hello everyone
i'm asking for a good windows vps provider
any suggestions?
bashas: budget?
no limits
but i need a good reviewed one
with a good spec
check VPS offers at: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?s=1c5bb91bee9812bf871e252e57078dda&f=104
'good' can mean different things to different people :-)
yes :) i know
but anyway, tnx dude for ur help
checking the forum
you are better off asking stuff like: so much RAM, managed vs Un managed etc ? Disk Space, Location
what's managed an unmanaged? a new term to me? btw i'm a web developer
and i need to host a project, it has few hits daily, but do some processing every few mins using C# threads
if you have to ask, you probably need managed
unmanaged is like no software support from the hohst
you need to take care of all software install and config
the project aim is to download some html pages and parse them, and extract data from it and put into a sql db
host will only support underlying network and virtualization, power etc
unmanaged is a shared windows u mean, right?
but managed is a full windows machine with total control, am i right
the box will be shared, you will have total control on  your own instance
admin / root access
https://www.liquidweb.com/storm/vps.html
those guys are pretty good
i know they are shared, one server hosts few Virtual Machines
right
anyway got to go
ok np bro.
thanks very much
i'll try to google and understand the deep details of manage and unmanaged
Managed: The host/provider "manages" the system, installing updates, changing settings, all the server admin stuff for you.
Unmanaged: You're responsible for maintaining the server, keeping software up to date, etc.
ie. your home computer is unmanaged.
Whereas in a corporate environment with corporate IT, your work computer is "managed"
Hope that clears things up
That's what she said!!
brycec: very useful
thanks dude :)
is someone trying to get rid of windows users? :)
i suppose if someone asks if they need manager or unmanaged they need managed.
oh mnathani said that :)
lol
I dare say that a whole VPS for a small site is overkill too
but I'm not too experienced in the windows hosting arena... maybe there are providers that won't allow you to run your own program periodically?
(Regardless - sounds like something that a LAMP stack could easily do)
Man - when a SAN runs out of disk space, servers really don't handle that well
(for loose definitions of SAN and server)
(KVM machines with NFS-backed storage, to be exact)
if it's just for a site, azure sites works well enough
there's other stuff that can run asp in a similar containerized env too
Azure has a free tier too, as I recall
yeah, that's how i played with it
supports code repo autodeployment too (ala heroku)
i think background stuff could be annoying on shared windows hosting
i'm paranoid about shared web hosting myself
background stuff?
i finished building my "less complicated" fermenter controller today
he said about c# threads in background or something?
oh, probably similar to background php processes or whatever
I figure it's roughly equivalent to a cron job
yeah
just executing at some interval
does shared hosting normally let you do that?
shared windows hosting is infuriating to deal with
no idea, haven't ever used windows shared stuff
i really really dislike shared anything with asp.net
because of trust level/privs
and most shared hosts don't like to give full trust
and for a lot of things, you have to contact the host
tend to kind of just run it in a vm because effort
probably similar cost-wise as vm stuff keeps getting cheaper
the problem is that it tends to restrict your choice of hosts
because windows licencing is opening schrodinger's dvd case
(Every shared lunix host I've had lets me schedule cron jobs, fwiw)
that being said.. i do have a shared hosting account on a linux place i like, because they let me run my own apache/nginx/rails/python server like flask or something, and just let me use a port to reverse proxy it from frontend loadbalancer
and allow compilers/installing binaries/etc
but that's literally the only 1 single linux shared host i know that does that, everything else is terrible
i hate cpanel/plesk/etc with a passion
cpanel still claims to support python and ruby on rails, which is a massive, hilarious lie
tbh i feel like the adoption of non-php web languages is partially because of control panels (and a bit on the languages themselves)
php is drag and drop, and visit url
that has never been, nor will it in the near future be the case for nodejs, python, ruby, [...]
and without ssh access, in general, it's borderline impossible to run on shared hosting
yeah
PHP apps are stupid easy to deploy
as dumb as it is, being able to simply upload index.php and be able to visit index.php
if you try to explain the concept of routes to someone that "just wants a forum"
many people don't seem to be able to parse the concept of "upload index.php, and you can visit /login"
so not supporting apache's single-file .htaccess rewrite thing (which is kind of inefficient since it seems to recurse every subdirectory and whatnot)
as far as most of the people i deal with know, .htaccess is black magic
That's what she said!!
the thing that pisses me off the most is that really shitty shared hosting providers are not helping
like cpanel hosts that lie about having python support
and then someone tries to "install a python webapp" and it fails miserably
by python support, they mean the host has python installed
not that you can use it
bahaha
cpanel is "the standard"
it's pretty disgusting yes.
