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Gimme powerrrr
There was a power failure at the NIKHEF data center tonight, one of the (if not THE) biggest AMSiX hubs. Ouch! All connectivity lost to the super data center my little server is in. So…server doing fine, data center doing fine, upstream data link dead. Damn. Back up inside two hours is pretty good though, [...]
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ict / computers, networking
Using EtherChannel for high availability on Cisco switches
07.21.08 | Permalink | 6 CommentsWhen building high availability networks or systems the three golden rules are: No single points of failure All failovers are automatic and swift Use non-proprietary technologies where possible When coupling server to the network I myself quite like using EtherChannel. EtherChannel allows multiple physical Ethernet links to combine into one logical channel, which allows the [...]
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ict / computers
How bots can kill a server
I’m running a pretty friendly little (LAMP) server here, hosting domains, email and web sites for friends and my own little side projects. Some sites are straight-up HTML and some are dynamic PHP sites, running WordPress or Joomla. Last week I noticed a major dip in the server’s performance, which got worse and worse nearing [...]
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