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by jbyers 18y ago
All this script needs is the bulk-whois gateway on the other end. But seriously, anyone know of a whois service who allows free high-volume lookups?
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by jbyers 18y ago
I love Don's technical posts on smugmug. All the gory details, no pulled punches, no equivocating about what hardware/software/services are or aren't working for them. And ZFS on Linux would be huge. I just hope Sun is on the path.
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by jbyers 18y ago
From what you've said, I doubt host swapping is a good idea - yet. First you need to get a good understanding of what's causing the system to run out of memory. One way to do this is to watch vmstat and top when the system is failing, or
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by jbyers 18y ago
This little asteroid will be 5 m(eters) in diameter, quite a lot less than 15 m(iles) in diameter. :) Note that if we're talking about the asteroid that created the Chicxulub crater, most references seem to have the size a bit smaller, ~6 m
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by jbyers 18y ago
I was a big fan of lighttpd in 2006. It saved us from Apache (in our case replacing Apache + mod_php with lighttpd + php via fastcgi) at a time when we had an acute need to scale up on a limited set of hardware. But in the last two and a h
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by jbyers 18y ago
Any comment on the nature of what looks like a very large recent traffic spike (at least, per Alexa's graph)? What's being watched, who's watching it, any triggering events?
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by jbyers 18y ago
Wikispaces (a PBWiki competitor) had our Wikipedia entry deleted in August 2006. At the time we were non-notable and had a medium- to low-quality entry written by others. During our deletion process, we argued that it was perfectly reason
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by jbyers 18y ago
No doubt putting it on Google.com would have a huge impact. Did they do this? I didn't see such a link on Google.com yesterday or today, logged in or logged out.
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by jbyers 18y ago
Let's say for the sake of simplicity that there are 1 billion Internet users worldwide. (I believe this understates the population, but I can't find an authoritative stat quickly. [1]) Did 20 million of them successfully download, install,
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by jbyers 18y ago
The beauty of memcached is that it isn't on steroids. It just works, and works well from VPS-running-rails-side-project scale all the way up to multi-datacenter-Facebook-platform scale. You can't push intelligence into your memcached tier
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by jbyers 18y ago
I don't mind Wikipedia's standards, but I wish they were more evenly applied. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of companies that are less notable than YC that will never be deleted. Instead it is those that are somehow controversial an
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by jbyers 18y ago
I was in Zimbabwe in September of last year. This article matches very closely with our impressions of the political climate of the country and seems consistent with the opinions of the Zimbabweans we talked to -- at least, those who were
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by jbyers 18y ago
#6 Wrong Platform -- this one gave me pause. It's correct, but only in a more specific case than stated by the author. Unless you're building an exotic application [1] choose a platform in which you are very productive and that is used by
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by jbyers 18y ago
I bet that in a month, Cuil is still a top 1000 site according to the usual measurement services. Maybe the buzz has died and I find many faults with their launch strategy (and results) -- but they still built and shipped a fast Internet-s
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by jbyers 18y ago
I'm sure the other six years of hard work and $18M in funding had nothing to do with it. :) Congratulations on the acquisition. For the curious, the company in question is Trovix.
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by jbyers 18y ago
I'm happy for their index to be enormous, but to proclaim it's "bigger than Google's" at launch entirely misses the point of search: finding things. First find things. Then tell me your haystack is way bigger than the next guy's.
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by jbyers 18y ago
The next "Google killer" won't be labeled as such until it's already "killed Google" (whatever that means). It'll sneak up on the pundits by challenging assumptions so deeply seated they completely ignore it. As for Cuil, I hope they build
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by jbyers 18y ago
It seems to work well enough. I put in topics, it spits out stories. I "flip" articles, they go away, hopefully some robot takes notice and makes the next set better. But I can't help wonder what the bigger plan is for this service. It d
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by jbyers 18y ago
It's a great accomplishment to book thousands of dollars of revenue within a few weeks of launch. But as the article states, this is profitability without covering salary -- a big disclaimer.
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by jbyers 18y ago
I don't understand the value of this library. For non-SSL static files, the usual techniques apply: long-term expires headers, gzip compression, combining multiple scripts, CDN, etc. For SSL content, IE7 and FF3 will use disk caching for
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by jbyers 18y ago
Nice concept, love that it challenges assumptions about the lowest possible barriers to posting.
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by jbyers 18y ago
Shared hosting? Depends heavily on what technologies you want to use. VPS? Slicehost Dedicated server(s)? Softlayer
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by jbyers 18y ago
... and don't use one of the packing (NB: packing, not minifying) approaches unless you measure and understand the performance impact on clients first. Large packed JS can take hundreds of ms to unpack on slow clients.
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by jbyers 18y ago
In brevity, there is great power. I love python for this sort of programming.
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crickets
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by jbyers 18y ago
Try webperform. They were purchased by Gomez, but basic remote testing is free: http://www.webperform.com/ Most frontend optimizations will help everywhere, so as ericb says, do those first. We turned on a CDN (Panther) and used this se
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by jbyers 18y ago
Nicely written. The authors of nearly all the myriad "how to fix twitter" posts I've read have trivialized scaling a site that has different properties from most online services. Scaling anything to twitter-like traffic levels is hard,
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The Quest for Reliability on the Internet (5 Nines)(gigaom.com)
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by jbyers 18y ago
As the author points out, php's rand function is garbage on some systems. mt_rand (based on the Mersenne twister) has been the suggested replacement for many years; it's built in, fast, and consistent across platforms.
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by jbyers 18y ago
boto's a great library, we've been using it for S3 for years without a hitch. Mitch's tutorials are nice examples of what's possible with the Amazon services: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?ex... http://develo

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