Posted 1 year ago
Why does CPanel continue ignoring requests for supporting Python/Django
laugh
i was surprised by how long it took me to get smokeping working with nginx
nginx with fastcgi is a bit confusing.
at least for php, nginx + fcgi is 4 lines
not so much actual cgi-bin applications
but i like the idea of micro vps with nginx/php/etc all seperate.
this is perl
you need to use fcgiwrap
not so much actual cgi-bin applications <- i've never actually had to run something cgi/perl
like for web
i think that was common maybe before i was born but idk
there's a few ways to plug that support into nginx
it's just really foreign to me as a concept
it was easier on ubuntu than arch linux tbh
mod_perl sucks
reminds me
what happened to gentoo
i used thttpd as a cgi-proxy years ago
wasn't it all the nerd-rage a decade ago
behind nginx
everyone seems to have moved to arch or something from what i can gather
i think it's still around
m0unds: i've been using lighttpd for ages, but thought i'd try nginx because nginx is adding spdy support and fastopen support
fastopen is really easy to enable in nginx.  in lighttpd i have a source hack.
nginx pisses me off with their commercial product offering
hazardous: why?
they have a commercial product offering?
haha
i need the ability to kick out unresponsive backends for reverse proxying
m0unds: yeah.
this is commercial product only
minimum few thousand a year
required support contract
ah
they're still putting mroe effort into their open source offering than anyone else.
there is no way i can buy like "just want this module"
i don't want support
i just literally want one config option enabled
i don't need SLA, i don't need tickets
but that's totally not available to me
i would happily pay like 50-100/yr just for the ability to use a few extra config options
but a few thousand i can't afford
defining backends to reverse proxy is free - doing anything else with them, like checking if they are online, setting randomization, removing or adding backends
is a $$$$ feature only
so backends can hang and it can't fix it?
isn't that spawnfcgi's job?
i have this problem in that my backends are closed-source binaries that i don't have access to, and occasionally they die
i would like to run a script if one doesn't return or sends a 5xx
i would also like to check periodically if they  respond
so now.. i use chinese nginx
are you in china hazardous ?
no
i'm in freedom-land
canada?
wow
close enough
Obviously kicking the backend can be scripted (kill $pid), so you're just missing the ability to query a specific backend directly?
brycec: yeh how would he know which one to kill
brycec: http://tengine.taobao.org/document/http_upstream_check.html
i wonder what happened to dtrace coming to linux
http://tengine.taobao.org/document/http_upstream_consistent_hash.html
i kind of like the idea of tracing normal programs
these are all bsaically nonexistent in free nginx
and some kind of autodetection of weird behaviour
So it kicks it out of the nginx pool
heh brycec
screwing up is normal human behaviour
error handling is often terrible on unix
actualyl with software in general
brycec: even manually removing a backend temporarily in nginx is paid, iirc
without editing configs
much less having proactive health checks that let you define "after x failures, drop this out, but readd it if it starts responding later on"
relayd can do that btw hazardous
if you have multiple servers
Yeah - I ran across a "need" (want, really) to do that and found it only came with money
if you want a laugh, my primary web frontend has 9 VPNs running on top of each other
but if one out of 4 backends is doing it or something, and it returns 5xx on one of them i dunno how it'd handle that
One could easily kick/restart the backend with your own script though, but it does nothing for nginx
if someone wrote a backend handler that also did performance monitoring etc
they could probably sell it
capturing the 5xx and identifying where it came from is the thing for me, because i just want to drop it out of my uplinks for a while until my watchdog processes notice and restart it
tengine's upstream_check thing lets you set things like timeout msec, expecting 200 OK or 302 or something, and checks ssl handshakes
by default all backends are offline until they pass their first check
i really wish i could just use stock nginx, i'd be happy to support their efforts and whatnot, but it's just not feasible for anything not business
 what about sticking a wrapper program around your binarys
define wrapper program
[they are windows binaries that listen on a port, running on remote hosts]
runs your cgi script, sees that it behaves
has an abort if it takes too long, or if it does 5xx.
i have 1,539 backends
oh
lol;
relayd should handle that then
That's what she said!!
the thing is.. it also returns HTTP 200 for failed requests
which is bsd hmm.
