At this moment, Friday April 12 2:15 EDT 2013, global Internet traffic is well above normal and in some places more than 100% above normal. The trouble is, it isn’t normal traffic. The extra is attacks on web sites. DDOS stands for “distributed denial of service”. This is the most difficult threat to defend against […]
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Hard Drive Failure !
100% uptime is impossible. All we can do is get close. Last week 2 hard disks failed (simultaneously !) in node 2 of cluster 2. Besides being backed up in real time on a second cluster node, each node is running RAID-5 with hot swap drives. A single drive can fail and be replaced with […]