[115703] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Sun Jul 5 13:06:01 2009
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 18:04:10 +0100
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A50C401.9070307@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In article <4A50C401.9070307@gmail.com>, JC Dill
<jcdill.lists@gmail.com> writes
>> Unfortunately, the number of students polling the website for news
>>means it can't cope with the traffic.
>Really? Um, wow. How big is this school? Is the webserver on an ISDN
>line?
It appears to be at a co-location centre in a distant city. I expect
it's provided as part of a package by one of the $5 domain hosting
companies. The bandwidth limiting is more likely a quota than a lack of
connectivity.
>> I don't believe they can justify paying more for better web hosting,
>>just to manage this once-a-year half hour event.
>This is a case where it makes *perfect* sense to offload emergency
>notifications to another, larger system such as twitter,
That's my current view, too.
> you can use posterus
It's going to be hard enough getting them to be comfortable with
Twitter.
--
Roland Perry