with error text in the body
oh
that's annoying :)
so i also check if it returns a XML response that contains 'failed_err'
you could do your own monitoring script and take them out
there's a few failure states, one of them is named "SHOULD_NEVER_HAPPEN_RACE_CONDITION_TRAP"
i've encountered that af ew times
are all the backends the same, you're just load balancing to them?
load balancing to them across vpn, every 150 or so is a different country, some are domestic-internet-only, some are only accessible from one isp
tl;dr asia
i think your situation is complex enough that it warrants coding for it.
fun thing of the day, i was told that in south korea, reverse dns is illegal unless i have a south korean business licence, and it can take up to 6 months to complete the application process for a single PTR record, and that delegation of NS/PTR/CNAME is not allowed
wow.
all PTR requests have to go through KRNIC
if you've ever wondered why almost no south korean ip has a PTR, well, that might explain it maybe
china doesn't have PTR either ?
china occasionally has isps that have applied for PTR for their whole netblock
none of which have forward dns, most of them completely invalid
lol
this is basically standard for all of asia
my upstream in vietnam assigns datacenter colo, dynamic adsl, dialup, voip, and iptv out of the same subnet
i can pull a dynamic adsl ip from colo, from standard dhcp pool
all static IPs have the reverse dns 'dynamic.vdc.vn', and this isn't editable
they have several /16's that consist entirely of 'dynamic.vdc.vn' exactly, not unique ptr per ip
theres also the whole "having to bribe customs and shipping officials or else your hardware gets stolen" thing
wow.
has anyone tried the new apache httpd?
err new openbsd httpd
lol way to goof that :P
i'm not exactly sure why openbsd is doing their own httpd
back in thttpd/boa/lighttpd/etc days there were heaps of them
i jumped from boa to lighttpd myself
That's what she said!!
Same reason they do their own everything - to keep full control over it
openbsd made a httpd?
yeh based on relayd it seems.
So more pf.conf-style syntax!
looks like it's pretty basic
they also made their own smtpd
i like relayd.
httpd is extremely basic at this point
all i want/need is static file serving from a dir
OpenSMTPD is pretty great
sendmailis prettty bad
opensmtpd is awesome, i wish there debian/ubuntu packages for it
its in sid but thats about it
there needs to be linux kernel with openbsd userland :)
that exists
it's called windows
:)
what's the "in" orchestration tool nowadays
puppet? ansible?
it seems to change weekly
puppet and chef are the big "in" ones from what I can see
But there's still a lot to be said about using the right tool for the job
such as ansible in my case
ansible <3
ansible++
ansible++
ansible has some interesting advantages
we interviewed them for floss
along with puppet, chef, cfengine, saltstack... :)
I needed something to do some basic script-able tasks, without reinventing the wheel myself. Ansible gives me that and a bit more. I was up and running in ~minutes, rather than the overhead of chef or puppet.
so the nerd portion is ansible
i don't want massive overhead, custom daemons, etc
hazardous: reading the scrollback, what was that shared linux host you found that let you run your own web server?
This looks like a really cool position: https://ams-ix.net/about/careers--2/project-stagiair-noc
you going to apply mnathani ?
mercutio: if only I met the requirements
:-)
i don't think it had many requirements?
it sounded like it'd be a bit boring though
Following this project, the internee will follow/collaborate with
AMS-IX network engineers to work on
it's bsaically just a testing/scripting job from what i can see
I suppose they would have some basic on the job training
it's also probably in amsterdam
but yeah what they're doing sounds interesting
i'm trying to add high dpi support to smokeping
i got the overview looking better..
but smokeping isn't saying the size for normal images when you go to the page :(  so i can't just half it.
> isn't saying the size for normal images
isn't saying it where?
in the html
oh
it's just referencing the made image
apparently the way to make high dpi work easiest, is you just define the size as half of the actual image size.
and high dpi displays will show all the detial.
got it
you could mess with the image generation I guess
That's what she said!!
is it really?
BryceBot: no
Oh, okay... I'm sorry. 'you could mess with the image generation I guess'
i am doubling the rrdtool created image size
and want to touch smokeping as little as possible.
That's what she said!!
BryceBot: no
Oh, okay... I'm sorry. 'and want to touch smokeping as little as possible.'
does smokeping just invoke the rrdtool command with some args?
i think so
        # HIGH DPI
        $xs=$xs/2;
        $ys=$ys/2;
that in the right place fixes the overview.
