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Performance Troubles for NYIIX

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:29:25 +0000

NYIIX , the east costs largest public peering exchange experienced some performance troubles today from 05:30 EST thru 16:00 EST. As of writing this post things seem to be back to normal.

My company Atlantic Metro saw a large influx of support requests relating to network performance to many ISPs that we peer with us on this peering exchange. Our engineers we able to quickly drain traffic and pass it over alternate routes. It seems we were not the only network to do this, as we got several notifications from GOOGLE who we also peer with, saying they were draining traffic from all peers until the issues were resolved.

As you can see from the traffic graphs something was clearly going wrong.

The following is a list of peering exchange members that were affected by todays outage.

Belgacom
AS6774

IIJ
AS2497

Tele2
AS1257

Microsoft 2nd
AS8075

Highwinds
AS12989

Abovenet
AS6461

C&W
AS1273
nLayer
AS4436

Terremark
AS23148

Swisscom
AS3303

Freedom
AS36692

TDS
AS4181

Eze Castle
AS14717

Megapath
AS4565

Verisign
AS36619

DataPipe
AS14492

Layer42
AS8121

Comstar
AS8359

Steadfast
AS32748

PCH
AS3856

RETN
AS9002

Telenor
AS2119

Microsoft
AS8075

Google
AS15169

WBS
AS19080

Voxel
AS29791

Cablevision
AS6128

BT networks
AS5400

Yahoo
AS10310

Time Warner
AS4323

Mzima
AS25973

Limelight
AS22822

Akamai
AS20940

Bharti
AS9498

Cox
AS22773

Internap
AS22212

Cavalier
AS16810

Bandcon
AS26769

UPC
AS6830

1&1
AS8560

IPnetzone
AS20077

Integra
AS7385

Reliance Globalcom
AS15412

Edgecast Networks
AS15133

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Peering Buzz

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:06:33 +0000

New Members on Public Exchange Points

NYIIX – www.nyiix.net

Edgecast Networks | AS 25133
MSK-IX | AS 31649

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Day 3 – Pumpkin is adjusting even more

admin — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:15:20 +0000

Pumpkin is the best little puppy. She loves the car, socializing and snoozing while watching tv.

PUMPKIN – working on her treat from Stephen Klenert on Vimeo.

Here she is having a treat.

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Day 2 with Rescue puppy – Pumpkin

admin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:41:36 +0000

Good Morning. As some of you may already know we’ve chosen a name.
I am so happy to welcome “Pumpkin” into my home and start showing her some love.

Morning of Day2 watching TV with me.

Don’t forget to check out all the dogs Curly Tail has up for Adoption: http://www.curlytailpugrescue.org/Adoption

Please donate anything you can so that we can keep Pumpkin healthy and happy.

Happy Saturday Everyone.

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Foster Parents for abused PUG

admin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:37:52 +0000

As some of you may know, @reneeclements and I recently signed up to be foster parents for Curly Tail Pug Rescue. Yesterday we got a call about an abused 5 month old fawn puppy that was going to be surrendered. They needed an immediate home for it, so we sprang into action.

The puppy is now in safe hands, and will be evaluated by our vet. There is a small potential that is has Femoral head ostectomy (FHO) and will need surgery.

More updates soon, in the mean time follow us on twitter;
@klenert
@reneeclemetns

and donate to Curly Tail Pug Resume to help all of our dog find a great home.

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RE-BLOG: About Data Center hosting vendor

admin — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:42:34 +0000

This is a re-blog from: http://olahav.typepad.com from OUTBRAIN

As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, from the early days of outbrain we chose not to base our system serving on a cloud solution and establish our own serving farm. I guess it is not because we did not know that cloud exist or was afraid to try cloud. I think it was because we were somehow funded and as graduates of big internet companies we thought that if we want this company be as big we have to start our infrastructure the way the big ones start – with our Owned and Operated data center.

Datacenter That doesn’t mean you own the facility but when you start it you buy your own hardware and host it with some Colocation facility vendor. There are lots of such vendors with different sizes and locations. Most of them gives very much the standard service of power, network, security, power redundancy,etc… but I want to talk here about 2 aspects that are most important and makes our Colocation supplier exceptional – Serviceability and Professionalism.

It’s been almost 2 years now that we are working with Atlantic Metro Communications (AMC) as our Colocation vendor. We have been hosted somewhere else before and forced to move in a short notice. We have also tried Amazon AWS for short period and got disappointed but now after long enough with AMC and handling almost 20X growth in our traffic I can recommend these guys to you all.

The reasons is the 2 factors that made them so exceptional and a good fit for company like outbrain:

* Best customer service – Like outbrain, for the AMC staff, customer satisfaction is a core value. Like an integral part in the DNA. Yes, they do have a proper ticketing system and a proper NOC like any other vendor, but you can also submit a ticket or send a mail and get an immediate reply, in the middle of the night from Steve Klenert, their CEO, taking care of the problem or answering one of your questions. You can see that with all AMC staff which is always eager to help and share from their experience and knowledge, even when the case is not in their direct responsibility. For a CTO of a company located across the ocean from his Datacenter, this is super helpful.

* Being professional- knowledge in the technology zone is always something you can argue about. I believe no one is perfect and knows it all. However, there is something that makes a professional staff… mania for solving problems. When it comes to handling internet WAN and LAN networks, it is such a huge domain that nearly every problem is different from the other. Experts with good understanding in this domain and enthusiasm for solving each problem will eventually nail it and solve it. That’s one of the things I see in AMC staff, these are guys I can count on for solving problems and will not give me answers like “That’s vendor X problem, nothing we can do about it”.

outbrain is growing fast and so does our infrastructure I’m pretty sure AMC will keep being on our help in the foreseeable future.

One word for you, when you want to choose a colocation vendor, contact @klenert and see what he has to offer, you’ll not regret it.

www.klenert.net
www.outbrain.com
www.atlanticmetro.net

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Best Chicken in New York City

admin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:33:16 +0000

Shortys’s32 in the heart of SOHO makes the best pan roasted chicken with chilled green bean salad I’ve ever had.

Follow them on twitter – @shortys32

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Twitter Updates for 2009-04-07

admin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:59:59 +0000

Last tweet replieing to people fuciking with twitter. Just go on where I was… #
Rosésoap:: Beslissing nieuwe EU regelgeving mbt #wijn, w.o. de inmiddels beruchte mixrosé, uitgesteld op verzoek WTO. http://bit.ly/qkO5P #

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Twitter Updates for 2009-04-06

admin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:59:59 +0000

Heb de promosite van halveflesjes.nl aangepast. Kost wat moeite, maar nu tweets ook live daarop te lezen. #
@Emthigious Whois Digsby? Just tweeting… Strange that you guys got my tweets without following me. #

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Twitter Updates for 2009-04-05

admin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:59:59 +0000

@damon link? #
Bezig met de http://halveflesjes.nl promowebsite. Overweeg om wat meer met twitter te doen daar… #
working on adding oauth support to grackle. so far, not too bad. #

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