Exploring the reality behind exclusionary deals with Microsoft and their subtle (yet severe) implications
We’re having server problem at the moment. Please do not link directly to large files like Ogg Theora-encoded videos from sites with a large readership. The traffic suddenly doubled or tripled and the server was already struggling as it was.
It’s a strange thing to complain about traffic, but if the site goes down, opportunity is lost and readership is 0 (usually occurring at the most crucial times when the Slashdot or Digg effect has everything suspended). █
Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. Learn more
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. Learn more
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. Learn more
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. Learn more
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. Learn more
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy. Learn more
doasisaynotasido said,
May 20, 2008 at 3:02 am
Why didn’t you upload the ogg to several free file hosting services? There are tons of them on the net, a few are:
Rapidshare
Diino / Diinoweb
Flyupload
Zshare
Megaupload
Filefactory
and so on…
Tracy Reed said,
May 20, 2008 at 3:14 am
I am willing to donate space/bandwidth from my Amazon S3 account (fastest and cheapest storage/bandwidth there is) to host your videos to prevent this sort of thing from occurring.
Roy Schestowitz said,
May 20, 2008 at 5:32 am
Thanks. I’m no longer so sure what’s causing the slowdown and instability (the Ogg was my first guess, but it’s still slow and I phoned the host just as I was seeing the site regaining stability). I thought about just putting large files on my box which is also a server, in which case it doesn’t take the whole site down along with those large files. Shane used to separate media (including images) from the standard HTML/PHP bits, but we recently had to change this (media.@ edu-nix has been unavailable).
Shane Coyle said,
May 20, 2008 at 11:28 am
my ping-o-meter never went off, and we’re way cool on B/W right now - 33% utilization at 66% of the month, so I dunno what happened. edu-nix.org will be getting a facelift over the next few weeks…
Roy Schestowitz said,
May 20, 2008 at 11:56 am
Ever since this morning’s incidents I’ve been getting this warning at times:
“Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 252825 bytes).” It comes from Google Sitemap. It seemed like the host was fiddling with something at some stage. Hopefully it gets resolved a little later.