That's what she said!!
with just doubling the size in the config.
BryceBot: no
Oh, okay... I'm sorry. 'that in the right place fixes the overview.'
because the overview defines the size explicitly in the html?
it's perl generated html
and overview does yes.
but detail doesn't.
i could try and understand the code more..
mercutio: I'm editing .pm files in /usr/share/perl5/Smokeping
but nothing seems to happen
got it
what did you do?
you have to restart fcgiwrap
i found that $xs{''} is used somewhere else
and added in width and height with that
i haven't done much perl
cool
what's the difference between $xs and $xs{''}
i think the smokeping code is messy :)
http://pastebin.com/tPWXf0an
curly braces are used to access hash tables?
http://202.49.71.24:24/smokeping/smokeping.fcgi?target=Wider.google
that's got it running on it
now i just need the text size bigger...
That's what she said!!
looks super tiny on my monitor :P
it would be cool if rrdtool rendered svg instead of raster
the text or graph?
i think rrdtool can
i just wanted to start with something
well, all of it
you mean the graph is small or the text is small?
the text mostly
yeah the text is small for me too
on my monitor, it's a bit blurry
the text on the left is a little small, the text in the image is tiny
probably because of the scaling
i'm at 1440p
but yeah the text size needs to be bumped up
That's what she said!!
I'm at 1024x768 atm
do you use 100% zoom?
oh
yea
ouch at 1024x768 acf_
so yeah high dpi won't help you at all
That's what she said!!
nope :P
still it should work without high dpi too :)
it'll still be blurry a little probably
I just  moved down to 1 1080p display, from 2x 1280x1024 + 1x 1080p
i have 4k+1440p
Windows or *Nix?
1440p on windows and 4k on linux
chrome sucks on linux at 4k though
text looks amazing though :)
consoles are so ... nice... :)
white banners on right and left?
huh?
how many inches on the 4k display?
28"
vs 27" for 1440p
it hardly looks any bigger tbh
they came down in cost a lot
the white regions when you make the browser full screen
i'm using radeon 7750 for video
oh i mean scrolling is slow
and i haven't been able to make url bar big yet
actually scrolling was slow on 1440p too
it just got worse
the video card should be fine...
i think it's sucky open source drivers.
I wonder if I just change all the .png s to .svg in smokeping...
arrg
so it seems like certain edits to Graphs.pm aren't applying
I change .png to .svg everywhere, but the page still renders with .png
but if I put some garbage at the top of the file, it correctly fails to load
it worked!
changing all png and PNG to svg and SVG in my Smokeping.pl works
it displays a bit big though...
adding width="$xs{''}" height="$ys{''} in the right place fixes the size...
example: http://kremvax.acfsys.net/smokeping.cgi?target=Remote.googledns
mercutio: how does that look on your high-dpi monitor?
the text looks a bit funny
i think the font is just crap
umm rrdtool needs a parameter to generate svg
oh it is svg
does it autodetect?
i should try on my 4k
erk
can this font be changed, it's really annoying
mercutio: you try the proprietary driver?
it looks fine
mnathani: nope
i really don't want to use binary video driver.
i suppose svg is probably better in general
mnathani: just read scrollback; webfaction.com
my pngs are smaller than your svg
by 40k vs 137k
i wonder what it's like if making the size even bigger
> < mercutio> does it autodetect?
           '--imgformat','SVG',
heh i can't read the text now
hazardous: looks really good so far. I am surprised I have never heard of them before
yea, can't figure out how to change the font
tried adding --font to the options, didn't work afaict
http://202.49.71.24:24/smokeping/smokeping.fcgi?displaymode=n;start=2014-11-20%2014:28;end=now;target=Curl.garlic
this to me looks kind of how i want it
That's what she said!!
now sure how it looks for other people
but yeah need to ramp up text size
That's what she said!!
i want to change fonts too, i have this annoying 0
it looks like there's a little eye poking out in the middle to the right slightly
yea
where does it get the fonts?
I'm guessing not X11...
i have no idea
ok so --font does work
at least for changing the size
but I don't know what other typefaces to give it besides monospace
what's eps?
enhanced post script
it's a vector format
do browsers support it?
I think chromium does
*encapsulated post script
i hate it how they double all these things up
well more than double
so there's more than one place to set font
only two?
