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by GreenReaper
Thu Dec 17, 2020 10:06 pm
Forum: 2020
Topic: South Afrifur General Conversation!
Replies: 3
Views: 4431

Re: South Afrifur General Conversation!

Azora Husky wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:28 pm Haven't logged into here for a long time XD. But what shall happen to this section? Since 2020 had to be canceled :P
It will be forever a memory of the horror that was, and a warning of the end times to come.
by GreenReaper
Wed Jul 08, 2020 11:21 pm
Forum: Furry Chat
Topic: What are you doing RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 18558
Views: 3337485

Re: What are you doing RIGHT NOW?

besides, i made a poll on an art group on telegram and a bunch of folks voted to keep it furry... so i have decided to do the opposite and include humans... Owo honestly i dont even know why i bothered in the first place, i always end up just deciding for myself anyway and its usually contrary to t...
by GreenReaper
Fri May 22, 2020 8:21 pm
Forum: Furry Chat
Topic: Inkbunny launches South African cache
Replies: 21
Views: 10940

Re: Inkbunny launches South African cache

I guess it's time to forget about the NSA and start worrying about GreenReaper. Absolutely! Although I guess the CLOUD Act means you should worry about the NSA as well . We don't usually keep access logs on caches, but in this case it was useful to diagnose the performance issue as outlined above. ...
by GreenReaper
Fri May 22, 2020 12:39 am
Forum: Furry Chat
Topic: Inkbunny launches South African cache
Replies: 21
Views: 10940

Re: Inkbunny launches South African cache

The cache served 2.5GB of (mostly) thumbnails and site layout images in the last week, from ~200,000 requests by 827 separate IP addresses. Not a huge amount, and some users' access is spread across multiple addresses, but far from nothing. Better get recruiting! As is common, the pattern of usage i...
by GreenReaper
Sun May 17, 2020 11:59 pm
Forum: Furry Chat
Topic: Inkbunny launches South African cache
Replies: 21
Views: 10940

Re: Inkbunny launches South African cache

I've added what's probably the last component for now - a service providing wallpapers locally, which were previously redirected to the Netherlands. As the redirect is cached, you may not see it right away (it probably won't be that noticeable anyway, unless you're scrolling through wallpapers and i...
by GreenReaper
Wed May 06, 2020 9:41 pm
Forum: Furry Chat
Topic: Inkbunny launches South African cache
Replies: 21
Views: 10940

Re: Inkbunny launches South African cache

The storage/CDN VM inside South Africa was activated yesterday; requests not found in the CDN go to the VM in Johannesburg! Of course the first time anyone makes a request, it always has to pull the data from Europe anyway, but the idea is it only has to do that bit once, and then it just serves it ...
by GreenReaper
Thu Apr 30, 2020 9:55 pm
Forum: Furry Chat
Topic: Inkbunny launches South African cache
Replies: 21
Views: 10940

Re: Inkbunny launches South African cache

Looks like it's working! For the curious, here's the hit/miss data from the last hour highlighting the CDN point-of-presence used to serve each request. (JNB == Johannesburg, CPT == Cape Town, LON == London, AMS == Amsterdam) Bar chart generated from logs Raw output of log summarizing query Hit rate...
by GreenReaper
Thu Apr 30, 2020 6:09 pm
Forum: Furry Chat
Topic: Inkbunny launches South African cache
Replies: 21
Views: 10940

Re: Inkbunny launches South African cache

I might have missed something but I think I looked into it and my ISP doesn't seem to have IPv6 at all. I don't think many in South Africa offer it either. No, that's probably right; there's almost zero IPv6 penetration in South Africa (or, for that matter, the rest of Africa). I suspect the reason...
by GreenReaper
Thu Apr 30, 2020 5:56 pm
Forum: 2020
Topic: South Afrifur General Conversation!
Replies: 3
Views: 4431

Re: South Afrifur General Conversation!

I guess this subsection needs renaming now. 😅 Though maybe it'll still be called the 2020 convention, just in 2021?
by GreenReaper
Thu Apr 30, 2020 5:55 pm
Forum: Furry Chat
Topic: Inkbunny launches South African cache
Replies: 21
Views: 10940

Re: Inkbunny launches South African cache

Actually Inkbunny has always been really fast. It wasn't a few weeks back but that was when there was a break in one of the major undersea cables connecting South Africa to the rest of the world. Some sites weren't too badly affected but Inkbunny become unbearably slow. Good to know! Inkbunny's mai...
by GreenReaper
Thu Apr 30, 2020 5:35 pm
Forum: Furry Chat
Topic: Inkbunny launches South African cache
Replies: 21
Views: 10940

Re: Inkbunny launches South African cache

Good news! While our prior cache lapsed in mid-2016 after our coupon's expiry - IB has a global budget of ~$10/day, which only goes so far, and it was hard to get a VM that wasn't more than we needed in the area - we've had our eye on offers from cloud providers since then, and last year it became p...
by GreenReaper
Tue Apr 28, 2020 5:32 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Age or changing technologies
Replies: 11
Views: 6416

Re: Age or changing technologies

It's definitely a thing. I used to spend hours on LiveJournal, and I wrote many long journals on Inkbunny as well - but in the last few years, things tend to go on Twitter or to a lesser extent Discord or Telegram. This is potentially not a good development, as long-form content has worth, as does c...
by GreenReaper
Tue Apr 28, 2020 11:29 am
Forum: Furry Chat
Topic: What are you doing RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 18558
Views: 3337485

Re: What are you doing RIGHT NOW?

