Month: October 2005

The Gomez Network Agent is offline due to a power failure at the hosting facility. I will bring this Agent back online on Monday morning.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

Woke up to 3 inches of water in my basement. Where the GrabPERF Web and database servers are hosted.
Oh, and this blog and my personal Web site.
Given the amount of rain we have had lately, this is the only water we have had.
Ugh!

I am thinking about setting up MySQL replication for the GrabPERF database so that the massive number of inserts done does not interfere with the performance of the Web interface.
Does anyone out there have any advice/comments/concerns/experiences on doing this for an active database with large amounts of data in it?

The Web server has been upgraded to Apache 2.0.55.
Let me know if you see any unusual weirdness.

CLICK IMAGE

’nuff said.
UPDATE: From Technorati

10.11.2005
TypePad Service
The TypePad application is currently experiencing performance degradation. You may be experiencing application errors due to the issue with published blog content noted below. We are aware of the issue and are working hard to correct it as soon as possible; we apologize for the inconvenience.
UPDATE (1:10 pm) We have been working on correcting this and you should see the improvement currently.
At present, the stats page continues to be disabled. We expect that stats will be restored today.
Posted by Six Apart Ops at 11:15 AM
10.11.2005
TypePad Blogs
UPDATE (1:10 PM). Service has been restored to published weblogs shortly after the last update and is continuing solid.
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UPDATE (12:31 PM). We are currently restoring service to published weblogs. While we restore service, you may experience degraded performance. We appreciate and thank you for your patience.
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UPDATE (12:02 PM). One of the main servers has gone off line. We are in the process of restarting it.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and we will post an update here as soon as possible.
Posted by Six Apart Ops at 11:16 AM

Technorati: typepad, grabperf
IceRocket: typepad, grabperf

I am seeing an awful lot of doubled posts on Rojo today. Anyone know what’s up?

I guess bandwidth doesn’t matter to Yahoo. They don’t use gzip/HTTP compression any more.
Ok, not completely true. It’s there on the Portal Page. But nowhere else.
<sigh>
I give up.

Ok, I love inflammatory headlines. But they go with this story: In Bombing At OU Stadium There Are More Questions Than Answers
Travis Smith was the first to clue me in that this happened. [here]
I wonder this one is being swept under the rug? If it was a suicide, it’s sad; but is there more to this?

Ok, the GrabPERF Search Index has a new member: Yahoo Blogsearch.
We’ll see how it works out in term of performance; Scoble has some initial comments on quality of results. [here]

The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
NOTES:

• Level3/Cogent Peering Dispute affected all results this week

Week of October 04-10, 2005

TEST                                 RESULT  SUCCESS  ATTEMPTS
--------------------------------  ---------  -------  --------
PubSub - Search                   0.4032768    99.86      6644
Google - Search                   0.5196460   100.00      6735
Yahoo - Search                    0.6926705   100.00      6694
MSN - Search                      0.7543688   100.00      6722
Google Blogsearch (ATOM)- Search  0.8480318    99.82      6725
Google Blogsearch - Search        0.8880010    99.84      6731
eBay - Search                     0.9723281   100.00      6736
Newsgator - Search                0.9935382    99.61      6685
BestBuy.com - Search              1.2988528    99.94      6721
Findory - Search                  1.3819290    99.93      6693
Technorati - Search               1.4609834    99.88      6671
Amazon - Search                   1.6579611    98.94      1799
BENCHMARK RESULTS                 1.7649221    99.56    108774
Feedster - Search                 2.4226014    99.73      6671
IceRocket - Search                2.6644861    99.51      6698
Blogdigger - Search               2.7916678    99.14      6378
BlogLines - Search                3.5648172    96.84      6735
Blogpulse - Search                6.6344053    98.96      6736

These results are based on data gathered from two remote measurement locations in North America. Each location takes a measurement approximately once every five minutes.
The measurements are for the base HTML document only. No images or referenced files are included.

Technorati: GrabPERF, Web Performance, Web Performance Measurement, Web Performance Monitoring, search index, SEO
IceRocket: GrabPERF, Web Performance, Web Performance Measurement, Web Performance Monitoring, search index, SEO