Crazy last weekend
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gizaWell, I guess I should write up last weekend, since it was pretty wild.
It started off pretty well. On Friday evening, I got a call from Kasi Frost. It turned out that she was going to be in the area on business, so we got together in the evening. I was introduced to vodka sours and The Yakety Day After. I introduced her to The Angry Nintendo Nerd.
On Saturday, I decided to upgrade the Drupal instance that was serving up my website, the Save Ardmore website, and the PA-Furry website (currently under renovation, so I won't link to it quite yet). Well, that turned out to be interesting, because my web host uses a reverse proxy to cache webpages, and Drupal 4.7 didn't play too nicely with that. In addition to seeing all sorts of stale (cached) pages, I was also seeing pages from the wrong site displayed!
After a day of fighting with Drupal, I finally split the websites onto three different servers and that put an end to the proxy issues. But then, as things started to stabilize, my web host began experiencing some routing problems on Tuesday. It wasn't their fault, or even their ISP's fault. It was UUNet/AlterNet who managed to bork things up on their backbone. Performing a traceroute to my web provider would show my packets only made it about 80% of the way before getting dropped. When they did a traceroute to my gateway, their packets only made it about halfway before getting dropped by a UUNet router in Chicago. That persisted for about 2 days until UUNet fixed things.
One good thing came out of this, though. Due to the intermittent availability, the number of broken search engines trying to load mangled URLs from my site has slowed down considerably, thus lowing my traffic and my costs.
And this new weekend is almost upon us. Let's see if I can do just a little better than last. ;-)
It started off pretty well. On Friday evening, I got a call from Kasi Frost. It turned out that she was going to be in the area on business, so we got together in the evening. I was introduced to vodka sours and The Yakety Day After. I introduced her to The Angry Nintendo Nerd.
On Saturday, I decided to upgrade the Drupal instance that was serving up my website, the Save Ardmore website, and the PA-Furry website (currently under renovation, so I won't link to it quite yet). Well, that turned out to be interesting, because my web host uses a reverse proxy to cache webpages, and Drupal 4.7 didn't play too nicely with that. In addition to seeing all sorts of stale (cached) pages, I was also seeing pages from the wrong site displayed!
After a day of fighting with Drupal, I finally split the websites onto three different servers and that put an end to the proxy issues. But then, as things started to stabilize, my web host began experiencing some routing problems on Tuesday. It wasn't their fault, or even their ISP's fault. It was UUNet/AlterNet who managed to bork things up on their backbone. Performing a traceroute to my web provider would show my packets only made it about 80% of the way before getting dropped. When they did a traceroute to my gateway, their packets only made it about halfway before getting dropped by a UUNet router in Chicago. That persisted for about 2 days until UUNet fixed things.
One good thing came out of this, though. Due to the intermittent availability, the number of broken search engines trying to load mangled URLs from my site has slowed down considerably, thus lowing my traffic and my costs.
And this new weekend is almost upon us. Let's see if I can do just a little better than last. ;-)
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Date: 2007-02-09 11:31 pm (UTC)We were having some here (Road Runner cable service in Columbus, Ohio) as well. I could not log on to AIM (traceroute to login.oscar.aol.com would not go through) for about half the week. Around Wednesday there were a couple of service outages and when things finally started working consistently again I was able to log in to AIM again.
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Date: 2007-02-10 05:01 am (UTC)The Internet in Mexico is a much more random animal than it is elsewhere. There is no backbone, instead everybody taps into wherever they want so, for instance, to send an ICQ (back then it was still popular ;P) message to a local friend the message would typically go Mexico city -> Mexico city -> Guadalajara -> Baja California -> California -> Houston -> Atlanta -> Some other US City I dont rememebr anymore -> Monterrey -> Mexico city -> Mexico city.
That's not a message through the server, a direct message. Basically that was the traceroute.
So, of course, things got messed up somewhere along the line all the time.
That's the reason it was *always* faster to pick a US mirror to download anything than a Mexican one. I tried it time and again. not a small speed difference either.