Real power consumption is now ~-54,4% lower from July average

As older nodes can be finally shutdown, the real consumption difference is finally happening.Part of the reason is less cooling required during winter, but most of this is about the server upgrades.So we have already managed a whopping -54,4% reduction in power consumption, but our work is far from finished yet.Electricity prices are skyhigh right ... Read More »

10th Dec 2022
Short network issue on one of the TOR switches, affecting single rack

A bug was found on management of one of the routers.This caused a short downtime for one of the TOR switches.So in essence human error for not double checking, but then again, it's also a software issue when single interface going down on a LAG group brings down the whole LAG group.This failure mode will be removed with router upgrade, which is in ... Read More »

8th Dec 2022
Network maintenance scheduled for today

We have to do some network maintenance, this might include having to reboot our edge router.These can cause intermittent issues, or even whole network outage for a few minutes at a time. We will try to keep updated as the work continues, but the actual work takes priority over updates.We estimate the biggest work to take less than 30minutes which ... Read More »

5th Dec 2022
Current power usage metrics on per user and per TiB basis

It's been slower progress than before as we have reserved the capacity for black friday / cyberweek sales.Still, progress has been made.We expect to continue migrations soon, and that will make a huge difference on the W/User metric.Current figures, parenthesis from last announcement and from the first publication of these metrics:9.95W/user ... Read More »

27th Nov 2022
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