That's what she said!!
that I could find
look for --imageformat
* --imgformat
I added
           '--font','DEFAULT:0:monospace',
mercutio: this is how it looks for me: http://i.imgur.com/YG5DTMX.png
i'm looking for --rigid
oh it is only double for that one
wow the text on the left looks terrible
that's on osx in chrome
ERROR: unknown option '--font DEFAULT:28:Times'
oh
"RRDtool uses Pango for its font handling"... cool
font rendering is better in safari but i don't really use safari ever
don't ever use safari*
damnit now it doesn't fit
oh nice Times worked
yeah it wokred
http://202.49.71.24:24/smokeping/smokeping.fcgi?target=Wider.gmail
but it all wraps !
and it's all blurry
not even blurry it's low res
blur probably from dithering?
maybe i should stop halving the size
that's probably causing it
can't the text scale?
http://202.49.71.24:24/smokeping/images/Wider/sip99_last_10800.svg
even that looks terrible
woah
it's uhh yeah
I think you're using a raster font..
that's what i meant
are you not?
let me check...
i should install the microsoft fonts?
with Times: http://kremvax.acfsys.net/smokeping/images/Remote/googledns_last_10800.svg
Helvetica works too
this is with Debian
I don't think I installed anything special..
oh yours is way better
this is on server rather than desktop
so probably has less fonts installed
same here
no X11 on that box
oh
i'm downloading the microsoft ones
your one looks fine
does everything support svg these days?
I think so
find /usr/ | grep -i times
turns up nothing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics#Native_browser_support
Scalable Vector Graphics :: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics with support for interactivity and animation. The SVG specification is an open standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since 1999.  SVG images and their behaviors are defined in XML text files. This means that they can be searched, indexed, scripted, and compressed. As XML files, SVG images can be created a
IE9 + suppors SVG
i don't care about ie i suppose :)
everything else has supported svg for a long time
ok
what version of windows did ie9 come in with?
released March 14, 2011
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/times.ttf
supported on Vista and above
gah it still looks terrible
haha
try sans serif?
or serif?
maybe i have to do something to register it?
o/~ I shot the serif ... o/~
RandalSchwartz: aarrrggghhhh
hahahaha
fontconfig?
I can't find Times or Helvetica anywhere...
fc-list | grep -i times
shows nothing
maybe it's using DejaVuSerif instead?
# fc-list | grep -i times | wc -l
52
 # fc-list | grep -i dejavuserif | wc -l
8
how do i tell what it's calling rrdgraph with hmm
DEFAULT:0:DejaVuSerif
appears to show the same output as DEFAULT:0:Times
so it's probably just using the DejaVu fonts
oh it's calling the module
it definitely changes something
http://202.49.71.24:24/smokeping/images/__navcache/141645903735734_1416459037_1416448200.svg
i'm only setting title
and only the title is ugly :)
yeah it is
lol
the rest looks ok though
the other stuff looks like it's still monospace (Courier or whatever)
yeah
oh consolas looks better
looks like the default smokeping typeface
consolas is my fav fixed width font
i use it in putty on windows
ah nice
http://202.49.71.24:24/smokeping/images/__navcache/141645913735819_1416459137_1416448320.svg
too big but looks clean
a bit big, but it looks more sane
http://202.49.71.24:24/smokeping/smokeping.fcgi?displaymode=n;start=2014-11-20%2014:53;end=now;target=meh.sydmeh
ok that's starting to look better
yeah, that looks good
little big still but much better all around
i want the text for overview a bit smaller though
some things broke :P
http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/counter.cgi/2.006010
i put it down a step,  now it looks too small
http://202.49.71.24:24/smokeping/images/smokeping.svg
rather
it still looks super big on my screen
oh?
(the 1024x768 one)
yeah, the last time you linked it the text at the bottom was bigger than the title
it wasn't overlapping like it was before though, just big
http://202.49.71.24:24/myscreen.png
i suppose it is kind of big
ah. looks nice on that screen
yeah
my macbook is pre-retina, so it's got a pretty low res display
i'm using cheap korean monitor
qnix
so it's really big for me but would look fine on my workstation display i'm sure (since it's the same res as yours)
1440p is actually quite a nice resolution
it works ok in winodws too
4k is screwy in windows
are the Windows icons vector or at least available in many sizes?
but yeah the cool thing about svg is that it can scale i suppose
what windows icons?
i don't think they've vector
like the taskbar ones, etc..
