a grand total of one. Pretty much among my friends it is much th
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by druiid 14y ago
Previous Rackspace user here (we got fed up with Rackspace and finally got our own equipment for a song compared to our monthly hosting costs with them)... Yeah, good luck if you get a very common DDoS attack while on their network. Apparen
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by druiid 14y ago
Doesn't even have to be static to put nginx in front of it! As long as you can set proper cache headers from your script (in this case Drupal, and I imagine it does), you can cache even dynamic-ish sites quite well!
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by druiid 14y ago
I'm not really certain that this is a valid concern to add into the mix. Yes there is the stat issue with NFS, but if you have a fast filer then 2+ms is an eternity (for example: http://www.storageperformance.org/benchmark_results_files/SP
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by druiid 14y ago
This story and comments have been flogged to death a bit already, but I do have a couple questions/concerns here. While perhaps the issue ended up mostly being due to a Wordpress core issue, I question why this was an issue for a service th
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by druiid 14y ago
I'd question if they are truly wrong to send out news like this? Basically you have to weigh the realities of the 'cloud' with the perception. The perception that many people has is that somehow the 'cloud' is a magical up-time device that
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by druiid 14y ago
For free? No. For pay, yes. There are tooons of people in this space. This is one of the first-movers I am aware of: http://www.phone.com/features/
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by druiid 14y ago
This made me think back to Wordsmith ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordsmith_%28TV_series%29 ). It was the show that got me from a young age thinking about how you break up and form words, etc. To this day in my head from time to time I'll
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by druiid 14y ago
I echo this... although I don't personally use Foreman. You can do scaling type stuff without the tool and I just use POP (plain old puppet). For me personally it took longer to get on the config-management bandwagon but once I did I have n
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by druiid 14y ago
I agree with some of the other new and exciting features already posted.. but I'm surprised no one has mentioned that the Solr Cloud was taken out of beta! That is pretty awesome and we will be looking at this feature closely for sure.
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by druiid 14y ago
We're running 1.8.x to great success. Currently pondering if we want to test with 2.0 or just wait to start testing until 2.0 final is released.
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by druiid 14y ago
Japan has found out pretty much the same thing. With a huge aging population and not enough people to care for them they have/are encountering this issue sooner than the US has (mostly). One of the interesting answers to the problem for the
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by druiid 14y ago
Their site should be up right now. If it's not from one connection you tried, try another. It is okay for me.
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by druiid 14y ago
It was totally and completely down for about a span of 10 minutes then they fixed their site, but external routing is still very very spotty.
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by druiid 14y ago
Their site was down for a while as well. It's back up now, but the routing is still down. Quick tip: Go to control panel, select the gear drop-down by your website and select 'pause cloudflare' until things resolve.
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by druiid 14y ago
Sure. Maybe I should do a writeup for it on my blog at some point in the near future :). The two main issues we encountered both had to do with search for products/categories on our sites. The first was that Galera/WSREP doesn't support MyI
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by druiid 14y ago
Well, I have to say... replication related issues like this are why I/we are now using a Galera backed DB cluster. No need to worry about which server is active/passive. You can technically have them all live all the time. In our case we ha
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by druiid 14y ago
shrug I know how BGP works, yes. I think though from the symptoms of the issue it is going to end up being (If Godaddy is telling the truth about not being hacked), as you say, a compound failure. The exact cause of such a failure is left
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by druiid 14y ago
And if it was human error, that's fine! Stuff happens and I can certainly say that I've done my share of human error. I want to mention a couple things though. The first is that the blame is being placed (at least reading slightly into the
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by druiid 14y ago
Ughh. That sounds about what I expected unfortunately. Sorry to hear this as any reasonable corporate structure understands 'shit' happens in the tech universe. Fix it as expediently as possible and move on, putting in place as much protect
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by druiid 14y ago
Heh, yeah. It is a bit difficult to interpret PR speak (and I have had to correct our guy before). I think perhaps the takeaway from here is to not trust what is being said, go with your gut... and move any services off GoDaddy ;). Would be
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by druiid 14y ago
None of that is necessarily incorrect... but per their news release 'corrupted router data tables' (their words) were the issue. I can't read too much into that, but that still doesn't change the fact that DNS wasn't resolving for a while a
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by druiid 14y ago
I find this extremely suspicious (I.E. knowing routers, I call bullshit). The change to the Verisign anycast DNS service which I noted yesterday in another thread... brought godaddy.com back up, yet did not result in bringing other DNS serv
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by druiid 14y ago
I'd say (although until seeing the DDoS numbers, I suppose I can't assume anything) that any large hosting provider like this should have an infrastructure in place for taking care of a large attack like this. To have any less at this late
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by druiid 14y ago
And in case anyone doesn't believe this: Default server: a1.verisigndns.com Address: 2001:500:7967::2:33#53 > www.godaddy.com Server: a1.verisigndns.com Address: 209.112.113.33#53 Name: www.godaddy.com Address: 184.168.
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by druiid 14y ago
The angle that a company responsible for hosting DNS, site hosting, SSL and similar services is incapable of bringing their own site back up without resorting to using a competitors services.
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by druiid 14y ago
I'm assuming they're adding the Verisign DDoS protection service, but this change should make EVERY single Godaddy client very, very, very nervous (from the current whois): Domain Name: GODADDY.COM Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC Who
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by druiid 14y ago
Not to be snarky... but unfortunately their status page is down as well.

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