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by jbyers 17y ago
Don't trust any servers to anyone. When we get a new server we check its stats against reality (have had upside and downside surprises on CPUs), run bonnie++ to make sure IO is as expected (it hasn't been due to exotic RAID problems), and
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Run the numbers when you consider bandwidth, spare parts, cost of employees who run out to colos in the middle of the night, flexibility. Compared to our current hosting (SoftLayer) for a site that does several million pageviews a day, the
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by jbyers 17y ago
It means Amazon AWS is going to keep moving from bare VMs and storage all the way up through every component required to build on the web. And I should have been more clear. When I said relentless, I mean one should consider the possibili
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by jbyers 17y ago
It's been said here many times before: if you are an AWS value-add startup, watch out. Their march up the value chain is relentless.
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by jbyers 17y ago
As I imagine many readers are in Silicon Valley, I'd point out that the San Francisco Bay is one of the best places to sail on earth. Beautiful scenery, 20+ knots of breeze every summer day (scary at first, awesome once you get used to it.
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Five years on and ZFS still remains just out of reach. I'm not a likely user on OS X (anyone got a good use case for laptop use?) but other filesystem + volume management solutions on Linux never seem to match up.
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by jbyers 17y ago
Per the cached copy, the source can be found at https://bitbucket.org/benjaminws/nginxmgr/ This program appears to rewrite the upstream section of the nginx config based on health checks / XML-RPC requests and gracefully reloads nginx via
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by jbyers 17y ago
"Excellent customer service could be the most significant thing you can do." Amen. At Wikispaces we absolutely obsessed over fast, human responses to support questions early on -- and still do. People are regularly shocked to get a respon
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Nice. I hacked something like this into nginx a while back via kestrel but a native module is better by far. Assuming it's up to the high expectations of nginx stability, it's going to further cement nginx as the proxy / lightweight webse
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by jbyers 17y ago
Much of the stuff we order on Amazon Prime comes within 24 hours regardless of the shipping option. It's pretty impressive to order something two-day at 3 PM and have it arrive the next morning. Amazon's operational prowess and relationsh
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by jbyers 17y ago
I wonder if the crabs would rather be temporarily numbered or permanently eaten?
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High Performance at Massive Scale – Lessons learned at Facebook(highscalability.com)
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Profitable in this context being defined as what?
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MySQL's release troubles started well before their acquisition. I think the jury's still out on how Sun does with them.
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The computational time to pack and unpack an IP to an integer is vanishingly small. My old MacBook Pro does 500,000 per second of the corresponding PHP function. The difference between an integer and a fifteen byte string is eleven bytes.
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Honey, I Shrunk the Startups, Part II (Jason Fried / Dave McClure response)(blog.redfin.com)
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Collectd is great. High resolution data collection, reliable, low resource usage. We wrote our own rrd graphs against it.
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While we have a $5/month option, Wikispaces has offered a free service (no ads, same features as paid service, no strings) for K-12 teachers since early 2006. We've given away around 225K wikis under this plan. http://www.wikispaces.com/
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by jbyers 17y ago
More unfortunate still is the huge number of schools trapped in an IE 6 world. Primary and secondary school IT in the US must be worse off than corporate IT -- far too little money, time, and staff to worry about browser versions. Our aud
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by jbyers 17y ago
That's the most interesting not-really-about-computers article I've read on HN in the last two years.
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Mr. Antigravite really needs to get that PhD.
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Could you expand on that? :) We've been happily hosted at SoftLayer for a few years. Our negotiated rates were quite a bit better than Rackspace the last time I checked, curious if their pricing has come down.
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Facebook Chat hits 1B messages per day(facebook.com)
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whereim.com Geo-located IM service?
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Duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=635624 , which has comments.
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All I can think when reading this is: can the test suite for MySQL possibly be this good? I've read the various results found in a search for "mysql test suite", but I don't get the same feeling that I do when reading SQLite's description.
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This article advises the use of RAID in all servers: "But on the server, RAID is a definite must." I submit it as a warning to startups who value their time and money: treat unqualified technology advice with skepticism. RAID has costs in t
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Beyond RAID(codinghorror.com)
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Curious to know what issues you've had with SL's private network? We have more than twenty servers spread across Dallas that rely heavily on their private network. HTTP, MySQL, memcached, etc. Peaks into the hundreds of Mbps. While there
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SoftLayer has a good history of building an API for just about everything they offer. There is currently an API for the CDN [1], I'm sure they'll do the same for the other CloudLayer services. 1. http://sldn.softlayer.com/wiki/index.php/C

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