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Why is their load balancer not configured to take servers like that out of rotation?
It normally would, except the base IIS page is a proper 200 to all requests. The load balancer removes all servers having issues - from HAProxy's point of view things were dandy. As always, we are looking how to adjust our deployment process to prevent it from happening in the future.
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As Kyle says, we were helping our sister company Fog Creek keep their servers online (as well as other people in that facility like Squarespace) because we cared. Our traffic was not being served from that data center and in fact we shut down most of our servers during that to conserve generator fuel. Our traffic was flowing just fine from Oregon. A decision Kyle and I made the night before when concluding they would…
intetionally or not demeaning a good company It's sad that you can't handle a snarky comment (right or wrong) that was given in response to your own snarky comment. If you can't handle being poked and it pisses you off, don't poke others. Also, you seem particularly offended that your altruism is being maligned, when you're also complaining that the GP was unaware that the action was altruistic in the first place (??…
That's a really nice cabling job. I've inherited 2 DC's with just-awful-enough cabling that I'd be exceptionally happy to set up new racks again and migrate, just to sort the bloody cables out Sigh, don't think it's gonna happen. As a customer of Dell, it was interesting to see someone elses insight on managing a dell farm. So neat! I am mildly envious! ;)
Thanks! We honestly do this for us and my mild cabling OCD, but if we can help anyone by sharing the details then it's worth it.
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intetionally or not demeaning a good company It's sad that you can't handle a snarky comment (right or wrong) that was given in response to your own snarky comment. If you can't handle being poked and it pisses you off, don't poke others. Also, you seem particularly offended that your altruism is being maligned, when you're also complaining that the GP was unaware that the action was altruistic in the first place (??…
His comment wasn't snarky in the first place, it was pointing out that mistakes scale too. The response was totally inappropriate.