they look rpetty blocky
I can see it would be difficult to support 1024x768 and 4k at the same time
if you're just using a single scale of raster images
it would be cool if they had a system where you could change the dpi without changing the visible size
well 1280x720 and 2560x1440 is just x2
but smokeping isn't really good for 1024 across
as with 1024 you don't want to show a side bar
i should try on my phone
Android?
yeah
choosing the site on the left sucks
gah
it keeps crashing
my phone is 720p
crashing.. by trying to render SVG?
the image itself is fine
it's the other page it seems it screw up on
worked okay for me in chrome on android
when there's heaps of them
the overview page with heaps of them
even just going to the curl page is slow
it takes a long time to render the svg on the server?
gah it crashed again
the browser is the thing crashing?
chrome 39
the browser is crashing on android
chrome 39 is what i'm using on desktop too
svg on the server is fine speed wise
it's the phone that's slow
that server is in new zealand, so may be a bit slower for you guys
took 10 seconds or so to display the curl page on my phone
didn't crash or anything
curl page showed ok
it was other that crashed
oh, let me try that
then i clicked on the top curl one and it crashed again
my phone only has 1gb of ram
i dunno if that's why
but no other chrome windows open
it's taking a while to show m all the graphs - i have a few missing
and yeh 10 seconds kind of sucks
some are blank in other
i haven't cleaned up this server yet :)
i cleaned some of the others up abit
4 seconds on my macbook
10 on the phone
which specific page?
"other"
oh it does load a little slow
just got the "aw snap" on my phone for "other"
haha
m0unds: yeh that's what was happening to me
and it's what the completion jumped to first
it loaded most of them the first time, with 3 or so missing
then when i reloaded, i got "aw snap"
android is so stable
sometimes
haha
there's only one fcgiwrap socket
and it's i3 cpu
ah, gotcha
so it should have more than one
well if it's going to be slow
it does seem svg does generate slower than ping
png
or it's just bigger, so there is more transfer time?
my phone is swapping to flash on "other" :P
mind you it's also bigger file size
heh
hahaha
i wonder if it's just svg needs tuning in rrdtool
it does look nicer, but i want to change my step time down now :)
mercutio: do you have gzip compression enabled on your http?
that would probably help a lot
i tried on and off before
a diff day
so maybe it's off
png is binary, svg is xml
it was always on for /smokeping
it's smokeping.fcgi i was turnig it off/on
oh
ah, ok
then it's not working for some reason
cos i tried curl -O before
grr
it's huge
wow
it's 240k to 40k just running gzip on it
why it's nginx compressing it
oh i need to define it for that mime type i tink
done
50k rather than 40k
but so be it
and yeah mime type
see any performance difference?
no
curl --compressed -v -O   0.00s user 0.00s system 5% cpu 0.058 total
curl --compressed -v -O   0.00s user 0.00s system 17% cpu 0.019 total
loads in ~2 sec for me
that was non compressed first one
curl --compressed -v -O   0.00s user 0.00s system 2% cpu 0.133 total
oh
the 133 msec vs 58 msec
the 19 msec was cached
that would make sense
it still seems slow :/
yea
i have 1 minute expiry set
cos it updates every minute
i think it is a little faster
but yeah if i setup the cgi to run multiple at once it'd make it seem smoother i imagine
actually i don't think it'd make any difference
i think the cgi creates the images
it does
so the server would have to do it in parallel
i wonder if there's an easy way to do that ...
like async create graphs on various threads, wait for completion
probably not without changing lots of code
yeah i don't want to touch lots of code :)
the code looked scary
i'm thankful for getting this far!
yea. it's been going rather well
i wonder if bryce is around
he's running smokeping too
brycec: ^
I think RandalSchwartz is really big on perl..
oh you're bryce?
just calling him
oh right
i think the mobile layout could be improved too
actually i'm going to try on my tablet
err on my crap tablet
there is a mobile layout?
no
that's the problem
it's really annoying to select hosts on the left
"other" still ends up hanging on my phone
lol yea
yeah i think phones have to switch back to png :)
the smokeping web interface could really do with some improvements..
