Hi guys There was an unexplained amount of traffic last night, where we were hit with a lot of simultaneous connections, and about 60 megabits of traffic. During this spike in traffic / and spike in server load the memcache client started timing out, and haproxy crashed. Obviously someone was DOSing us. I’ll need to… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: October 2008
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Work It, Make It, Do It, Makes Us Admittedly it’s been a long time since my last post, but a lot has been happening in the background. We’ve recruited another team member, Eric, whom we will introduce on the blog soon. Roland and George have been plowing along on HablaPlus – and I just pushed… Read more »
A new log file Handler.
If I was really slick, I would have written a log file handler that was smart enough to rotate logs when the computer was running out of space. But I think I’ll let logrotate take care of that. I have posted our new log file handler, which can recover if files disappear during operation (i.e…. Read more »