You do have a point though. His processor; Ryzen 7 3700U, has 4 cores and 8 threads. So limiting it to physical processors would be a good idea. Though, as a counter argument. With a heavily paralleled workload like simulations, isn't that where multi threading would actually be advantageous? Most ...
by GreenReaper
Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:40 am
Forum: Furry Chat
Topic: What are you doing RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 18558
Views: 3337485

Re: What are you doing RIGHT NOW?

I dunno. I can see from the system monitor that it does occasionally switch cores. The pre-test step recommended 4-5 cores to maximise the speed. If it uses all of them it starts wasting time transferring information between them and setting them up. Depending on the CPU and the task it may work be...
by GreenReaper
Tue Jul 09, 2019 11:24 pm
Forum: Help and Suggestions
Topic: Short Films Thread is SUPER Broken
Replies: 23
Views: 9542

Re: Short Films Thread is SUPER Broken

Adagio wrote: Tue Jul 09, 2019 8:05 am I didn't know Greenreaper was a member here?
I'm everywhere, man. I'm like the wind. A green, cheesy wind.
by GreenReaper
Tue Sep 08, 2015 12:26 pm
Forum: 2016
Topic: What do you think is a fair cost for a con?
Replies: 21
Views: 4054

Re: What do you think is a fair cost for a con?

Make separate levels at, say, R995, R1495, R1995, R2995, maybe more. Some might include accommodation, if you can get a good deal on it; but beware, you may have to guarantee to sell a particular number of rooms, which can bite you. Make it clear that the people who pay more are cool; give them priv...
by GreenReaper
Tue Sep 08, 2015 12:16 pm
Forum: 2016
Topic: You're doing it wrong
Replies: 10
Views: 3008

Re: You're doing it wrong

Furry fan conventions are first and foremost about the people attending. Anthrocon is perhaps the most commercial (in the sense of artists and dealers making lots of money) and has a lot of big events, but it is not the model to aim at for the first con in a new country - and even so, many come for ...
by GreenReaper
Sun Sep 06, 2015 11:51 am
Forum: Discussion
Topic: what are you a leader or a follower
Replies: 19
Views: 3912

Re: what are you a leader or a follower

Most people benefit from being both followers and leaders depending on the situation. Obviously, if you are incompetent in a particular task, you are not likely to do a very good job at leading others in it. Conversely, following a less-competent leader can doom even the most competent. To accomplis...
by GreenReaper
Wed Sep 02, 2015 11:08 am
Forum: Furry Chat
Topic: Inkbunny launches South African cache
Replies: 21
Views: 10940

Re: Inkbunny launches South African cache

This is absolutely amazing. I will probably try to get more of a presence on inkbunny then if it will help. We have plenty of room for greater use in South Africa, and submissions; both are beneficial to others! :-) I don't know how you'd feel about sharing some or all of your older art with our me...
by GreenReaper
Wed Jul 29, 2015 5:01 am
Forum: Furry Chat
Topic: Inkbunny launches South African cache
Replies: 21
Views: 10940

Inkbunny launches South African cache

Hi all! Over the past few months, furry art community Inkbunny ( wiki ) has been on a quest to improve performance, deploying public file caches in the USA and Australia , as well as Canada, Japan and Brazil . Today we launched one in Johannesburg! :-) It's not super-powerful - a 50%-core Xeon E5-24...
by GreenReaper
Thu Jan 08, 2015 1:33 pm
Forum: South Afrifur Pawdcast
Topic: General Pawdcast
Replies: 217
Views: 40906

Re: General Pawdcast

i wanna learn more about how active and involved the community is overseas. particularly England. I'd say reasonably active. There was a big party with hundreds of people in London in December, and of course there is ConFuzzled with over a thousand attendees (many come from overseas). The regular L...
by GreenReaper
Mon Jan 05, 2015 12:39 am
Forum: South Afrifur Pawdcast
Topic: General Pawdcast
Replies: 217
Views: 40906

Re: General Pawdcast

Thanks for having me on the show today! Hopefully the extended session wasn't too tiring. o_o
by GreenReaper
Mon Jan 23, 2012 5:41 am
Forum: Announcements and Rules
Topic: Antispam
Replies: 17
Views: 3744

Re: Antispam

I would like to register my concern at being forced to say "yes" to "are you a human" on a furry site. :-)

Perhaps we can come up with a more appropriate question? "What do foxes say?" "What is the biggest furry convention?" There must be something else everyone can answer.