Web Blog of Greg Mathews

Yea, today I received a Christmas card from Google, oh well was hoping for a pressie but maybe next year.

Earlier in the year I wrote about how I had to Block Opera Mini

At the time they never responded to me about my decission apart from their initial response say that they would investigate it. Now 6 months on and as many of you know I changed servers for the site, but in my haste to get everything up and running smoothly I forgot to block the Opera Mini IP range on the new servers, and guess what, yep they started hammering the site again with over 1000 hits an hour.

This proves to me that they have not fixed the problem and probably didn’t even investigate it, as far as I can see they are stealling my site content, they are probably monetizing it with ads although I can not confirm that so I have yet again been forced to block the Opera Mini IP range. It’s so sad that these people have to use such archaic methods that could bring a web site to its knees.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERY ONE

OK it’s been heck of a week.

It was the general concesus that using an iSCSi was not suitable for my needs so that has gone out the window and I have reverted to using NFS accross the network.

I moved  the scripts over to the new server after making a few minor changes to it and tested the scripts worked fine before I updated the DNS which all appeared to go great.

I had decided not to move all the html files thinking these would be recreated by the script. I was right, but as there were 700,000 html files  this took so much resources that the site became unaccessable, what a disaster.

I switched the dns back and spent the next few hours transferring the files accross. Read the rest of this entry »

I have been talking to a System Admin company and they are giving the impression that using GSF and iSCSi may not be the best solution for what I want, they seem to be saying that NFS should not be causing a bottleneck if set up correctly.

Will see what they say today

Well I have decided to upgrade some of my servers, I have ordered 3 new servers from a different host. Why changing host, well I am not exactly I will still have some servers here in the UK with my existing host but the host I have just ordered from are in the USA and offering a better spec server for the same money and I don’t have to order a private network as their servers are connected to a private network by default.

For those a bit more tech savy, I have also ordered a iSCSi drive and intend to use that with GFS rather than the NFS system I am using at the moment which I hope will reduce any bottlenecks that are currently occuring.

I will update as I progress.