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30 minutes of darkness

Friday, March 6, 2009

It might be closer to 40, but regardless.

My beloved little server “Jules” who sits on a shelf in a colo in Dallas, had a hiccup today.

I still don’t know exactly what happened, but something caused him to go ‘dark’.

Thankfully the folks over at SprocketNetworks are fantastic, specifically Josh.

THANKS JOSH!

I have not had a problem with Jules in quite, quite a long time. If memory served and I should have gotten a snapshot of this. Jules had been online for over a year.

Things seems to be back to normal. Replacing Jules has come to mind. I am torn between something completely virtual, like Amazon’s EC2 or replacing him with a new box.

I am going to crunch the numbers and see what the best solution is.

Laterz, time to eat.

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A little bit of DoS in the afternoon

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

The colocation company that houses the server hosting this blog and a few others, was attacked via CYBER GREMLINS!!!

I was in the middle of futzing with something from a Sys Admin perspective, something minor like a 5 minute tweak and BAM, my connection froze up. I thought I broke the server.

After a few minutes of this, I thought it might be a network problem here in the office. Nope, my connection to other places was acting just fine. Leading me to think it might be a network problem with the colo. Try as I might I couldn’t get to the colo’s website, definitely a sure sign of something BAD going down with the provider.

I used that nifty little “cached” link that Google gives you and I was able to get the phone number and speak to one of the tech support reps. He informed me that about 5-10 minutes ago their network came under a DoS attack, which coincided with the issues I experienced while trying to do that quick 5 minute tweak.

About 10 minutes after talking with the tech support rep everything looks like it is under control.

Yippie!!!

For a few minutes there I thought about what it would be like to have a virtual server with Amazon or some other “Cloud Computing” company.

Maybe when Jules is another year older I will look at doing a “virtual” cloud based server, because I am never going back to a traditional VPS.

Back to the grind.

Laterz

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