A bit misleading.... got excited over simple error. This is merely disk usage... server usage depends on several factors (which does include disk usage)... but I was thinking you hit a bandwidth limit due to excess customers and had to add load balancers or wrote custom provisioning scripts to create new cloud instances/turn off based on bandwidth usage.
Either way, this wasn’t even an organic thing because of customers—the issue was crontab so your server upgrades were kinda pointless when you coulda simply done the logging right i.e. handled it better from the start. In fact, it’s wrong to have a cron job that logs so much info. Ideally, you’d want to log only abnormal behaviour and normal behaviour must be consolidated into aggregated statistics instead. Anyway, glad you were able to find the culprit in the end.
Hello Saifur.
Exactly, the point of this story is that the first time around we didn't bother debugging closely to understand the issue and just placed a bandaid on it, which led to it happening again. I find FTP faster and easier for me to edit and upload files and that's why I used it in this case, after all it was a high pressure situation.
Thanks for reading.
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A bit misleading.... got excited over simple error. This is merely disk usage... server usage depends on several factors (which does include disk usage)... but I was thinking you hit a bandwidth limit due to excess customers and had to add load balancers or wrote custom provisioning scripts to create new cloud instances/turn off based on bandwidth usage.
Either way, this wasn’t even an organic thing because of customers—the issue was crontab so your server upgrades were kinda pointless when you coulda simply done the logging right i.e. handled it better from the start. In fact, it’s wrong to have a cron job that logs so much info. Ideally, you’d want to log only abnormal behaviour and normal behaviour must be consolidated into aggregated statistics instead. Anyway, glad you were able to find the culprit in the end.
P.S. It maybe ideal to switch from ftp to ssh.
Hello Saifur.
Exactly, the point of this story is that the first time around we didn't bother debugging closely to understand the issue and just placed a bandaid on it, which led to it happening again. I find FTP faster and easier for me to edit and upload files and that's why I used it in this case, after all it was a high pressure situation.
Thanks for reading.