An appeal for more bandwidth to the Internet Archive
Hello all! Last week the Internet Archive upgraded their bandwidth 30% from 47 Gbps to 62 Gbps. It was all gobbled up immediately. There's a lovely solid green graph showing how usage grows vertically as each interface comes online until it too is 100% saturated. Looking at the graph legend you can see that their usage for the past 24 hours averages 49.76G on their 50G of transport. To see the pretty pictures follow the below link: https://blog.archive.org/2020/05/11/thank-you-for-helping-us-increase-our-ba... Relevant parts from the blog post: "A year ago, usage was 30Gbits/sec. At the beginning of this year, we were at 40Gbits/sec, and we were handling it. ... Then Covid-19 hit and demand rocketed to 50Gbits/sec and overran our network infrastructure’s ability to handle it. So much so, our network statistics probes had difficulty collecting data (hence the white spots in the graphs). We bought a second router with new line cards, and got it installed and running (and none of this is easy during a pandemic), and increased our capacity from 47Gbits/sec peak to 62Gbits/sec peak. And we are handling it better, but it is still consumed." It is obvious that the Internet Archive needs more bandwidth to power the Wayback machine and to fulfill its mission of being the Internet library and the historic archive of our times. The Internet Archive is present at Digital Realty SFO (200 Paul) and a member of the San Francisco Metropolitan Internet Exchange (SFMIX). I appeal to all list members present or capable of getting to these facilities to peer with and/or donate bandwidth to the Internet Archive. I appeal to all vendors and others with equipment that they can donate to the Internet Archive to contact them so that they can scale their services and sustain their growth. The Internet Archive is currently running 10G equipment. If you can help them gain 100G connectivity, 100G routing, 100G switching and/or 100G DWDM capabilities, please reach out to them. They have the infrastructure and dark fiber to transition to 100G, but lack the equipment. You can find the Internet Archive's contact information below or you can contact Jonah at the Archive Org directly either by email or via the contact information available on his Twitter profile @jonahedwards. You can also donate at https://archive.org/donate/ The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Donations are tax-deductible. Contact information: https://archive.org/about/contact.php Volunteering: https://archive.org/about/volunteerpositions.php Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with the Internet Archive. Nobody asked me to write this post. If something angers you about this post, be angry at me. I merely think that the Internet Archive is a good thing and deserves our support. Jared
Jared... Thanks for sharing this. I was the first Director of Operations from '96 to '98, at was was then Internet Archive/Alex. I was the network architect back then got them their ASN and original address space. Folks may also know, I help start SFMIX with Matt Peterson. A bit more detail in this... Some of this I got from Jonah Edwards who is the current Network Architect at IA. Yes, the bottle neck was the line cards. They have upgraded and that has certainly helped the bandwidth of late. Peering would be a big help for IA. At this point they have two 10Gb LAG interfaces that show up on SFMIX that was turned up last February. Looking at the last couple of weeks the 95th percentile on this 20Gb LAG is 3 Gb. As they just turned up on SFMIX, they are just starting to get peers turned up there. Eyeball networks that show up on SFMIX are highly encouraged to start peering with them. Alas, they are v4 only at this point. Additionally, if folks do have some fat pipes that can donate bandwidth at 200 Paul, I am sure Jonah won't turn it down. Tim On 5/12/20 4:45 AM, Jared Brown wrote:
Hello all!
Last week the Internet Archive upgraded their bandwidth 30% from 47 Gbps to 62 Gbps. It was all gobbled up immediately. There's a lovely solid green graph showing how usage grows vertically as each interface comes online until it too is 100% saturated. Looking at the graph legend you can see that their usage for the past 24 hours averages 49.76G on their 50G of transport.
To see the pretty pictures follow the below link: https://blog.archive.org/2020/05/11/thank-you-for-helping-us-increase-our-ba...
Relevant parts from the blog post: "A year ago, usage was 30Gbits/sec. At the beginning of this year, we were at 40Gbits/sec, and we were handling it. ...
Then Covid-19 hit and demand rocketed to 50Gbits/sec and overran our network infrastructure’s ability to handle it. So much so, our network statistics probes had difficulty collecting data (hence the white spots in the graphs).
We bought a second router with new line cards, and got it installed and running (and none of this is easy during a pandemic), and increased our capacity from 47Gbits/sec peak to 62Gbits/sec peak. And we are handling it better, but it is still consumed."
It is obvious that the Internet Archive needs more bandwidth to power the Wayback machine and to fulfill its mission of being the Internet library and the historic archive of our times.
The Internet Archive is present at Digital Realty SFO (200 Paul) and a member of the San Francisco Metropolitan Internet Exchange (SFMIX). I appeal to all list members present or capable of getting to these facilities to peer with and/or donate bandwidth to the Internet Archive. I appeal to all vendors and others with equipment that they can donate to the Internet Archive to contact them so that they can scale their services and sustain their growth.
