On Jul 6, 2009, at 11:08 AM, ne...@enginehosting.com wrote:
On Monday, July 6, 2009 10:00am, Michael Holstein michael.holst...@csuohio.edu
said:
However it doesn't scale
Anyone who's seen the fail whale might argue the same about
Twitter.
Cheers,
Michael Holstein
Cleveland State
On Jul 7, 2009, at 4:03 PM, Marc Manthey wrote:
However it doesn't scale
Anyone who's seen the fail whale might argue the same about
Twitter.
Just to add something to this, twitter has been slow all afternoon
and now I am getting the fail whale
I just thought I would point out in
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Mikael Abrahamssonswm...@swm.pp.se wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
In a real crisis, redundancy rules.
... and simplicity.
It's always fun when those outages pages rely on sql backends etc, so
they're capable of tens or hundreds of users,
On Jul 7, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
In a real crisis, redundancy rules.
... and simplicity.
It's always fun when those outages pages rely on sql backends etc,
so they're capable of tens or hundreds of users, so they look fine
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
http://www.coralcdn.org/
Nice, looks very much like the thing I was advocating. Hard part is
getting authorities et al interested in such an ad hoc solution.
Preferrably they could do both and then we can see which one works best in
an emergency
However it doesn't scale
Anyone who's seen the fail whale might argue the same about Twitter.
Cheers,
Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University
On Monday, July 6, 2009 10:00am, Michael Holstein
michael.holst...@csuohio.edu said:
However it doesn't scale
Anyone who's seen the fail whale might argue the same about Twitter.
Cheers,
Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University
With a past week of highly visible outages in the
In article 4a4fc4f3.2010...@rollernet.us, Seth Mattinen
se...@rollernet.us writes
Twitter will attract the what's cool right now demographic.
But has it gone from cool to useful (for this kind of application),
in a way that Facebook and other such sites haven't?
I remember an employer of
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009, Roland Perry wrote:
Unfortunately, the number of students polling the website for news means
it can't cope with the traffic. I don't believe they can justify paying
more for better web hosting, just to manage this once-a-year half hour
event.
Is Twitter making a
In article 4a4fd58b.2000...@gmail.com, JC Dill
jcdill.li...@gmail.com writes
Even easier, you make an email address on your system that is an alias
to posterous. So they send to p...@schoolsystem.edu which .forwards
out to posterous, which posts to the school blog, myspace, facebook,
On Jul 5, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
Is Twitter making a profit or not?
The other consideration is scalability and reliability. Twitter has
been subject to numerous feature disablements due to capacity issues,
as well as complete outages. Furthermore, Twitter does not appear
On Jul 5, 2009, at 6:12 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009, Roland Perry wrote:
Unfortunately, the number of students polling the website for news
means
it can't cope with the traffic. I don't believe they can justify
paying
more for better web hosting, just to manage this
Is Twitter making a profit or not?
The other consideration is scalability and reliability. Twitter has
been subject to numerous feature disablements due to capacity
issues, as well as complete outages. Furthermore, Twitter does not
appear to be deployed in a distributed,
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Roland Perry wrote:
There's the temptation by some of companies to leverage the latest
technology to appear cool and in tune with customers, but by far and
large, when something goes down customers either do no nothing, wait, or
call in. I think the best use of everyone's
school
websties/services that will die
out in the next year or so.
-Original Message-
From: Steve Pirk [mailto:or...@pirk.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 6:43 AM
To: Roland Perry
Cc: na...@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Roland
On Jul 5, 2009, at 6:23 AM, Roland Perry wrote:
In article 4a4fd58b.2000...@gmail.com, JC Dill jcdill.li...@gmail.com
writes
Even easier, you make an email address on your system that is an
alias to posterous. So they send to p...@schoolsystem.edu
which .forwards out to posterous, which
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:01:43AM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
[snow day notifications]
Unfortunately, the number of students polling the website for news means
it can't cope with the traffic. I don't believe they can justify paying
more for better web hosting, just to manage this
Aleksandr Milewski wrote:
On 7/4/09 7:50 AM, Roland Perry wrote:
What I'm trying to anticipate is the objection to *also* posting to
Twitter, which might be raised on the grounds that it's too
unofficial, or unsupported or something like that.
Anecdotal, of course, but I found twitter to
In article 0d357934-85de-4935-8f58-02f5fcc1d...@americafree.tv,
Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv writes
I would say this partially would depend on how and what you want to
communicate. If there is just going to be
one pronouncement per day (the school is up / down / delayed), then
In article 20090705101237.gc14...@skywalker.creative.net.au, Adrian
Chadd adr...@creative.net.au writes
Is Twitter making a profit or not?
