phirephly | 1 year ago | on: Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors
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phirephly | 1 year ago | on: Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors
I've made a point of calling out Digital Ocean in Linux mirroring talks as the gold standard for being a good citizen; run their own internal mirrors, which are FAST, making it a value add feature for them as well.
phirephly | 1 year ago | on: Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors
EPEL is a separate module from fedora-enchilada, but uses the same backend CDN infrastructure and most mirrors tend to carry both /fedora/ and /epel/, so they're not technically the same mirrors, but most mirrors tend to carry both.
phirephly | 2 years ago | on: Creating an autonomous system for fun and profit (2017)
The map is a latency heat map. I should probably replace it with a POP map
phirephly | 2 years ago | on: Creating an autonomous system for fun and profit (2017)
Sure. And switch ASICs hang off a CPU as a PCIe device, so the line between smartNICs and low end ASICs start to blur. The key is hardware acceleration of some sort.
phirephly | 2 years ago | on: Creating an autonomous system for fun and profit (2017)
256 next hops isn't enough. Typical ASICs support 20,000 to 160,000 next hops FECs.
Cisco tried caching routing decisions from non-line rate routing engines in the 90s, and the industry learned the lesson that it's a bad idea. Caching works until you overflow the cache for some reason, and then the box completely falls over as it thrashes.
phirephly | 2 years ago | on: Creating an autonomous system for fun and profit (2017)
The base power with any colo space is going to be minimal. You typically come back and spec out what additional power you want with the rack a la carte.
phirephly | 2 years ago | on: Creating an autonomous system for fun and profit (2017)
When you want line rate forwarding across several Tbps of front panel ports, you need the packet pipeline to be able to make all the routing decisions without involvement from the OS. 8Bpps just doesn't give you time to be able to walk any kind of data structure in memory.
Running full internet tables on a x86 server where you can only get a few Gbps up to maybe a few dozen Gbps is much easier.
phirephly | 2 years ago | on: Creating an autonomous system for fun and profit (2017)
I started an Internet Exchange Point adjacent to it, use it to host mirror.fcix.net, and got a second ASN to build the anycast ns-global.zone service
phirephly | 2 years ago | on: Creating an autonomous system for fun and profit (2017)
I only got a few years out of it. I'm running an Arista 7280SR-48C8 now.
The problem is that the million tcam entries are split between IPv4 and IPv6, so I really ran out of space.
phirephly | 2 years ago | on: Creating an autonomous system for fun and profit (2017)
This article is also essentially available as a podcast. https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal/kenneth-finnega...
phirephly | 3 years ago | on: 100G-LR4 optic cable teardown
A good old fashioned slash dotting on a self hosted server. Chill dude.
phirephly | 14 years ago | on: Is Stumbleupon referring more traffic than Facebook?
As far as I can tell, SU traffic is almost useless. I may get 1,000x as hits from SU, but I derive more value from some hole-in-the-wall site writing about me and sending 20 people.
phirephly | 14 years ago | on: Why can't Californians lie about where they live to Amazon?
So what? Do I incorporate in Nevada? I can't believe there's no way around this.
phirephly | 14 years ago | on: Amazon will end affiliate program in California if new law passes
Alright guys, so we all lost our Affiliate programs. What are the legal implications for just putting down an out-of-state friend's address in our Amazon account information?
phirephly | 14 years ago | on: Amazon will end affiliate program in California if new law passes
Because the state is not allowed to. The items are still being entirely taxed, people are just dishonest when they file their taxes.
phirephly | 14 years ago | on: CA Amazon Tax Signed Into Law
A few small sites, but most of my Amazon earnings actually just come from one post: http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/2011/06/so-you-want-to-b...
The rest of the site pulls in about $20/mo in Adsense, which is still pretty nice, but them added together is much more interesting.
phirephly | 14 years ago | on: CA Amazon Tax Signed Into Law
And if I have to start filing tax returns with every state and county my small business happens to do business with (~$1000 / year business), I'll probably shut that down entirely for not being worth the bother as well.
phirephly | 14 years ago | on: CA Amazon Tax Signed Into Law
Damn. There goes my $300-$400 a month passive income... And I already report my use-tax to begin with. Guess it's time to start calling up friends out-of-state for their mailing address.
phirephly | 14 years ago | on: Amazon will end affiliate program in California if new law passes
Then pursue the customers and force them to actually report their rightful use-tax when they file their taxes at the end of the year. Amazon isn't not collecting CA sales tax because they think it shouldn't be paid. They're not collecting the sales tax because they have no legal requirement to.
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Under normal conditions with well behaved clients, raw bandwidth for the large packages is essentially never the issue. Misbehaving clients, cache thrashing, IOPS are the sort of issues that cause pain for mirrors.