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The Curious Incident of the Drop in the Night Time

Posted by Jacques Chester on Friday, August 24, 2007

Our uplink failed again tonight.

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Apparently this is exceedingly rare, but I did notice it took great care to fail when Ken and Nick were in a position to panic :)

I’ll be working on setting up a link failover mechanism to try and prevent these sort of outages in future, but the reason we use this one is simple: it’s free. The alternative is AARNet, which is fast, reliable and (forgive my technical terms here) STUPIDLY HORRIBLY EXPENSIVE, charging 18c per megabyte. That sounds cheap, except Club Troppo does 300Mb-500Mb of traffic every day.

Also, I continue to hate Wordpress. For some reason it had a sudden episode of amnesia and forgot the permalink settings. If you see anything else mysteriously breaking, please tell me so I can bludgeon it back into shape.

Edit: An updated chart shows it came and went a bit.



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7 Responses to “The Curious Incident of the Drop in the Night Time”

  1. Nicholas Gruen said:

    the fact that the blog has 2/3rds of its normal traffic at 5 am suggests that 2/3 of the traffic is spam and search bots.

    Posted on 24-Aug-07 at 7:23 am | Permalink
  2. James said:

    Nicholas: that graph is mostly traffic for the colleges at UWA, Troppo is only a small part of it.

    Posted on 24-Aug-07 at 10:50 am | Permalink
  3. James Farrell said:

    James

    I don’t know if you are one of the several Jameses who have commented on CT over the years, or whether you are a newcomer. In any case, if you are likely to stay around, I wonder if you would consider using your surname as well, or its initial, or some other distinguishing identifier.

    Posted on 24-Aug-07 at 11:12 am | Permalink
  4. Jacques Chester said:

    For reference, that’s James Andrewartha, who is our UCC guru.

    Posted on 24-Aug-07 at 11:14 am | Permalink
  5. James Farrell said:

    The penny’s dropped. You are the esteemed James Andrewartha. In technical threads like this, I guess people will guess from the context. Otherwise, the above applies.

    Posted on 24-Aug-07 at 11:16 am | Permalink
  6. Jacques Chester said:

    Turns out I was wrong, apparently AARNet has gotten much cheaper – 4c/Mb for incoming traffic only.

    Posted on 24-Aug-07 at 11:54 am | Permalink
  7. Tony T. said:

    Yeah, I noticed that, but I didn’t fret, I just figured, “Troppo’s down again. Whaddaya know.”

    Posted on 24-Aug-07 at 1:16 pm | Permalink