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The 250 GB Challenge and How to Measure

31.Aug.08 | 6 Comments

The GigaOm site has an interesting article up about the upcoming 250GB/month cap from Comcast. I must say, as a Comcast internet user,  that the whole thing makes me sad. But I also don’t think we ever get close to that cap so, to be honest, I’m not sure if I care or not.
Should I?
The [...]

Bandwidth Monitoring and …

17.Jul.07 | 4 Comments

When it comes to network management, I’ve always been more of a “let’s buy some switches and pull some cable” kind of guy. Actually managing, extending and supporting an existing network was never all that interesting to me.
Now that it’s party of my job, however, I suddenly care a lot more than I used [...]

WhatsUp Deferred Alerts

13.Jun.07 | 2 Comments

Today’s Challenge
I use WhatsUp Gold at work to monitor our development and production environments. It works well for us and seems reasonably priced full featured (although I wouldn’t be adverse to looking into a comparable open source solution if anyone has suggestions). I’ve been using it for over 3 years now and hit [...]

Pager Quest

27.Apr.07 | Leave a Comment

Want to feel old-school and ancient? Go try to buy a pager.
I monitor our production operations, and quite a bit of dev too, with WhatsUp monitoring software. I love it, it does everything I need now and stuff I look forward to figuring out some day.
I used to do all the notification messages [...]

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