This discussion about (ab)using a publicly available message system which
isn't currently being charged for would makes me worried^Wamused as hell.
I've
In article 9589b202-ed92-4c49-98ee-eebaa43c8...@americafree.tv,
Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv writes
as I said before, this is a service that goes down. I would not rely
on it as the only way to communicate.
I'd be proposing it as an additional way to communicate[1], but people
could
In article pine.lnx.4.64.0907050334130.23...@mail.pirk.com, Steve Pirk
or...@pirk.com writes
It's a High School. They don't have a support desk (or more than
handful of phone lines [1]). Even the local radio station can't cope
with one call per school asking them to broadcast the news that
In article 20090705113248.gp1...@hezmatt.org, Matthew Palmer
mpal...@hezmatt.org writes
There are web hosting providers whose 18c/year hosting plans can't handle a
few thousand requests to a static page over a period of maybe 15 minutes
without falling over? The mind boggles.
Apparently so.
In article 4a50a3c9.3080...@airwire.ie, Martin List-Petersen
mar...@airwire.ie writes
for those type of notifications, it's perfect, also because it's not
part of your own infrastructure.
From an operational resilience point of view, that's a very important
feature.
--
Roland Perry
Roland Perry wrote:
In article 4a50a3c9.3080...@airwire.ie, Martin List-Petersen
mar...@airwire.ie writes
for those type of notifications, it's perfect, also because it's not
part of your own infrastructure.
From an operational resilience point of view, that's a very important
feature.
In article 4a50acb7.6070...@airwire.ie, Martin List-Petersen
mar...@airwire.ie writes
Calling it a lame web 2.0 is pretty much off, when it's actually used
for something sensible.
I seem to be trying to find the middle ground between members of the
public who think The Internet isn't
Roland Perry wrote:
In article 4a50acb7.6070...@airwire.ie, Martin List-Petersen
mar...@airwire.ie writes
Calling it a lame web 2.0 is pretty much off, when it's actually used
for something sensible.
I seem to be trying to find the middle ground between members of the
public who think The
Roland Perry wrote:
There's the temptation by some of companies to leverage the latest
technology to appear cool and in tune with customers, but by far and
large, when something goes down customers either do no nothing, wait, or
call in. I think the best use of everyone's time is to make sure
to begin with. Diminishing returns?)
- S
-Original Message-
From: JC Dill jcdill.li...@gmail.com
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 08:18
Cc: na...@merit.edu na...@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
Roland Perry wrote:
There's the temptation by some of companies
Dill jcdill.li...@gmail.com
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 08:18
Cc: na...@merit.edu na...@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
Roland Perry wrote:
There's the temptation by some of companies to leverage the latest
technology to appear cool and in tune with customers
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Roland Perry li...@internetpolicyagency.com
wrote:
In article 4a50acb7.6070...@airwire.ie, Martin List-Petersen
mar...@airwire.ie writes
Calling it a lame web 2.0 is pretty much off, when it's actually used
for something sensible.
I seem to be trying to
How do I configure my router for that?
Router(config)# no ML jibber-jabber
^
% Invalid input detected at 'twitter' marker.
-j
--
Jamie Rishaw // .com.a...@j - reverse it. ish.
[Impressive C-level Title Here], arpa / arpa labs
Paying a lot more to host the website with higher burst capacity
during an emergency, isn't an option.
The only other idea I've had is to sign all the customers up to receive
an SMS via some sort of broadcast service (the news will fit easily in
one SMS).
If the event is suitably
In article 200907041222.naa23...@sunf10.rd.bbc.co.uk, Brandon
Butterworth bran...@rd.bbc.co.uk writes
Paying a lot more to host the website with higher burst capacity
during an emergency, isn't an option.
The only other idea I've had is to sign all the customers up to receive
an SMS via some
On Jul 4, 2009, at 6:17 AM, Roland Perry wrote:
In article 786ba8c0-b534-40ff-9126-1e33bd11c...@americafree.tv,
Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv writes
That's a great idea, use some lame Web 2.0 trend to communicate with
actual real life customers. /sarcasm
I would assume they figured
Roland Perry wrote:
In article 786ba8c0-b534-40ff-9126-1e33bd11c...@americafree.tv,
Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv writes
That's a great idea, use some lame Web 2.0 trend to communicate with
actual real life customers. /sarcasm
I would assume they figured it was better than just
In article f832a12a-0aed-4a01-955d-e24dca618...@americafree.tv,
Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv writes
That's a great idea, use some lame Web 2.0 trend to communicate with
actual real life customers. /sarcasm
I would assume they figured it was better than just remaining silent.
