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ChanServ sets mode: +o heavysixer jlgaddis: probably gonna write an article over the weekend about my stats yesterday (72,567 total page views, normal average is ~2,000) and how well my vps/nginx held up. =)
so if nothing else maybe you'll get a new customer or two out of it. seems like you usually do whenever i write something about arp.
really fucking impressed w/ nginx. several months ago, i decided to try it out when apache shit itself at waaaaaay lower levels. ***: mhoran has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer)
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heavysixer has quit IRC (Quit: heavysixer) up_the_irons: jlgaddis: awesome, tnx!
yeah, nginx is pretty fast ***: tooth has joined #arpnetworks -: up_the_irons wanders off
tooth plays exiting type music mike-burns: Oop, you know what the music means. ***: tuv has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 255 seconds)
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treshoem has joined #arpnetworks pjs: jlgaddis is it static html or serving something behind nginx? jlgaddis: it's wordpress, so php
i use a caching plugin though
the first time $page is requested, it generates .html and .html.gz versions of the page. on subsequent requests for $page, it'll serve those up instead, as long as the cached version hasn't expired
also, all the static stuff (images, .css, .js, etc) is served up by amazon cloudfront pjs: gotcha jdoe: wp-supercache or whatever up_the_irons: don't ask for an android charger at LA RubyConf
i got weird looks
then i asked for USB Type B cable (the regular standard charging cable)
weird looks again -: up_the_irons is bored jdoe: I really, really need to find a new job. There are currently 5 people in a remote office working on the problem of "Is a machine powered on" for me :/ up_the_irons: LOL
jdoe: what do u do? -: mike-burns looks at up_the_irons weirdly. tooth: jdoe, hilarious.
cue "how many admins does it take to find a power switch" joke jdoe: up_the_irons: I'm a sysadmin. jlgaddis: up_the_irons: they're ruby devs, what do you expect besides blank stares? :P jdoe: up_the_irons: the remote office is in buttfuck nowhere, has no useful technical staff, and has poor infrastructure (flaky power/internet) -- so naturally I've been tasked with replacing their POTS system with voip.
kill me now. tooth: jdoe, I am sending you a package which you should open right away. do not pay any attention to the ticking. jdoe: problem solved.
root cause: several of my coworkers can't distinguish betwen a 1U that's on and a 1U that's off.
taking the rest of the day off with a bottle of JD. up_the_irons: jlgaddis: LOL
jdoe: hah
do i need to bring out my x serve pic again? jdoe: sure. What is it? up_the_irons: looking.. my netbook is slow... jdoe: my only (recent) server room wtf is http://falseprophet.ca/~jdoe/fusing.jpg ... not pictured: the door that opens (literally into) that rickety table, that it was just sitting there for a long time, etc. etc.
can't find the "THESE WALLS ARE ASBESTOS, LEAVE THEM ALONE signs, next to giant holes knocked in the walls" picture :/ up_the_irons: http://www.flickr.com/photos/51184165@N00/2174345059/in/photostream
omg
jdoe: what the F is that thing?? jdoe: dunno what the proper name for it is, I've always heard them called fusing cabinets.
I believe in that case it's linking local stuff to CA*net (internet2 if you prefer) up_the_irons: jdoe: crazy
I just opened up 3 slots for 4GB beefy VPS', thinking of running a special at $89, or even $79 each; only three left, first to get 'em gets 'em!
i wonder how much 8GB sticks of FB-DIMMs are... -: up_the_irons googles jdoe: not THAT bad. up_the_irons: if anyone cares, I have almost 900GB of FB-DIMMs in my whole cluster, all Corsair. Only 1 stick has failed. So, go Corsair! jdoe: haha. -: jdoe stabs the fuck out of whatever silicon mechanics ships up_the_irons: LOL jdoe: we've had a *lot* of that go bad. up_the_irons: jdoe: o'rly? jdoe: yeah. I think I've replaced at least one stick from every machine.
though it's not quite as bad as whatever's in the HP blade server. up_the_irons: oh wait, excuse me, not Corsair. Crucial!
i always get that mixed up jdoe: I do like crucial. up_the_irons: been quite reliable jdoe: I dunno, I've never had problems with desktop ram the way I do with whatever's in these boxes. up_the_irons: haha ***: webhostbudd has quit IRC (Quit: Leaving.)
webhostbudd has joined #arpnetworks jpalmer: in my entire life, I've ordered a shitton of ram for myself and customers. I've found "crucial" to be good RAM. and in that time, only 1 stick needed to be returned. and even better, their RMA process was painless. they overnighted the cross-shipment. up_the_irons: wow nice ***: heavysixer has joined #arpnetworks
ChanServ sets mode: +o heavysixer ninor: yea good point
quality ram matters
i wonder what arpnetworks buys ***: meingtsla has quit IRC (Quit: Leaving)
meingtsla has joined #arpnetworks jpalmer: ninor: up_the_irons just said they buy crucial
up_the_irons == garry == owner ninor: oh
i used to use corsair
was really nice. but that was years ago
silicon mechanics? i used to use their servers too
they're only a few miles from where my datacenter was
er sorry, they're up here in Seattle mhoran: Yeah I've had good luck with Crucial too.
Had Corsair as well. No issues.
I really haven't had any RAM issues. So I'm a bad sample. -: jpalmer just re-enabled IPv6 on his VPS. didn't configure it when I installed CentOS6. jdoe: centos :|
ninor: I have nothing against SM. I suspect our woes are environmental and/or bad luck. ninor: jdoe, oh i didn't even read anything. did you have a bad experience with some gear from there?
mhoran, would we even KNOW if we got bad ram?
i mean i wonder, how fragile is our data? speaking generally
there's bit rot on disk/disc, and in ram if shit goes sideways, how does that manifest? jpalmer: depends on the level of "bad" but you'd see data corruption, odd behaviors, lockups, and possibly even "random" reboots. jdoe: you very probably wouldn't see any of that since it's all ECC ram... ninor: i wonder if there's any way to put safety checks in operational data in the way zfs does for persisted data
yea but i mean, if you were to put checking for 'this' into software, what would that look like? jdoe: unless a stick dies, the only person who's likely to know is up_the_irons, and only because he's going to get log spam. jpalmer: jdoe: *if* it's ECC ram, correct. but not all ram is ECC ram :P jdoe: no, but basically everything in a server you spent more than $20 on is. ninor: im not even talking about arp
i'm speaking generally, in computing jpalmer: oh oh, in the context of ARP, and our vps's? No.. we'd never probably know. ninor: k i must be doing something wrong here. jdoe: right. jpalmer: ninor: *generally* if it's non-ECC, you'd likely see what I mentioned above. ninor: k well sorry jdoe: YOU SHOULD BE >:|
haha. ninor: k and what would a software layer do to manage that
and overlay it to build in resilience jdoe: nothing.
because you can't trust the software layer. ninor: *sigh* jdoe: since it's running out of ram :P ***: ninor has left jpalmer: software would have a hard time dealing with faulty RAM in any sane way. jdoe: lol
wasn't expecting that. -: jpalmer gets the impression that ninor was a little uptight.. jdoe: seems so. jpalmer: ahh well. /me goes back to editing the maps at waze.com ***: DiaboliK has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 272 seconds)
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