DocAndersen
The reality of what we covered yesterday, Cloud computing is that cloud computing is for the most focused on the reality of automation. Private and Personal clouds are more expensive in that you have to, in deploying them, have 100% of your maximum capacity available. With a personal cloud and a private cloud you, as the cloud owner and operator are responsible for the hardware. With Community, SaaS and Public cloud offerings, you only rent the computing power for your Virtual Machines.
- Virtual Machine is a computer asset that is not physical. You pay for what you use!
- There is a concept I will cover later that also fits, called a Cloud aware or cloud-enabled applicat9ion.
Virily, the application we all know and love is a web application. It has several features that are somewhat standard in the web world and several features that are well, unique. The standard features are ones that most of us are aware of and have used in many web applications. Amazon.com is a web site. It is an e-commerce web site. The unique things about Amazon are behind the front end. The end is similar to web sites built in the mid-199-0s when the first web sites began to appear. HTML has continued to improve and evolve since those early sites. The thing to remember about web sites is that the people that build the site, normally have a browser preference. They, the developers, use Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Intent Explorer, Mosaic and so on their computer. The browser they use influences what they built. So if the site (say apple.com) functions better with a Safari browser, well what is shocking about that. The same is true for Google and the Chrome browser and of course, Microsoft and its Edge or IE browsers.
The back end or unique parts of Virily is where the complexity begins. Add to that complexity the users connecting and you see why sometimes admins don’t talk to users! Your computer, your connection, the time your browser takes to connect in MS, the site (Virily.com) and the action you are taking all drive the various errors we get. 503 and 504 errors are often somewhere in the middle between your computer and the Verily servers. 524 errors are also in the middle. Why? It is a timeout error; sometimes your browser doesn’t like to wait. Sometimes the server isn’t responding in a timely fashion. In both cases, you get 524 errors.
All of the errors are frustrating. That is something that all of us experience, and it is frustrating. But the complexity of Virily is what lies beyond the browser page.
More to come
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Are you interested in how to improve your reader numbers on Virily?
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Would you like me to post the new Virily Influences list?
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Do you know no one should ever ask you to read their posts, just because they read yours?
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I knew timeout errors occurred because my browser doesn’t like to wait, and I’m quite disappointed. I’ve always thought machines and their programs didn’t have feelings, but they happen to be impatient. Whatever. ?
It is interesting, the mix of the time stamp and machine time can wreak havoc. Financial transactions require that both be the same.
Are you implying financial transactions forced all the other activities to be executed in a limited amount of time? Then it’s true that money is the root of all evil. ?
no it was simply an example. Email also requires timestamped packets. So does the web browser.
Any site you have to log into, will and can timeout because of the time stamp and the time the packets need to travel.
ut money, certainly doesn’t help!
Virily is a great place and yes, I am interested in knowing how to increase my reader numbers. But it should not be here alone in Virily. I also want more readers from outside of this platform. When I write, I also consider SEO. But I am still in the process of digging deeper in it.
I agree the value of the movers’ list I am putting together is I am to a degree studying the impact of both on Virily and externally.
For social I am looking at the impact of Facebook and Twitter. Harder to measure the others right now.
Oh yes, I also use Facebook and Twitter. But I am exploring Pinterest more. That’s why I am creating vertical graphics for almost all of my blog posts. The main idea of that is for sharing with Pinterest.
To be honest, I’ve used Pinterest as a blog backup system for years but I don’t have many followers there.
I agree with Carol, and you are also a great influencer Doc Anderson as well as Ghostwriter, and Carol DM.
There are a few more folks that bring other readers with them as well but thank you for the kind words!
Thanks Doc, it explains a lot. I don’t know much about the technical details, but it is extending my knowledge and understanding. What you say makes sense,
Thank you for the kind word Pam! You made my am!
Why on earth did it post twice lol? Okay, so are you going to post the Influences and teach us all about it? I think I got way off on the left side of that before.
I am working through the numbers right now, you and CarolDM are huge movers.
It is very interesting publication and I think that every member of Virilya should read it
Thanks! Just trying to get both sides out so that people can make good decisions.
I only agree with this, and it is more difficult to explain, dear friend
I completely understand. Everyone has a voice!
a timeout could be serverside, if the server(s) becomes overwhelmed by requests but it could also be clientside, if your system is running more processes than it can handle. however, if the network between your system and the network has a lot of latency, the timeout could occur anywhere inbetween
Oh yeah, it can always be a server side issue. Hadn’t gotten that far yet. Wanted to make sure people were clear that it was more than just Virily is down.
even with pings, you can’t always determine where the latency is happening
with pings in this scenairio, I am more interested in figuring out the differences between connections.
I sit at 4, 5 ms most days.
Say you are at 15-30 per connection. If you have 503/504 issues it is different than if I have them. If you have a 524 it is a 50/50 that it is your connection not the actual site.
That’s why knowing what the baseline is first helps!
absolutely. but if you don’t know the IP address of a machine in close proximity to the server you’re trying to ping, you can hardly establish a basis for comparison
but if you have a baseline, you can calculate the deviation
exactly!
I actually don’t want to use IP addresses in this test. I want to test against DNS connections.
I can shave time off of directly pinging an IP address.
Most users, however, go to Virily.com – not the buried IP address 🙂
Again very interesting information. I am really interested in how to improve the number of readers on Virily
Well, sadly part of that is getting the Virily team to reduce the 503 and 504 errors. That really hurts readers joining the site.
I agree. Not everyone is as persistent as we are. They despair at every little thing.
That is ok, to despair. It is ok to be frustrated. But if there are ways to fix what causes you pain, fix it!
Thanks for the kind words, as always!
Thank you very much for your kind comment. ?
….”Add to that complexity the users connecting and you see why sometimes admins don’t talk to users!”
I don’t think that is a good excuse for getting no response from emails or communication. Just sayin’.
I’ve heard the request before Carol. You’ve mentioned the issue many, many times.
I do hear your frustration. I suspect the admin team has heard as well.
But nothing is changing, it is not helping me if they don’t respond.
I do truly understand what you are saying.
I also know, doing the same thing over and over, and not getting the results you want, means it is time to do something different.
excellent article and information
Thanks, Branka! Trying to make sure our community grows!
Some say knowledge is power, others say knowledge is dangerous. I am stuck somewhere in between.
Knowledge is the one thing no one can take from you.
Some say knowledge is powers, others say knowledge is dangerous. I am stuck somewhere in between.
The more we know the ore we can do!