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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. M…

DNS was actually the first alert we received, but alas was not the cause.

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 cu…

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, wh…

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.

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 whe…

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.

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. Usuall…

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.wiki…

It was an SSD. A 1.6TB SAS3 SSD. (M5 CEO here)

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…

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 …

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.

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…

How can I use this to archive sites/pages that require logging in to see?

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 cente…

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 see…

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 tabl…

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 re…

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…

How could I forget electricity: A/B power for a pair of Cisco ASR 9006 routers costs us over $1,000/mo!

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 router…

ssh and a web browser. I know that's two.

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 …

But these "few sniffs" amount to 8 Petabytes of data, according to the article.