Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
4 Apr 2007This morning, after months of increasing performance issues, and connectivity issues, I have retired the Boston Verizon measurement location. This location hosted 2 measurement agents.
The machines, hosted in my basement, are connected using Verizon FiOS, which has become increasingly flaky over the last couple of months. As well, the machines are 7 year old Pentium [...]
In: Life
22 Nov 2006So, we’re packing up the minivan and heading for the idyllic wilds of Maine for the Holiday weekend.
I will have connectivity, but frankly, there will be too much going on with five kids, four adults, a dog, and a flock of sheep (no sheep-human interaction! You people are sick!) to be online much.
In: GrabPERF| Technology
23 Jul 2006As everyone should know by now, GrabPERF has moved to some pretty swell co-lo digs provided by our friends at Technorati. This saved us a bunch of money, both in connectivity and in power.
Now, after nearly 6 months of inactivity, I have decided to sell the original GrabPERF servers. I have no more need for [...]
Tomorrow, we are moving off our Vancouver Island base and out into the British Columbia and Alberta hinterland for a few days. It’s highly unlikely that I will have ANY form of connectivity, mainly by choice.
BC and Alberta are highly wired, and even the small town where I grew up has a number of high-speed [...]
In: The Web| Web Performance
22 Feb 2006This morning, I was briefly waylaid by a colleague who wanted me to look at a traceroute for her. Her question: “Is it safe to say that alter.net is not Verizon?”
Answer: Nope.
Alter.net begat UU.net begat MCI/Worldcom begat MCI begat Verizon.
And so goes the world…
Technorati Tags: alternet, uunet, worldcom, mci, verizon, backbones, providers
In: Blogging| Canada| GrabIP| GrabPERF| Life| Linux: Server| RANTING| Web Performance| smp
16 Nov 2005In order to reduce personal costs for both connectivity and electricity, this Web server and all associated applications will no longer be available as of 14:00 EST (19:00 GMT) November 22, 2005.
I am deeply saddened to have to take this step, but the cost of operating them is becoming a burden to my family.
Thank you [...]
In: smp
7 Oct 2005UPDATE: Geek News Central sees it another way. They see Cogent as hitching a free ride and getting thrown off the bus finally. Either way, the bacbone providers are about to realize that they aren’t the ones with power anymore.
The lawsuits from this should be interesting, and are likely going to expose many of the [...]
So, I mentioned earlier that I have packet loss on the uplink from my Web server where GrabPERF and this blog are hosted. How do I know it’s packet loss and not some other issue?
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Notice the banding of measurements around 3 and 9 seconds? These values are the set TCP re-transmission timeouts for [...]
In: smp
6 Oct 2005I’m not sure where they are in the path, but there is a serious connectivity issue with the Newest Industry.
Going to re-boot the Web server and see if that helps.
Streaming v. Torrent – The true promise of on-demand
In: Commentary| Streaming
29 Aug 2008Steve Gillmor comments on TechCrunch today that Comcast’s caps on bandwidth may finally drive people from the land of torrents, and to the land of streaming. [here]
While I agree that the promise of streaming is long overdue, there is the one area that streaming still can’t fill: The mobile viewer. I don’t mean folks on [...]