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Reading between the lines of provider status updates

General Discussion by tomhider 0 replies 109 views
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The "scheduled matnenance" at 2am on a saturday means they broke something and are scrambling. "performance optimizatoin" means they oversold the node and someones complaingn. "network hiccup" means their upstream had an outage and they're blmaing weathre or construction.

Heres my list of real meanings you figure it out he says

  • "routine security patch" = we got pwned and are cleaning up
  • "capacity expansion" = we finally bought more ram because the node was swapping to death
  • "brief connectivity interruption" = someone tripped over a cable
  • "enhanced monitoring implementation" = we had no monitoring before and a customer noticed
  • "upstream maintenance" = our cheap bandwidth provider ghosted us

I refuse to edit posts ever so if tehre are typos you deal with it

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