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March 31, 2014, 04:19:02 PM |
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Ok, I have been updating the twitter feed on what has happened and where we are at since all the problems or issues started. Twitter is better about updating, at least for me. More Feedback on that please.
We grew and the bandwidth was not sufficient. Rejects were accumulating as shares were arriving too late to be used and efficiency went downhill. (Update: after writing this, Comcast has found router config issues on their end, maybe the source of our problems the whole time) So, I called my ISP and doubled my bandwidth and all the issues we had earlier in the month came back. Then they sent out a tech on Sunday to work on it. Replaced a bunch of equipment, we are on 8th gateway router in 33 days (wtf?,) and then they left and I had NO connectivity. Then I went off site to set up everything in the cloud. Last night they claimed they fixed it, connectivity resumed, but I was in the middle of setting up replications, I was just going to keep it down until the new infrastructure was up. Then sleep came into the picture. Woke up and the tech called to have me test the old infrastructure (cause they don't want me to decrease my speed) and we are dealing with the same crap on again.
This sucks for everyone. However, won't for long. I am in the process of getting free of this BS and moving everything to the Digital Ocean's cloud of SSD based servers. Two stratum servers for the North America in NY and MN (basically Canada,) one for the EU in NL, and one for Asian Pacific miners in SG. Separate web server in NY as well.
This could have been completed sooner, if I didn't have 3 young children who I only see on the weekend. They were good sports about me working, however, I did have to make promises to get our servers fixed for next weekend.
Top it all off, just got all call from Comcast, and they think after 8 equipment fixes, they finally found the issue: my static IP's were set up wrong causing HUGE latency issues.... They just rebuilt them and I see much improved latency. But, the pool in only at a third of the overall load that we had on Saturday. Do I trust them, NFW! It does give me more time to set up redundancy on the cloud.
I can't believe it, could my favorite ISP :-P have finally fixed it? So far, so good! Come on back please, please, pretty please? Going to extend the block bonus until Wednesday and remember to adjust your donations... 2% fee + Donations... I was going to reset donations, however, I am at my day job and it is end of month fire drill!
Uptime Robot:
Current Status Up
Since 1 hrs, 0 mins (31-03-2014 10:15:30)
It is recorded on 31-03-2014 10:11:08 and the downtime lasted for 0 hrs, 4 mins.
1 Hour and we are mining away...
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