Stats question...

[Justin]

Just wondering if the stats are acurate right now, with the lockdown and all.. I've had over half as much data transfer today (as of whatever time the stats were done) as all of yesterday. Yesterday was below average, too, so maybe some of yesterday's got into todays??

It's not important or anything, I'm just wondering if it's right, or if yesterday was a slow day and this morning all of a sudden I got real popular... or maybe it's some kind of wierd time warp thing?

http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif

Justin

[Deb]

The stats are current... sounds like you got popular this morning :P

Deb

[Terra]

I concurr and confirm that the stats are up-to-date and accurate...

The Internet lately has been up-and-down with many backbone problems (outside of us), and I know that this is having an effect everywhere with people surfing in general...

FQuest can only hope that the major backbone carriers get everything sorted out and start unclogging the overloaded/overtaxed NAP routing points...

As an aside: One of the largest NOC (Frontier GlobalCenter) is having it's share of disruptions and slowness... (yeah! - good news for us since this proves that it's the Internet in general...) http://www.aota.net/ubb/wink.gif

As a hosting company, I'm not sure how to communicate the problems of slowness in general since we are an endpoint... We lose business and satisfied customers due to it, problem is - they go elsewhere and find much the same problems... Unfortunately, the damage has already been done because they are very reluctant to go through another domain transfer/move... http://www.aota.net/ubb/frown.gif

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Terra
--speechless on connectivity--
FutureQuest

[DB]

My last WPP was connected to Frontier's backbone via fiber optic, and believe me, it wasn't all the advertising claimed it would be.

On a side note, I pinged ITC DeltaCom today and the round trip times were nearly half that of Sprintlink's. Not surprising since it only took ten hops instead of 25. If this is any indication of what's to come, I'm really looking forward to FQ's move.


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--Tom aka DiamondBack

[Justin]

Well, it must just be the weekend - I didn't realize that it was a Friday (like it matters to me anyway). The trend continues and was triple from the previous day. Wierd. I even checked out th refering URL's, and it's still divided about the same, so it's not like a new link from a high traffic site or anything.

I realize the scenario: it's like a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. No matter how fast the connection from server to backbone, the bottleneck still slows the whole system down. My modem is so slow that it really doesn't matter for me personally; then again, I surf from 'round 9PM till 6-7 AM anyway, so it's like the roads are nice and clear http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif

I guess I'm glad I'm getting more traffic, but I'm just wondering why the sudden boost (double my average for a Friday, and this morning looks like yesterday morning again). I haven't done anything really. Except the UBB, which isn't really popular yet. It's mostly downloads.


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Justin Nelson, SFE Inc.
http://www.vdj.net

[Terra]

Tom,

We are coordinating with our NOC for the new server install... Tentative for Tuesday or Wednesday...

This is going to be nothing short of painful, as it requires me to do the most dreaded sysAdmin task of IP Renumbering... I am working on ways to do this that will minimize any downtime/glitches as I have already started working on some DNS tricks that will help smooth out the bumps... Internic has already thrown a monkey wrench as they won't register my 'ns[234].FutureQuest.net' nameservers so that I can leapfrog on the primaries to tertiary servers... I'm still fighting with them on this one... Grrrrrrr.

FQuest is going to have a rough ride for the next 4 months until the OC-12 NOC comes online, and we are scrambling to meet all of our bandwidth needs... We are also entertaining moving another new server to a totally different NOC in the interim to help further spread out the load, and then cluster them together in the new NOC... Our 3rd quarter goal is to be riding on a Fract T-3 connection routed through OC-12 BGP routed sonet ring...

I am very confident that FQuest will once again lead the pack once our growing pains start to subside... Deb and I are already looking at ways of slowing down our business so that we don't go the way of 'Duncan YoYo' company... http://www.aota.net/ubb/biggrin.gif

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Andrew Gillespie
Systems Designer
FutureQuest.net