DDF Intermittently Down?

[clownaparte]

I would say around 150gb of outbound traffic.

The fastest FIOS line would give you a little over 4 MB/s theoretical up. Your peak times may saturate that. I'm sure you can look at the logs to see peak traffic? Would that be enough? (Monthly traffic alone obviously doesn't tell the whole story...)

[Name Changed]

Verizon provides 8hr battery backup, plus there is a port for secondary power. Battery backup for the server shouldn't be too expensive. I wouldn't base it in Monsey, but Flatbush should be pretty safe. As a backup you could have it auto FTP backup to a host, get the cheapest package, and just switch to the web host and up your package if the servers main power will be black for more than a few hours. I really don't know that much about web hosting, but it seems like it should be feasible.

+1

Sounds pretty good... But verizons battery only keeps the line up, the server also need power

You could get a apc for a few hundred $ that will keep the server running.

Sure, until there's a power outage, etc.

How often is there power outages?

[AsherO]

You could get a apc for a few hundred $ that will keep the server running.

An 8 hour server UPS (APC is a brand that makes them) for a few hundred?

[Name Changed]

An 8 hour server UPS (APC is a brand that makes them) for a few hundred?

My bad - Meant UPS ...
I never said 8 hours 

[AsherO]

I never said 8 hours 

You were responding to a guy who did, see your quote.

[BAHayman]

The fastest FIOS line would give you a little over 4 MB/s theoretical up. Your peak times may saturate that. I'm sure you can look at the logs to see peak traffic? Would that be enough? (Monthly traffic alone obviously doesn't tell the whole story...)

http://smallbusiness.verizon.com/products/internet/fios/plans.aspx

The 35mbps up plan is $149.99 a month with static ip and no contract...

[BAHayman]

I'm going to play with some theories when I get a chance.

[AsherO]

http://smallbusiness.verizon.com/products/internet/fios/plans.aspx

The 35mbps up plan is $149.99 a month with static ip and no contract...

And you'd have to bring (and maintain) your own hardware, backup etc..

[Dan]

An advertiser complained that clustrmaps was sending them thousands of requests a minute.
I've deleted it off of the main site.
Who knows maybe that's been the problem all these years (Here's hoping at least!)

[Chaikel]

I doubt a standard VZW Fios line could sustain the current traffic of DD/DDF.

Just DDF, not DD. I don't think Dan would want DD based in someone's basement

+1

Sounds pretty good... But verizons battery only keeps the line up, the server also need power

You could get a apc for a few hundred $ that will keep the server running.

Uh... I wrote that in my post

And you'd have to bring (and maintain) your own hardware, backup etc..

Not too big a deal. Most of the soft maintenance can be done remotely. A redundant HD array will eliminate the need for pressing hard maintenance. I really can't imagine it being that much work. Then again if it's a memory leak, adding RAM will only help you so much, and changing servers really wont do much

[AJK]

An advertiser complained that clustrmaps was sending them thousands of requests a minute.
I've deleted it off of the main site.
Who knows maybe that's been the problem all these years (Here's hoping at least!)

It wasn't:

[BAHayman]

And apache is using 1.3gb for some odd reason right now... I am looking into nginx instead of apache...

[Red]

wow everything just sped up tremendously, a click and load.

[BAHayman]

wow everything just sped up tremendously, a click and load.

Yup because apache found a way to jump from 1.3gb to 600mb... hence why I think its leaking somehow...

[BAHayman]

So... I just switched the web server from apache2 to nginx. Memory usage is wayyy down as of now, I will keep monitoring the memory usage.

Please post if you have any issues (slower/page not found/cannot connect/etc).

Thanks.

[Yo ssi]

Was DDF just down?

[TimT]

I had trouble getting on for a minute.