2018 Review


Posted on Dec 31, 2018 | By Hosting4Real

Yet another year has passed, we've grown and a lot of changes has been happening throughout the year.

2018 Statistics

  • Served 7 billion requests (average of 224.67 per second)[1].
  • Our peak traffic was around Black Friday with 412.78 million requests served over 7 days
  • 93.2 million requests served on Black Friday itself peaking at 3589 requests per second.
  • Served 198.80 terabyte HTTP traffic[2], which is 2.57 terabyte more than 2017.
  • We've blocked 2.46 million emails on our SpamExperts® spam-filter (45.55% spam).

Notes:

[1]: because of the optimization of websites as well as offloading traffic to our CDN, the growth of requests has been less.

[2]: Likewise with moving things to our content delivery network, we've also enabled Brotli support on our servers, which results in only a slight increase in traffic compared to 2017.

2018 Uptime Statistics:

server4 (gra4): 99.86% (Decommissioned in Feb 2018)
server5 (gra5): 99.98%
server6 (rbx6): 99.99%
server7 (rbx7): 100%
server8 (rbx8): 100%
server9 (gra9): 100% (Put into production in Jan 2018)
server10 (gra10): 100% (Put into production in Jun 2018)
server11 (fra11): 100% (Put into production in Nov 2018)

Notes about downtime:

  • january: Spectre/meltdown vulnerability patched: Made server4, not boot (same reason for decommissioning) Caused an issue on server5 with MySQL not coming up, resulting in about 45 minutes downtime.
  • December: Server6 suffered from a power outage in the rack for 25 minutes

2018 Achievements:

  • We've replaced a few locations on our CDN either to distribute traffic better, other locations have been upgraded to better hardware - we're now at 24 locations at this point.
  • We've migrated server4 to NVMe and expanded with server9, server10 and server11 that is also fully NVMe storage
  • We've introduced faster backups by utilizing JetBackup 4
  • We've made the switch from Apache to LiteSpeed which greatly improves performance and reliability of our platform. Additionally adding HTTP/2 push, Brotli, QUIC, and TLSv1.3.
  • We became a RIPE NCC member, RIPE Atlas anchor sponsor, and sponsor of the NLNog ring project.

2019 Goals:

  • We want to migrate server5 and server6 to NVMe, this was also our 2018 goal but a few issues prevented this from happening
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