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Mun

Never Forget
Do any providers post uptime and stats of their nodes? Could you give me examples?

I am looking for something like :

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{"uptime":"3903931","total_memory":"7813516","free_memory":3001640,"disk_total":518137503744,"disk_free":189112705024,"load_average":7.64,"rx_bandwidth":"0","tx_bandwidth":"0"}
 
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Aldryic C'boas

Aldryic C'boas

The Pony
Let's add to the food for thought train:

900 second check intervals.  15 minutes.  Someone smart enough to pretend to be retarded in order to get pity/etc would have the public monitor check every 15 minutes, with a second monitor on a much shorter interval.  Second monitor would give alerts to downtime, and 15 minutes is plenty of time to either fix the problem or say sod it and just reboot the node - with time to spare before the next public monitor check.  BAM, "100% Uptime" achieved.
 
M

Mun

Never Forget
aldryic does frantec have an uptime.php on there servers or is that long gone with buyvmstatus.com :(
 
Francisco

Francisco

Company Lube
Verified Provider
Mun said:
aldryic does frantec have an uptime.php on there servers or is that long gone with buyvmstatus.com :(
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Buyvmstatus never had it and was based on pings from outside the network. It was common for nodes to get

nulled when people couldn't take down filtered IP's so it would throw reports off. We'd have users that would

monitor the node ping or go off buyvmstatus and then cry for SLA, even though their own pingdom monitors would

show no downtime for the entire month.

I considered getting pingdom going for all of our nodes but again, we run into the same issue with nullroutes.

One option would be to just hide the traceroute hop's for people and just write a statistics proxy page.

I've not put much thought into it as I've not sat down and worked out how I want statistics done in Stallion,

but they'll happen soon (after the Staminus integrations though).

At some point i'll write a proxy into stallion 2 so we can have a public page for the details.

I don't think you'll find many providers willing to feed you TX/RX, memory, cpu, etc.

Uptime shouldn't be a big deal.

Francisco

EDIT - Fixing my name since I franned up while typing the last 2 parts.
 
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Aldryic C'boas

Aldryic C'boas

The Pony
Mun said:
aldryic does frantec have an uptime.php on there servers or is that long gone with buyvmstatus.com :(
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BuyVMStatus was never actually a project of ours - a client ran it, and because it was a single-source and external based, there were all kinds of false positives.  Eventually just had to get the guy to take it down because I was getting a ridiculous number of invalid SLA claims.
 
M

Mun

Never Forget
Francisco said:
Buyvmstatus never had it and was based on pings from outside the network. It was common for nodes to get


nulled when people couldn't take down filtered IP's so it would throw reports off. We'd have users that would


monitor the node ping or go off buyvmstatus and then cry for SLA, even though their own pingdom monitors would


show no downtime for the entire month.


I considered getting pingdom going for all of our nodes but again, we run into the same issue with nullroutes.


One option would be to just hide the traceroute hop's for people and just write a statistics proxy page.


I've not put much thought into it as I've not sat down and worked out how I want statistics done in Stallion,


but they'll happen soon (after the Staminus integrations though).


At some point i'll write a proxy into stallion 2 so we can have a public page for the details.


I don't think you'll find many providers willing to feed you TX/RX, memory, cpu, etc.


Uptime shouldn't be a big deal.


Francisco


EDIT - Fixing my name since I franned up while typing the last 2 parts.
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Hmm, couldn't someone get a server inside buyvm's to locations and ping from there? Or would that not work. Not sure how your internal network structure works.
 
Francisco

Francisco

Company Lube
Verified Provider
Mun said:
Hmm, couldn't someone get a server inside buyvm's to locations and ping from there? Or would that not work. Not sure how your internal network structure works.
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Sure but that wasn't done.

With the old LV router nullroutes weren't enforced internally so you could still contact the nodes while it's nullrouted to the world (quagga being sloppy with network imports). With the brocade that isn't possible without being REALLY sloppy, though, so it won't work.

Francisco
 
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Mun

Never Forget
So, if I wanted to build a buyvmstatus page, which I know you would say no to I'd really need to buy two small servers, one for each location, and import that data to a separate off site server for better accuracy on nodes?

The reason I am asking is brocade comment made it sound like it is no longer possible.
 
Francisco

Francisco

Company Lube
Verified Provider
Mun said:
So, if I wanted to build a buyvmstatus page, which I know you would say no to I'd really need to buy two small servers, one for each location, and import that data to a separate off site server for better accuracy on nodes?

The reason I am asking is brocade comment made it sound like it is no longer possible.
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That still wouldn't work because IP's are nullrouted both internally and externally. :p

NJ's got a brocade on the way sometime soon, I'm just waiting to get it tested first.

Francisco
 
M

Mun

Never Forget
Francisco said:
That still wouldn't work because IP's are nullrouted both internally and externally. :p


NJ's got a brocade on the way sometime soon, I'm just waiting to get it tested first.


Francisco
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Well DAMN!

You are making it hard to monitor :p
 
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Mun

Never Forget
I was wanting to build a provider uptime list showing multiple providers and if there stuffs were up. Not sure that is really possible at this point.
 
DomainBop

DomainBop

Dormant VPSB Pathogen
I don't think you'll find many providers willing to feed you TX/RX, memory, cpu, etc.
Uptime shouldn't be a big deal.
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Providers who suffer from epenis node inflation syndrome and slabbilitis are unlikely to feed him uptime info on their nodes...just sayin'.
 
M

Mun

Never Forget
DomainBop said:
Providers who suffer from epenis node inflation syndrome and slabbilitis are unlikely to feed him uptime info on their nodes...just sayin'.
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I sorta figured that might happen, but I was trying to create a way so that people could see that there were issues or not with X provider. Simply, if you don't have anything to hide then it shouldn't be a problem.
 
KuJoe

KuJoe

Well-Known Member
Verified Provider
Mun said:
how does your app get the data, uptime.php? or does it SSH in and get the uptime command?
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I took the status.php file that comes with WHMCS and re-wrote it. I plan on expanding on it a lot more but it's not a huge priority compared to other things on my ToDo list.
 
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