Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
Tonight, I figured out how to add the Resolved IP Addresses for a host to measurement data and store that information for further debugging. It was very simple – I was trying to find complex solutions to this issue.
Turns out the solution is built right into PERL: The Socket module.
My thought is that I will [...]
In: DNS| Internet| The Web| Web Performance
26 Mar 2009DNS hijacking is an occurrence that sends fear into the hearts of man and beast. It takes a perfectly harmless (yet critical) process and turns it into a weapon for chaos and mayhem.
This tool, however, does not simply reside in the hands of people looking to maliciously redirect traffic for purposes I can’t quite fathom [...]
In: GrabPERF| The Web| Web Performance| search
24 Mar 2009This afternoon, the two GrabPERF Agents at Technorati were switched back to using their local copies of caching BIND for resolving DNS entries.
Some folks at Microsoft who stopped by to look at their results on the Search Performance Index noticed that there were one or two outliers in the results from these locations. When I [...]
It’s not often as a Web performance consulatant and analyst that I find a book that is useful to so many clients. It’s much more rare to discover a book that can help most Web sites improve their response times and consistency in fewer than 140 pages.
Steve Souders’ High Performance Web Sites (O’Reilly, 2007 – [...]
In my presentations and consultations on Web performance, I emphasize the importance of a correctly configured DNS system with the phrase: “If people can’t resolve your hostname, your site is dead in the water”.
Yesterday, it appears that the large anti-virus and security firm Sophos discovered this lesson the hard way.
Of course hindsight is perfect, so [...]
In: Blogging| The Web| Web Performance| Work
3 Sep 2008Since I downloaded and started using Chrome yesterday, I have had to rediscover the world of online advertising. Using Firefox and Adblock Plus for nearly three years has shielded from their existence for the most part.
Stephen Noble, in a post on the Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals, seems to discover that Chrome will be [...]
In: GrabPERF
26 May 2006We are in the process of relocating the GrabPERF servers to new IP addresses. You may experience some weirdness as the DNS propagates, but this should die down in a couple of days.
If you do hit an issue, you can still reach the server at http://208.66.64.70/.
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In: Web Performance
11 Apr 2006Motorola made some site changes today.
The name servers they have listed at the TLD servers are:
ftpbox.mot.com. [129.188.136.101] [TTL=172800] [US]motgate.mot.com. [129.188.136.100] [TTL=172800] [US]
The Authoritative name servers that Motorola list are:
ftpbox.mot.com. [129.188.136.9] [TTL=59719]
motgate.mot.com. [129.188.136.100] [TTL=59719]
Ummm…DNS is a vital thing. Screw it up, and YOU TAKE YOURSELF OFF THE INTERNET!
If you can get to Motorola’s site…let me know.
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