[SJDXA] WA9PIE

[KE2OI]

Nice,

I will be taking the login for sjdxa off my packet cluster node then.

John KE2OI



On 8/15/2016 7:04 AM, N2OO wrote:
> SJDXA members
> More FYI:
>
> WA9PIE-2 DX Cluster gets a new home
>
> The WA9PIE-2 DX cluster system has moved to a hosted environment in 
> the Google Cloud.
>
> In late July, the hosting service where WA9PIE-2 resided suffered a 
> disk/storage failure that destroyed the files and data that ran the 
> system.  This caused an outage for a few weeks while engineers at the 
> hosting service attempted to recover the system.  That recovery was 
> unsuccessful and WA9PIE-2 was rebuilt from scratch on servers within 
> that data center.
>
> But as a technology professional, I don't like outages.  This isn't 
> the first time my hosting service has let me down.  But it will be the 
> last.
>
> As of 0300Z on 9-AUG-2016, the WA9PIE-2 DX cluster has been rebuilt in 
> the Google Cloud.  This approach has a number of benefits.  It's on 
> faster hardware that is able to scale up (processor, memory, and disk) 
> as usage ramps up.  It has dedicated Internet bandwidth that is at a 
> top "peering point" in the Internet.  It is in a highly reliable and 
> highly available data center.  Whereas, at peak, the former WA9PIE-2 
> environment supported several hundred connected users and more than a 
> dozen of the world's top cluster nodes as peers, this environment is 
> limited only by the amount of computing power in the Google Cloud.  In 
> other words - we're not going to exceed Google's capacity.
>
> The approach for WA9PIE-2 was born out of the need to (a) decrease the 
> propagation time of spots from around the world and (b) eliminate the 
> need for users to maintain several simultaneous DX cluster telnet 
> sessions at the same time (a few software titles provide this 
> ability).  Only a few nodes in the world have this design and even 
> fewer of them are hosted in a commercial data center.  WA9PIE-2 is 
> directly connected to cluster nodes around the world where over 80% of 
> the world's spots originate.  This eliminates the need for users to 
> maintain multiple telnet sessions.  WA9PIE-2 does not filter spots and 
> - therefore - enables users around the world to select their own 
> filtering as desired by band, mode, or region.
>
> The WA9PIE-2 cluster has also automated the update for DXSpider, the 
> AD1C country and prefix data, the USDB (FCC database), Keplerian data, 
> and other databases to ensure that the cluster is always up-to-date.
>
> WA9PIE-2 is the recommended DX cluster node for Ham Radio Deluxe 
> software.  But everyone is welcome to connect.
>
> WA9PIE-2
> hrd.wa9pie.net <http://hrd.wa9pie.net/> on port 8000
>
> 73 es good DX!
>
> Mike, WA9PIE
>
>
> /73. Bob Schenck, N2OO/
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
>
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