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August 12, 2009

Internet slows down after Japan earthquake

Internet connectivity has slowed to a crawl today as undersea cable were affected by the recent earthquake in Japan.

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January 05, 2008

No Hacking Involved in DOJ and Enchanted Kingdom Websites

Been receiving emails from readers and fellow bloggers about the alleged hacking of 3 government agency websites, namely the DOJ, PNP-CIDG and ITECC. Investigations were being done by PLDT (or Infocom, the webhost), the DOJ and the management of Enchanted Kingdom. What would have seemed like a hack was actually a server glitch.

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October 16, 2006

PLDT myDSL DNS Problems

For several days now, we’ve been experiencing some erratic and widespread DNS problems with PLDT myDSL. I think Smart 3G/GPRS is also affected with it, although my Smart Bro is working fine.

We’ve also received numerous reports of the same — random sites not showing up or loading. The issue has been reported to PLDT Customer Support and though they’re not confirming the problems, all efforts to correct the problem failed. So, until now, PLDT hasn’t resolve the issue and we get all of the heat from hosting clients.

Anybody else experiencing similar problems with their DSL providers?

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July 12, 2006

Fix your ISP DNS Problems

It has been a constant problem not only for me but for a lot of people as well. There are times when I get reports that people cannot see any of my blogs or some other people’s sites I host. Yet, the server is up, there is no problem on the data center and the affected sites load fine from other locations or other ISPs.

Almost all local ISPs have this problem — poor DNS architecture, network congestion, or inadequate peering arrangements — PLDT (esp. Smart Wifi), Eastern Telecoms, Globe Quest (Innove), and GreenDot.

What I usually suggest to people is to reset their modem and reboot. If you’re on a corporate account, it’s also effective to call the ISP’s tech support and ask them to hook you to a different/better DNS server. I do get a lot of arguments with their tech guys thru email exchanges and even if they fixed the problem, they wouldn’t admit the issue originated from their end.

I end up using other tools to show the clients that their site is running fine — free proxy servers, remote ping/traceroute tools, anonymous web proxies.

Then, here comes OpenDNS:

OpenDNS Two things make OpenDNS faster than similar services. First, Open DNS runs a really big, smart cache, so every OpenDNS user benefits from the activities of the broader OpenDNS user base. Second, OpenDNS runs a high-performance network which is geographically distributed (see network map) and serviced by several redundant connections. OpenDNS responds to your query from the nearest location. That means we’re very fast (and extremely reliable, to boot).

Instead of using your default DNS settings, you can use OpenDNS instead. Been using it for a couple of days now and seemed to work fine and somewhat faster.

Here are instructions on how to use it with your PC (if you connect directly to the net) or configuring your routers (e.g. Linksys). Try it and see if you’re still having problems with not being able to view certain sites. Hopefully, it does solve the problem.

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May 28, 2006

PLDT rebrands Residential DSL Packages

Along with the upgrades that I just discovered, PLDT also rebranded their residential broadband packages:

PLDT myDSL

So, they did deliver on the promise they made earlier this year, though it took them 4 months to do so.

The new packages are as follows:

PLDT myDSL Xperience : 384 Kbps at Php 999/month

PLDT myDSL Xcite : 768 Kbps at Php 1,995/month

PLDT myDSL Xcel : 2 Mbps at Php 3,000/month

PLDT myDSL F2H : 5 Mbps at Php 5,000/month

The PLDT myDSL F2H may soon be available in areas of Ayala Alabang, Forbes Park, Essensa and Dasmarinas Village due to some fiber optic cables already in place.

This could be the start of a more affordable high-speed broadband in the Philippines (across all ISPs).

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July 08, 2005

Heavy traffic overloads Inq7.net

Starting early today, the website of Inq7.net has been suffering from heavy traffic and has resorted to a low-graphics version of their website. This is no surprise considering the recent issues plaguing the nation concerning the Gloriagate fiasco.

I did some quick research of my own on how Inq7.net is set up. So far, what is widely known is that their site is hosted by Bitstop (video streams are coming from Bitstop, no doubt.). I check their DNS servers and gave me 3 IPs, the primary DNS from a US (Mountain View, California but the IP is registered to Inq7.net) and the other two is Philippine based, owned by PLDT and Eastern Telecoms.

I have no idea how many servers are clustered to deliver content but I heard that they were not using any database servers for content delivery because of the risks it entails. With running a DB, when something crashes it or it chokes, content delivery is halted on all levels. By using flat files, they can still seperate the archives from the recent news and be able to serve them up quite efficiently. They’ll only have to worry about the webserver (they run Apache/1.3.31 with PHP/4.3.8) instead of both. These server/s host 5 sites — Inq7.net, Inq7.com, Inqseven.com, Inquirer.net and Inq7money.net.

With over 1 million unique visitors and 30 million web pages served a month, I am sure they have made some sort of server clustering or load balancing to be able to opmitize their site.

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