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We stuck with Linode after that, but the important parts now failover to Vultr.
We stuck with Linode after last Christmas too, but this new attack looks like the final straw. How have you found Vultr?
They seem to be the next biggest name in VPSes after Linode and DigitalOcean, with broadly similar price and quality.
I've always wondered, while in similar cases GCE/AWS can handle the traffic, is it not chargeable? So, while you will probably not get affected by the DDoS, aren't the costs going to cut your head off?
I've always wondered, while in similar cases GCE/AWS can handle the traffic, is it not chargeable? So, while you will probably not get affected by the DDoS, aren't the costs going to cut your head off?
Edit: I guess an attack that causes your infrastructure to auto-scale could get expensive REAL quick...
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If it's as easy and reliable as it is with Postgres (and I'd suspect it is), the answer is in my experience yes.
which tool are you using for master-master on postgres?
It can be installed as a plugin [1] and there are patched 9.4 packages available [2].
I set up a POC with databases in UK and US (east coast) last year. It was fairly straight forward and seemed to work well.
1: https://2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/bdr/ 2: http://bdr-project.org/docs/stable/index.html
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I've been wondering about this lately. Is it really feasible for a small (one man?) team to keep master-master MySQL replication over WAN running smoothly?
I'm a one man operation keeping a master-slave setup with a manual failover and it's been pretty smooth sailing once I got it setup. Don't know how much more complex master-master would be.
That's master/slave, but to get master/master, all you need to do is start a slave on the original master and point it at the current master position on the original slave (which should be static since it isn't yet accepting any queries directly). These posts may be helpful:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-... http://plusbryan.com/mysql-replication-without-downtime
Once it's running, as long as you're not running autoincrement queries or other things that can conflict on both servers at the same time, without taking appropriate precautions, it should chug away without any intervention.
If something does go wrong, you can often figure it out by looking at the slave status, fixing the inconsistency manually, skipping the bad query, and then starting the slave. If not though, you can always just re-synchronize from scratch. Or even better, run your databases off of an LVM volume, then take regular snapshots. (IE snapshot, make a tarball of the snapshot of the mysql directory, then remove the snapshot.) That will give you a consistent backup, even with the server running. On an SSD, the temporary added latency probably won't be noticed, especially if done off-peak. Then if anything goes wrong, you can restore from the snapshot, and it should catch back up to the master from the snapshot's position automatically (as long as your expire_logs_days setting in my.cnf is longer than the duration since the snapshot was taken).
I've always wondered, while in similar cases GCE/AWS can handle the traffic, is it not chargeable? So, while you will probably not get affected by the DDoS, aren't the costs going to cut your head off?
Isn't incoming data on AWS free? Or are you thinking of some kind of attack where they're using your infrastructure to amplify outgoing data? Edit: I guess an attack that causes your infrastructure to auto-scale could get expensive REAL quick...
3½ hours already. Distributed from and to many IP addresses. Seems like an attack on them rather than on specific users. :/
It's not hard to compare this to brush fires. They happen periodically, and only the big trees tend to survive them. Linode is getting pretty unlucky here, but I would imagine that all the small time (and even the medium sized) hosting provides are going to succumb eventually. Is the end game just going to be Google vs. Amazon?
This leads me to wonder: How much do other providers leave customers in the dark?