Comments on: Uptime is vital

By: Chris Brogan...

Chris Brogan... — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:24:56 +0000

There is a MySQL accellerator and a few optimizers that try to buffer and protect against those issues. The names are eluding me, but it’s easy enough to sniff around for.

But my real question is this: how critical is uptime to a blog? Two days is harsh. But what is your acceptable cut-off? I work in the telecommunications space. 14 minutes is an eternity (and penalty heaven). But what’s the net loss, except for a bad user experience? Does that outweigh the technology expenses?

Sure, if it’s just some code-cleanup and some optimizing, that’s one thing. But if it falls out a bit, what’s the overall effect?

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:31:03 +0000

Steve,

You sure it wasn’t your connection?

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 08:02:02 +0000

oops – and talking of uptime DIC is not responding right now – no pings no nuthin’ for the last 10 mins :(

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 07:45:37 +0000

MySQL: my experience over the last decade of using mysql? Never use persistent connections to MySQL and you will probably never see that error message.

By: DAN

DAN — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:03:11 +0000

Yesterday I saw MTV.com down, with a basic apache error message, for quite some time. I thought that’s costing them money…

Zach was talking about his ev1 server, which I also have but not the extensive knowledge to fix indepth server problems, that’s why I love dreamhost. (More space than ev1 and cheaper for the deal I got awhile back)

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:25:18 +0000

Let me guess: You’re hosting (or a client is hosting) with iPowerWeb? I had this same problem with a clients hosting over there.

By: Jamsi

Jamsi — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:55:33 +0000

Yep I agree. Human nor machine is perfect. (who can tell I just finished watching the Matrix ..)

However mysql connections limit is certainly something one can plan for.

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:52:44 +0000

While this is certainly good advice one can’t possibly guarantee 24/7 uptime. Computers are man-made and therefore it’s inevitable they’ll sometimes fail. Then there’s routers and gateways inbetween which may also fail at times.

By: Zach Inglis

Zach Inglis — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:55:12 +0000

Very much so.

I had a dedicated server over at ev1 but unfortunatly someone used my SMTP port to relay spam from. I personally hadn’t the knowledge to fix it and the support staff said it was out of their scope, so my blog had to go down for 2 and a half days