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Mkaos
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They say nothing would happen if you wanked that out. Hm... Think I should try it on mine??  |
I say go for it! And then come to me and I'll set you up with some real music 
And, while you're around, can you do me a favor? I got the hosting bill. It's crazy and you're going to laugh. They're trying to say we went through over 9TB of bandwidth last month. I was just about to call them, but it'd be nice to be confident going in. Can you peek at the logs or whatever you'd peek at to let me know what I need to know? Thanks!
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Themagician
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No thanks on the music. I'd need to first wear the obligatory tie-dye shirt which, I am proud to say, I own none. :p
And going through 9GB of bandwidth is not a huge issue really. We do that at times.
And careful with your techie speak. GB and TB are completely different. 
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Mkaos
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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| No thanks on the music. I'd need to first wear the obligatory tie-dye shirt which, I am proud to say, I own none. :p |
Hey now, let's not move into fashion. Why do I imagine you have 10 t-shirts and three pairs of jeans. All black. And, for the record, I don't own a tie dye shirt. Ok, not true. But I don't wear them anymore. I just hold on to them for the sentimental value.
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And careful with your techie speak. GB and TB are completely different. |
Yes, I know. NINE TERABYTES. That's what they're trying to say, anyway. Could you poke around and let me know what we're really looking at? Please?
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Themagician
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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Um....what the deuce?!?!?
I'll definately look into that. That is for sure not by design.
Hm...
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Mkaos
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks! You're the best 
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PoeticExplosion
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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9 Terabytes? That's about a quarter of the library of congress. 
Probably a typo or something. |
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Konamouse
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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9TB? Is someone using this site to host a lot of very large files or programs? Some hidden pages?
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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9TB is just not right, man. Like Poetic said, its gotta be a typo (granted, one mother of a typo... I hope someone gets a good finger-rapping with a stiff ruler. Or maybe this is going to be another one of those times where we have to debate what 1/100th of a cent is )
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Biff
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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9 TB, huh?
"They've traced the Craigslist postings...
and they're coming from inside the server room!!!!!" |
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Occultus
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 5:58 am Post subject: |
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A month is just under 3 million seconds so that's a constant 3 Megabytes per second (24 Mb/s) transfer, 24/7, over the entire month.
Anything else on the server other than the website?
Whenever I've logged in there's usually only a couple of people looking at the forums (including guests). So your web traffic should be pretty low. |
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Lovek
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 10:26 am Post subject: |
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| ...we went through over 9TB of bandwidth last month. |
My bad. Sorry. 
On the plus side, that's one sturdy server you've got there to handle that load.
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Themagician
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Well this is definately weird. I have started to look at the server and while the hardware are not extremely tasked, we are definately going through a lot of network traffic. I have set up a sniffer and will generate logs soon.
Perhaps that will give us an idea of what is going on. I also run a port scan but I couldn't see anything unusual through my bloodshot eyes.
So...yeah....ick! Ideas folks?
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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| So...yeah....ick! Ideas folks? |
Any rogue processes? FTP servers that shouldn't be there? I'm guessing the entire box is dedicated to the outpost? When I used to run Linux I had a tool, I can't remember what it was called, now, that would monitor/log all your system calls and throwed red flags every time a process did something it wasn't "supposed" to do. It's prolly a little late for that, tho, but it would definately be useful in trying to pin down exactly what's going on. The sniffer is probably your best bet. I'd be curious to see the results. Currently, I'm employed as a Java Devloper, but in my past life as an Intern, I did security-related research for the DoE. =)
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Mkaos
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Well this is definately weird. I have started to look at the server and while the hardware are not extremely tasked, we are definately going through a lot of network traffic. I have set up a sniffer and will generate logs soon. |
A lot? As in a bit more than normal or, yeah, this outrageous bill is outrageously correct? Should I call and tell them they're off their rocker if they expect me to believe that we actually went through 9TB last month? Please tell me I'm not going to have to suck it up and pay this bill - it's going to put a big dent in our budget 
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Themagician wrote: |
| Well this is definately weird. I have started to look at the server and while the hardware are not extremely tasked, we are definately going through a lot of network traffic. I have set up a sniffer and will generate logs soon. |
A lot? As in a bit more than normal or, yeah, this outrageous bill is outrageously correct? Should I call and tell them they're off their rocker if they expect me to believe that we actually went through 9TB last month? Please tell me I'm not going to have to suck it up and pay this bill - it's going to put a big dent in our budget |
Just calmly ask them if that 9TB was the 9TB of sentryoutpost they lost in 2006.
If so, tell them you've been looking all over for that.
If it isn't the 9TB they lost, ask them where it is, and say you'll get back to them when they find it. 
If they find all your old files/archives/etc, and it's short by 8.5TB, tell them you can wait for them to find the rest.  |
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