February 23, 2004
Site Going Down and Up
I've been having a strange problem with my bandwidth the last three days. Saturday was my second highest day of bandwidth ever. It exceeds previous highs by about an order of magnitude. Today was even worse. Despite the fact that traffic to my site remains around 300-400 visits per day, my bandwidth for Saturday is up by over 30 times. So if this site goes down again in the next few days it may not be back up till I can get to another hosting service.
The guys at my hosting service seem to think that nothing is amiss when 60% of my bandwidth is sucked up on 2 days. Considering that I increased my bandwidth recently and typically use about 40% of that over the course of a month this is just unacceptable.
From having worked with data sets for the last 10 years, when you see a data point that is suddenly 10 times the maximum of any historical value, and 30 times the value of similar observations (i.e., Saturdays), the technical term for this is: something is seriously fucking wrong.
So, my apologies if anybody was annoyed by this.
Posted by Steve at February 23, 2004 07:07 PM