The sadness of the ST3000DM001

Backblaze has published an blog posting looking back to the ST3000DM001 drive failure rates. These are the same drives we used solely initially as well.Their failure data matches almost exactly ours, except we purchased our drives in Q1-Q4 of 2013 instead of 2012.Seagate has since updated this drive model, the part number has changed, along with ... Read More »

11th Feb 2016
Espoo DC switch upgrade in progress

Espoo DC edge switch upgrade is completed.

The main work has been completed now, but with increased port count we are going to connect more servers directly to edge; This will cause intermittent outages lasting upto 1 minute on few of the Espoo nodes.

30th Jan 2016
DNS Resolver updates

We have identified that in one of the DCs we use the nameservers are censoring some hostnames.

We have begun to replace those resolvers with OpenDNS resolvers, and every tracker should resolve by tomorrow normally.

24th Jan 2016
Entry20 available

Entry20 plan has finally some free slots available! :)

Order here and remember to grab extras if you need them! :)

18th Jan 2016