I wonder how hard it would be to rewrite that part in golang or something
yeah i was thinking of writing my own web frotn end
but it seems that the web front end is tied heavy into the backend
that's what it looks like
it was one of those things that was coming to me today
the other thing i want to do is quick snmp monitoring of network interfaces with ultra-quick updates
like show on a web page bandwidth per second or such
Cacti?
oh without graphs you mean?
cacti is per minute
and similar with ping too
something you can go to real time to measure performance
as well as doing it on command line
so it'd do the actual checks with backend
it would be cool to aggregate all that information (SNMP, SmokePing, etc...)
yeah
also, this: http://stats.sunet.se/stat-q/load-map/optosunet-core,,traffic,peak
super cool imo
chrome is spastic on my tablet
i use cacti for local stuff (snmp on my juniper srx and managed switch)
and it's not full screen
m0unds: you have a juniper srx?
yeah
I was thinking about getting one of those
what model?
i have a SRX210HE
what kind of forwarding performance do you get?
it's a nexus 7 maybe they tihnk i'm meant to be running android 5 or something
i haven't tested it
it's rated for 800mbit/sec imix iirc
not bad for the price tag
cpu utilization is a whopping 8% maxing out my 50mbit cable connection, haha
yup
great for learning junos too
has all the features of the big units as well as layer 3 switching and stuff
junos for all occasions
i graph cpu utilization, flow sessions, memory usage, cf storage, temperature and my WAN bits/sec
is there a good way to get the amount of data transferred over a given interval with Cacti?
(on a specific interface)
my "Total In" and "Total Out" numbers are always off..
ah
nexus 7 2012 is being very slow sohwing other in "browser"
mine's pretty close, it matches what i get when i query via ssh
with svg or png?
svg
hm, yea
oh it loaded finally
:P
haha
m0unds: the thing that disturbed me
it distorts the graphs heaps when scrolling too
looks a bit funky
is that the "Total In" and "Total Out" numbers for 1 week were larger than the numbers for 1 month
i bet it's a lot faster on my other tablet
I guess svg s are cpu-intensive to render
especially on mobile platforms..
yeah
nexus 7 has a crap cpu
...whaaaat?
actually i don't know if it's /that/ bad
that's weird
it's 2012 model
is the time right on the host and everything?
what do you mean?
catci doesn't care about time
it cares about uptime
I saw that when I first started using Cacti
I had a lot of data transferred in the last week or so
and none for the rest of the month
did you reboot the router?
don't think so..
That's what she said!!
did it wrap around?
wrap around?
for snmp counters
maybe, I'm not sure
just found another example
"Total In: 184.35 GB" for weekly
"Total In: 184.3 GB" for monthly
this one wasn't that bad
the volume of the other one was in MB
and the numbers were off by at least several MB
is this a new install?
new as of a long time ago
ah
Version 0.8.8b
(shipped with Debian)
was just curious if maybe it was averaging over a month w/only a months' worth of data or something goofy
i don't even know what version i'm on
probably it is doing something like that
it says in the console when you log in
in the top right
yeah, logging now
logging in
same version here, ubuntu 14.04
added any new graphs / data sources recently?
nope, deleted some lately (ipv6 tunnel)
haven't added any though
http://unixcube.org/who/acf/tmp/graph_image-0.png
http://unixcube.org/who/acf/tmp/graph_image-1.png
(had to censor these)
note the "Total In
*way* bigger on the weekly one
huh
weird
oh cool, spotify got rights to some of the boards of canada b-side stuff they lost a while back
it does seem weird
can you use sflow acf?
i was distracting getting rid of the stupid borders with smokeping
 well rrdtool
you have the silly borders too :)
so is it actually spiking like that?
yea, the spikes are real
which silly borders?
the gray
light gray and dark gray
there's a line on left hand side and top and bottom and right
and the background colour
of the text etc
i set all of them to FFFFFF
BACK, CANVAS, SHADEA, SHADEB
http://202.49.71.24:24/smokeping/smokeping.fcgi?target=Curl
so it shows like that now
i kind of want to take the rrdtool text out as well
oh those grey borders
and fix the logo
yea for that you just need to substitute png back in
what?
> and fix the logo
oh right yeh
the logo is a png
apparently you have to hack the source te romev the TOBI thingy
apparently the author is cool with people doing that
I wonder if you can reference it specifically with --font
and set the font size to zero
or the color to transparent
or something
i'm just going to hack the source
there's a new version that just came out
but hadn't been a new version in two years
doesn't seem to have changed mcuh though
hmm other works fine on my good tablet
and it seems fast too
any svg generation performance change with the new version per chance?
didn't look like it
was hoping to be haha
http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/CHANGES
but it may mean there's a new version again soon
i didn't realise rrdtool and smokeping were written by the same guy