[BlueOnyx:12994] Re: NewLinQ

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

Hey Greg,
On 5/12/2013 5:39 PM, Greg Kuhnert wrote:
> Hi Chris & List...
> On 10/05/2013, at 10:37 PM, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet <cobaltfacts at virtbiz.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 5/10/2013 6:50 AM, Richard C. Barker Sr. wrote:
>>> Talked with Greg last night all is good no and working.
>>> Should be fixed for most people.
>>>
>>> There may be one auto resync for some people.
>>
>> I'm glad to hear this!
>>
>> I wonder if there is a method to be informed of these issues.  We
>> haven't heard much about it on the list except for reports that it was
>> not working.  Greg did post once about it IIRC.  There doesn't seem to
>> be any announcement on shop.blueonyx.it and I'm unaware of another
>> channel to receive updates...
>
> In the middle of fighting the botnet problem, I also had issues with blackouts to my home, water outage for mains water, and I also had a booked weekend away over the weekend going to a wine region. The problems had largely been fixed, and the call of the wineries combined with power outages meant no announcement. Thats why I called RC from my car to ask him to post something to the list on my behalf saying it was all good :)

Eeek! That does not sound like any fun at all.  Please let me know if 
there is any way we can assist.   With the wine country part, I mean.  LOL.

>> The website still loads somewhat slowly for me but I'm not sure if
>> that's a function of still fighting something off, or simply the
>> round-trip from USA to AU and back.
>
> The fighting is still happening in the background, but fairly minimal now. In terms of speed, Magento is a great well designed flexible shopping cart, but it is known for being slow on serving pages. I'm mid way through getting varnish on the box to help speed/performance. This much I can tell you. The box itself is in a well connected multi homed DC, with constant traffic of around 10 mb/s traffic base-load, with plenty more room to grow. No dropped packets, CPU is low. If you see poor speed, it will be either (a) Speed of the app running on the server (Magento), or (b) The path to AS9942 where the server is hosted.

Yes, I do understand how that goes.  Back when the DNS exploits were 
going down we had a few customers get hammered simultaneously and we 
sustained a roughly 500Mbps hammering for a while.  Eventually we were 
forced to just shut down DNS on the impacted customer networks rather 
than wait for them to fix it.

The upshot is that event spurred me into shopping mode and we are 
greatly increasing our peering commits.  There's something about overage 
charges that just irritate me, and our carriers apparently had the deal 
desks open.

Regarding the shop.blueonyx.it performance, yes I figured it was due to 
getting hammered with that traffic or the route.  I was certainly not 
meaning to infer that the resources behind the site were sub-par.

Glad to hear that things are under control but of course please do reach 
out if there's ever anything we can do for the project.

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