mikiem

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by mikiem 3y ago
Initially, it seemed like a DoS to us too, but it was not. This was confirmed by upstream provider metrics. No major traffic spikes. It was a combination of non-malicious things. More info later, some of us need sleep.
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by mikiem 3y ago
DNS was actually the first alert we received, but alas was not the cause.
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by mikiem 4y ago
I'm a little surprised at the response here. I feel like there is an element of "Body Doubling" here... a strategy used by those with ADD/ADHD. I recently looked in to this when curious about my own observation that I wo
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by mikiem 4y ago
This morning, I googled for issues with the firmware and the model of SSD, I got nothing. But now I am searching for "40000 hours SSD" and a million relevant results. Of course, why would I search for 40000 hours. This thread is m
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by mikiem 4y ago
They were in two mirrors, each mirror in a different server. Each server in different racks in the same row. The servers were on different power circuits from different panels.
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by mikiem 4y ago
These were made by SanDisk (SanDisk Optimus Lightning II) and the number of hours is between 39,984 and 40,032... I can't be precise because they are dead and I am going off of when the hardware configurations were entered in to our da
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by mikiem 4y ago
You are never going to guess how long the HN SSDs were in the servers... never ever... OK... I'll tell you: 4.5years. I am not even kidding.
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by mikiem 4y ago
It was part of a mirror of identical SSDs on an LSI MegaRAID RAID card. We see occasional "spectacular" drive failures that take the machine down with a single disk failure. Usually it's just a reboot to come back up, and a
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by mikiem 4y ago
People guess the origin of our name often. Maybe this will give you even more of a chuckle. I was not aware of the name of this computer when I named the company. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ultimate_Computer
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by mikiem 4y ago
It was an SSD. A 1.6TB SAS3 SSD. (M5 CEO here)
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by mikiem 6y ago
Thank you for sharing your positive experience! We can power cycle power outlets remotely and can connect a console (ip kvm)... and we are staffed 24x7.... in case you need another server. Thanks again!
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by mikiem 6y ago
Oh hi! Thank you for the kind words. I cant tell who you are by your name here, but if you've been with us since 2011, we have certainly spoken. Are you using our second San Diego data center for your failover location? If you and I ar
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by mikiem 6y ago
Unrelated issues, but I did hear from our other clients that O365 was having issues at the same time as our network outage affected HN and many others.
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by mikiem 6y ago
Founder and CEO of M5 Hosting here. We did have a network outage today that affected Hacker News. As with any outage, we will do an RCA and we will learn and improve as a result. I'm a big fan of HN and YC in general, we host of other
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by mikiem 6y ago
How can I use this to archive sites/pages that require logging in to see?
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by mikiem 6y ago
M5 Hosting | San Diego, California | Sr. Systems Admin / DevOps | Work remote most of the time, but must be able to go to the data centers in San Diego regularly. Remote data centers in EU and AP. We provide public cloud, dedicated ser
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by mikiem 6y ago
Cogent and Cox are also having problems, but we are seeing a lot more successful traffic on Cogent than CenturyLink. It appears that CL is also not withdrawing stale routes. It seems CLs issues are causing issues on/with everything con
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by mikiem 6y ago
M5 Hosting here, where this site is hosted. We just shut down 2 sessions with Level3/CenturyLink because the sessions were flapping and we were not getting complete full route table from either session. There are definitely other issue
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by mikiem 7y ago
Founder/CEO of M5 Hosting here. M5 Computer Security pivoted to M5 Hosting in the early 2000s. We do host the servers that this site is on. I have been through YC Startup School recently. We host a few Fortune 500s and many startups. C
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by mikiem 9y ago
Actually, we just bought bandwidth for a roll out at Equinix in Munich. $0.50 for Cogent (when added to several other 1G commit on 10G ports in our account. A single 1G commit on a single 10G port would cost more) and we were quoted $1.43 f
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by mikiem 9y ago
How could I forget electricity: A/B power for a pair of Cisco ASR 9006 routers costs us over $1,000/mo!
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by mikiem 9y ago
As a provider of IaaS Cloud and of dedicated servers and colo, I hear this argument all the time. No one ever seems to include the Network Engineers, monitoring systems, the routers (better have more than 1!), the switches (distribution and
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by mikiem 9y ago
ssh and a web browser. I know that's two.
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by mikiem 9y ago
I am seeing a lot of comments about the need for stable power. It seems logical, but it’s not an absolute need. I managed a data center win San Diego at the time of the California electrical power crisis [1] near the end of the Dot Com day
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by mikiem 9y ago
But these "few sniffs" amount to 8 Petabytes of data, according to the article.
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by mikiem 10y ago
Snapshots are not backups, although many people use them as backups and believe they are good backups. Snapshots are snapshots. Only backups are backups.
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by mikiem 10y ago
You can Google the phone number in the letter and also look up the number for the field office they are from, call the office and ask for the agent. Yes, it may take time. But you don't get many NSLs, so you do it. You do it to prote
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by mikiem 10y ago
Interesting. As a service provider (hosting) we have received many "court orders" that are very similar to these NSLs... but they were not NSLs. Now that I see these NSLs, I am not that freaked out by them. I'm not sure of al
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by mikiem 10y ago
It's a common and well known business model. We have Web hosting companies, game servers, mobile apps, cloud-managed gizmos, SaaS platforms, etc... all are common well known business models. Do you know any more about them because of t
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by mikiem 10y ago
I should add that some sites (especially ones counting on ad revenue, or that don't want "scalpers") may consider bots hitting them as abusive and will either contact us or just block specific IPs. At that point we know what

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