I'm
Personally, I find it difficult to take Twitter seriously. It seems
like more of a kids toy than a business tool. Something like a
blogspot account would make a lot more sense.
Jeff
On 7/4/09, Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv wrote:
On Jul 4, 2009, at 6:17 AM, Roland Perry wrote:
In
In article 4a4f5e3c.5040...@gmail.com, JC Dill
jcdill.li...@gmail.com writes
That's a great idea, use some lame Web 2.0 trend to communicate with
actual real life customers. /sarcasm
I would assume they figured it was better than just remaining silent.
I'm about to recommend to an
Le samedi 04 juillet 2009 à 10:47 -0400, Jeffrey Lyon a écrit :
Personally, I find it difficult to take Twitter seriously. It seems
like more of a kids toy than a business tool. Something like a
blogspot account would make a lot more sense.
Yes.
What about (continue to) use old email (inc
Roland Perry wrote:
What I'm trying to anticipate is the objection to *also* posting to
Twitter, which might be raised on the grounds that it's too
unofficial, or unsupported or something like that.
Anyone who makes that argument is just showing how little they know
about Twitter. It would
In article
16720fe00907040747k67ca1206kb871420deb5e8...@mail.gmail.com, Jeffrey
Lyon jeffrey.l...@blacklotus.net writes
Personally, I find it difficult to take Twitter seriously. It seems
like more of a kids toy than a business tool. Something like a
blogspot account would make a lot more
In article 4a4f6ef5.9030...@gmail.com, JC Dill
jcdill.li...@gmail.com writes
What I'm trying to anticipate is the objection to *also* posting to
Twitter, which might be raised on the grounds that it's too
unofficial, or unsupported or something like that.
Anyone who makes that argument is
On 04/07/09 17:07, Roland Perry wrote:
That's the kind of marketing-led response I was hoping to hear.
But the UK National Rail system now uses Tweets to tell customers about
disruptions on the trains, and several major UK government departments
and news organisations use it for announcements
Le samedi 04 juillet 2009 à 16:58 +0200, Michael Hallgren a écrit :
Le samedi 04 juillet 2009 à 10:47 -0400, Jeffrey Lyon a écrit :
Personally, I find it difficult to take Twitter seriously. It seems
like more of a kids toy than a business tool. Something like a
blogspot account would make
Roland Perry wrote:
In article
16720fe00907040747k67ca1206kb871420deb5e8...@mail.gmail.com, Jeffrey
Lyon jeffrey.l...@blacklotus.net writes
Personally, I find it difficult to take Twitter seriously. It seems
like more of a kids toy than a business tool. Something like a
blogspot account
-Original Message-
From: Roland Perry [mailto:li...@internetpolicyagency.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 10:38 AM
To: na...@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
In article h2ns2s$kc...@ger.gmane.org, Chris Hills c...@chaz6.com
writes
That's the kind
Frank Bulk wrote:
When the local power companies uses twitter, then maybe I'll consider using
twitter for our customers.
There's the temptation by some of companies to leverage the latest
technology to appear cool and in tune with customers, but by far and
large, when something goes down
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 03:59:48PM -0500, Frank Bulk wrote:
When the local power companies uses twitter, then maybe I'll consider using
twitter for our customers.
During the ice storm we had here last winter, the local power
company did just that. psnh ice storm twitter etc are all
good search
Why aren't you all out getting drunk like me?? ;)
- Original Message -
From: Mark E. Mallett m...@mv.mv.com
To: Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com
Cc: na...@merit.edu na...@merit.edu
Sent: Sat Jul 04 13:12:14 2009
Subject: Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 03
For DR issues (among many others, of course) think of Twitter as a paging
system of global proportions: not a lot to be said, but if you get the
message right its broadcast and amplification capabilities are unmatched.
--
***Stefan
http://twitter.com/netfortius
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 5:19 PM,
mentioned that yourself a few posts ago. =)
Frank
-Original Message-
From: JC Dill [mailto:jcdill.li...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 5:20 PM
Cc: na...@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
Roland Perry wrote:
In article 4a4f6ef5.9030...@gmail.com, JC Dill
-Original Message-
From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnk...@iname.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 4:51 PM
To: 'JC Dill'
Cc: na...@merit.edu
Subject: RE: Using twitter as an outage notification
So does twitter address the mass public,
[TLB:]
The whole point of Twitter is that it works
- Original Message -
From: Frank Bulk
Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 10:59 AM
Subject: RE: Using twitter as an outage notification
When the local power companies uses twitter, then maybe I'll consider using
twitter for our customers.
There's the temptation by some of companies
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