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by jread 13y ago
6 months/$300 credit - similar to the AWS 1 year free usage http://aws.amazon.com/free/ . Rackspace needs to upgrade their underlying years old AMD 4170/2374 hardware for cloud servers. This is a limitation fo
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by jread 13y ago
I've conducted some independent tests of various block storage options with Rackspace, EC2, HP and GCE. Here are links providing a CSV of the results (may take a few seconds to generate). A value of 100 signifies near performance parit
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by jread 13y ago
I'm not arguing there will be peace - I'm referring to the Nato war, and I don't think anyone familiar believes it is ending in victory.
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by jread 13y ago
I just returned. The contrast in culture is striking - flying overhead in a sophisticated aircraft watching farmers till land by hand outside mud huts in remote villages - living life as they have for a millennium. Afghans are resilient - N
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Alexa 10,000 and Fortune 500 DNS Marketshare - 30 Jun 2013(blog.cloudharmony.com)
1 points by jread 13y ago|0 comments
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by jread 13y ago
Source encryption does not guarantee endpoint encryption. In the case of gmail via https, an email recipient might download or forward in it in plaintext via pop, imap, smtp or an http email client.
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by jread 13y ago
I believe these statements are sidestepping the facts. Explicit requests for user data and backdoor access are a separate issue. If Prism involves capturing and storing packets at major Internet backbones (perhaps just upstream from private
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by jread 13y ago
They could filter for communication related packets based on port numbers: email, chat, voip, etc. The resulting data feed would be more manageable to capture and store long term.
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by jread 13y ago
When I left they hadn't worked it out, only plaintext artifacts could be extracted. There was discussion of server plugins to intercept and store SSL keys and later use those to decrypt data, but this would require endpoint access and
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by jread 13y ago
This is my belief as well. A few years ago I worked for a company that sold packet capture appliances to unnamed government agencies. The higher end appliances were capable of 10Gb/s packet to disk streaming. I helped write a search in
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by jread 13y ago
CloudFront doesn't use Anycast for content routing - only the DNS side is Anycast
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by jread 13y ago
Author here, "core" is a fuzzy term I suppose, but it's often the most disclosed by services to the outside world. I agree it would be interesting to compare these metrics to some baremetal numbers. It would then be relatively easy to deter
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by jread 13y ago
It routes a single IP address to different DNS servers depending on a user's location. It generally provides lower latency/faster DNS queries by routing users to closer DNS servers.
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by jread 13y ago
You're right - corrected
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by jread 13y ago
Correct - just basic DNS hosting - no extra features. It is only set apart for having 75 Anycast POPs and hosted by Akamai. Route 53 has 28 POPs, Dyn 17, and UltraDNS 33.
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by jread 13y ago
On this topic, today HP Cloud opened access to their Akamai Anycast DNS service with 75 edge locations. Pricing is about the same as Route 53 ($0.35/domain + $0.55/million queries). Not as easy to use as Route 53 yet - configuration is via
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Managed DNS Marketshare - Alexa 10,000 + Fortune 500(blog.cloudharmony.com)
1 points by jread 13y ago|0 comments
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by jread 14y ago
At the bottom of the post - ycombinator.com switched from easyDNS to CloudFlare during the past 30 days
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DNS Marketshare - Alexa 10,000 + Fortune 500(blog.cloudharmony.com)
1 points by jread 14y ago|1 comments
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by jread 14y ago
Rackspace Cloud has regions in the US and UK only. AWS has regions globally including 3 in the US , 1 in Europe, 2 in Asia, 1 in Australia and 1 in South America. Object storage content is often sensitive in nature and not distributed publi
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DNS Provider Marketshare Summary - March 2013(blog.cloudharmony.com)
1 points by jread 14y ago|0 comments
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by jread 14y ago
This report is essentially a summary of network connectivity between 3 arbitrarily chosen external client VMs and 5 object storage platforms: AWS S3, Azure Blob storage, HP Object storage and Google developer storage. The results are highly
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by jread 14y ago
Not really - DNS failover is typically much slower to respond compared to load balancing because records are cached.
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by jread 14y ago
DNS failover is subject to DNS caching and TTL. Load balancing is real time. A DNS driven failover may take 1-10 minutes to trigger versus instantaneous for load balancing. Good approach to failover is a combination of both.
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by jread 14y ago
Correct - it is based on the IP anycast endpoint a resolver connects to, not the geo data associated with the resolver's IP.
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by jread 14y ago
It is very basic - anycast endpoints in US and UK only, and no extra features like failover or geographic load balancing.
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by jread 14y ago
Route 53 is becoming a viable alternative to enterprise providers UltraDNS and Dyn. Performance is solid, but features have been lacking. This is a popular feature those providers charge $100+/mo for versus $0.75/mo on Route 53. Monitoring
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by jread 14y ago
I've spent the past year using Mosh from high latency, unreliable satellite connections in Afghanistan. I would have been pulling my hair out without it. My only complaint is the scrollback buffer often gets jumbled.
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by jread 14y ago
Low latency with a handful of pingdom monitoring nodes sitting in data centers does not necessarily translate to the "fastest repo on the web". We've tested CloudFlare since their launch using thousands of real users, and based on that test
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by jread 14y ago
Just received this email, hasn't been posted to their website yet.

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