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  #3232858 21-May-2024 07:18
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freitasm: @ragnor hosting Geekzone on Azure or AWS would cost at least 15 times more.

 

Just out of idle curiosity, which component is the expensive part? Is it traffic, compute, etc.? 




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  #3232861 21-May-2024 07:36
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Coincidentally there was a flurry of articles like the one below recently:

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3712861/why-companies-are-leaving-the-cloud.html

Mostly overstated because cloud continues to grow and if colocation is a solution then those guys probably did not need the cloud benefits in the first place. The interesting thing none mentioned is logically, colocation services can grow.

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  #3232879 21-May-2024 08:51
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gzt: Coincidentally there was a flurry of articles like the one below recently:

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3712861/why-companies-are-leaving-the-cloud.html

 

The number of companies with over-spec cloud deployments is mind-boggling. Can't throw a stick without hitting a project which spins up a hundreds or thousands of dollars (monthly) of compute resources, for a workload which would quite satisfactorily run on a Raspberry Pi. 




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  #3232881 21-May-2024 08:53
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cddt:

 

freitasm: @ragnor hosting Geekzone on Azure or AWS would cost at least 15 times more.

 

 

 

Just out of idle curiosity, which component is the expensive part? Is it traffic, compute, etc.? 

 



Both. And storage. It is easy if you are a business that needs to scale horizontally and with each increase you're generating more revenue.




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  #3232910 21-May-2024 10:42
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So who else misread the date and wondered why it was still up?

 

Just me then? *Hangs head in shame*

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  #3232912 21-May-2024 11:00
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Behodar:

 

So who else misread the date and wondered why it was still up?

 

Just me then? *Hangs head in shame*

 

 

oh, yeah, me too. 




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  #3233517 22-May-2024 15:13
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This maintenance window was approved so @cisconz will do this job for us. 

 

For anyone interested, this is to replace the battery in a RAID controller.

 

 




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  #3235747 28-May-2024 10:00
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A reminder this is happening in approximately 30 minutes.

 

Status will be updated here: https://status.geekzone.co.nz 




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  #3236747 28-May-2024 10:41
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Thanks to @cisconz, this is now completed

 




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  #3237751 28-May-2024 10:56
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Had meeting and didn't even notice it was down for that time. Well done.




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  #3237759 28-May-2024 11:12
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Are pages now failing to load, links not working, etc. for other people or is it just the firewall at my work being problematic again? (Although I've never seen it act quite like this before). Seems to be fine on my phone over 4G.

 

I can give further details if needed but it might just be me.

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  #3237760 28-May-2024 11:13
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Behodar:

Are pages now failing to load, links not working, etc. for other people or is it just the firewall at my work being problematic again? (Although I've never seen it act quite like this before). Seems to be fine on my phone over 4G.


I can give further details if needed but it might just be me.



I'd suspect your work.




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  #3237762 28-May-2024 11:15
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Crisis averted: fully quit and reloaded the browser and it's behaving itself now. Must've just been a weird glitch.

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  #3237772 28-May-2024 11:43
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Pages loading for me fine

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  #3239798 28-May-2024 13:30
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Just had a few mins of not working, status tracker shows outage as well.




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