The fact that passwords like "12345" and "password" are the most comment on websites like Gawker (and rockyou) is simply evidence that:
1. People don't care about their accounts on these systems. It's okay if somebody takes it over. 2. People don't want to use their good passwords on these systems, because they know that these companies have poor security passwords.
Although I'm one of the designers and have a financial interest in the company, I'll still say that if you are interested in network snooping, the most powerful tool out there is Sandstorm's NetIntercept. This is a full-content network interception device that captures all the traffic, decrypts the SSH and SSL connections (if we have the keys or if you are using our modified SSH server), and builds a huge databse of everything that's moved over the wire. It's frightening spook stuff.
Power and cooling have been issues for colo centers for at least 6 years. Google has engineers whose primary job is to figure out how much power and cooling they can get in a rack. And outside of colo centers, power and cooling have been issues for, well, forever.
The big issue that colo centers are not dealing with is security between customers --- one customer taking down another customer's equipment. It's much easier than you might imagine.
If it really is the case that there was construction going on at the colo center, then that would be in line with reports of other failures. Construction is one of the leading causes of downtime. Software upgrades is another one.
Okay, I figured out how to make this work on the Nitroba system. I just lowered the MAX number of servers from 150 (Apache's default) to 5.
Who made Apache's default 150? That's insane. Well, it might not be insane if Apaache was multi-threaded, but with a process for each child, it's insanity.
I've got a 1.1 Mbps SDSL link, but my primary server had a CPU problem and so now the web server is running off a 200Mhz K6 computer. It's plenty fine most of the time, but it can't handle the 5hits/sec that Slashdotters were sending at me. So I shut down the web server.
Try again in a few days.... If you want me to drop you an email when it is back up, drop a note to cube@nitroba.com
I may even have t-shirts with the burning cube on them!
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The fact that passwords like "12345" and "password" are the most comment on websites like Gawker (and rockyou) is simply evidence that:
1. People don't care about their accounts on these systems. It's okay if somebody takes it over.
2. People don't want to use their good passwords on these systems, because they know that these companies have poor security passwords.
Although I'm one of the designers and have a financial interest in the company, I'll still say that if you are interested in network snooping, the most powerful tool out there is Sandstorm's NetIntercept. This is a full-content network interception device that captures all the traffic, decrypts the SSH and SSL connections (if we have the keys or if you are using our modified SSH server), and builds a huge databse of everything that's moved over the wire. It's frightening spook stuff.
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Power and cooling have been issues for colo centers for at least 6 years. Google has engineers whose primary job is to figure out how much power and cooling they can get in a rack. And outside of colo centers, power and cooling have been issues for, well, forever.
The big issue that colo centers are not dealing with is security between customers --- one customer taking down another customer's equipment. It's much easier than you might imagine.
If it really is the case that there was construction going on at the colo center, then that would be in line with reports of other failures. Construction is one of the leading causes of downtime. Software upgrades is another one.
Hey, good luck with this whole thing. I hate it when it happens. Did you have both of your clusters in the same center?
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Okay, I figured out how to make this work on the Nitroba system. I just lowered the MAX number of servers from 150 (Apache's default) to 5.
Who made Apache's default 150? That's insane. Well, it might not be insane if Apaache was multi-threaded, but with a process for each child, it's insanity.
I've got a 1.1 Mbps SDSL link, but my primary server had a CPU problem and so now the web server is running off a 200Mhz K6 computer. It's plenty fine most of the time, but it can't handle the 5hits/sec that Slashdotters were sending at me. So I shut down the web server.
Try again in a few days.... If you want me to drop you an email when it is back up, drop a note to cube@nitroba.com
I may even have t-shirts with the burning cube on them!