LoTW to be Offline for 6 hours 21 December

Not going to affect me, I never got it to work .

 

You're not the first person to mention this, and it is under consideration. Thanks for the suggestion. In one of my reports for IT modernization I had suggested that the database at the very least should be in the cloud. With the database on a managed service the scaling will all be done transparently.

 

You do realize that you used the plural form of server and database.

 

Beware of having the database in the cloud and the apps on-prem. You'll most likely use a VPN to connect the two networks, and I've found some providers' VPN solutions to be not as performant as expected. If you setup connectivity, I would highly suggest using iperf to test the available bandwidth for both single and multiple processes. For one provider, I found a single process could only get about 1/10 of the advertised bandwidth.

 

I perceive a noticeable difference for the better since it came back online. Much snappier page loads when pulling records. Good work!

 

Whew....I'm glad it's still working although I have not tried it as yet.

I always hold my breath whenever an "operating system" is taken down, played with, and returned to service.

It's always nice when a plan comes together!

 

I'm aware, as I'm an AWS certified architect and I've done Linux engineering for 20+ years. There are other things we are doing as well.

 

However, it works. I really like LOTW and appreciated when people use it.

Paper is pretty awesome too sometimes.

 

Sure - the same way we access the LotW servers now, right?

 

Warm greeting to your staf LoTW you are the Best de YB0DOS

 

Best I can tell, they host their own servers in-house, likely on the fiber that already comes into their building, and that they pay for anyway for internet access. Going to the cloud (or any datacenter) would be an absolutely ridiculous move as far as cost is concerned. But I'm sure all the linux engineers already realized that.

 

Hard to conclude without any internal knowedge. It sounds like Ria is on the right path.

A network link is only one of many factors at play in any move. Speaking from experience, the ability to scale up in a matter of minutes to hours or the ability to pause compute resources when not needed or not having to monitor hardware is advantageous. And some technologies you cannot host on-prem.