The Internet Archive is currently running 10G equipment. If you can help them gain 100G connectivity, 100G routing, 100G switching and/or 100G DWDM capabilities, please reach out to them. They have the infrastructure and dark fiber to transition to 100G, but lack the equipment. You can find the Internet Archive's contact information below or you can contact Jonah at the Archive Org directly either by email or via the contact information available on his Twitter profile @jonahedwards.
You can also donate at https://archive.org/donate/ The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Donations are tax-deductible.
Contact information: https://archive.org/about/contact.php
Volunteering: https://archive.org/about/volunteerpositions.php
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with the Internet Archive. Nobody asked me to write this post. If something angers you about this post, be angry at me. I merely think that the Internet Archive is a good thing and deserves our support.
Jared
Is the increased usage due to more users or more existing users having higher bandwidth at home to request faster ? Would be interested if IPS configured firewall used to block out invalid traffic/spam traffic and if such traffic increased when back end network capacity increased ? What countries are requesting the most data and does this analysis throw up questions as to why ? Are there high network usage hitters which raise question as to why asking for so much data time and time again and is this valid traffic use ? Colin
On 12 May 2020, at 17:33, Tim Požár <pozar@lns.com> wrote:
Jared...
Thanks for sharing this. I was the first Director of Operations from '96 to '98, at was was then Internet Archive/Alex. I was the network architect back then got them their ASN and original address space. Folks may also know, I help start SFMIX with Matt Peterson.
A bit more detail in this... Some of this I got from Jonah Edwards who is the current Network Architect at IA. Yes, the bottle neck was the line cards. They have upgraded and that has certainly helped the bandwidth of late.
Peering would be a big help for IA. At this point they have two 10Gb LAG interfaces that show up on SFMIX that was turned up last February. Looking at the last couple of weeks the 95th percentile on this 20Gb LAG is 3 Gb. As they just turned up on SFMIX, they are just starting to get peers turned up there. Eyeball networks that show up on SFMIX are highly encouraged to start peering with them. Alas, they are v4 only at this point.
Additionally, if folks do have some fat pipes that can donate bandwidth at 200 Paul, I am sure Jonah won't turn it down.
Tim
On 5/12/20 4:45 AM, Jared Brown wrote:
Hello all! Last week the Internet Archive upgraded their bandwidth 30% from 47 Gbps to 62 Gbps. It was all gobbled up immediately. There's a lovely solid green graph showing how usage grows vertically as each interface comes online until it too is 100% saturated. Looking at the graph legend you can see that their usage for the past 24 hours averages 49.76G on their 50G of transport. To see the pretty pictures follow the below link: https://blog.archive.org/2020/05/11/thank-you-for-helping-us-increase-our-ba... Relevant parts from the blog post: "A year ago, usage was 30Gbits/sec. At the beginning of this year, we were at 40Gbits/sec, and we were handling it. ... Then Covid-19 hit and demand rocketed to 50Gbits/sec and overran our network infrastructure’s ability to handle it. So much so, our network statistics probes had difficulty collecting data (hence the white spots in the graphs). We bought a second router with new line cards, and got it installed and running (and none of this is easy during a pandemic), and increased our capacity from 47Gbits/sec peak to 62Gbits/sec peak. And we are handling it better, but it is still consumed." It is obvious that the Internet Archive needs more bandwidth to power the Wayback machine and to fulfill its mission of being the Internet library and the historic archive of our times. The Internet Archive is present at Digital Realty SFO (200 Paul) and a member of the San Francisco Metropolitan Internet Exchange (SFMIX). I appeal to all list members present or capable of getting to these facilities to peer with and/or donate bandwidth to the Internet Archive. I appeal to all vendors and others with equipment that they can donate to the Internet Archive to contact them so that they can scale their services and sustain their growth. The Internet Archive is currently running 10G equipment. If you can help them gain 100G connectivity, 100G routing, 100G switching and/or 100G DWDM capabilities, please reach out to them. They have the infrastructure and dark fiber to transition to 100G, but lack the equipment. You can find the Internet Archive's contact information below or you can contact Jonah at the Archive Org directly either by email or via the contact information available on his Twitter profile @jonahedwards. You can also donate at https://archive.org/donate/ The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Donations are tax-deductible. Contact information: https://archive.org/about/contact.php Volunteering: https://archive.org/about/volunteerpositions.php Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with the Internet Archive. Nobody asked me to write this post. If something angers you about this post, be angry at me. I merely think that the Internet Archive is a good thing and deserves our support. Jared
Could the operation be moved out of California to achieve dramatically reduced operating costs and perhaps solve some problems via cost savings vs increased donation? I have to imagine with the storage and processing requirements that the footprint and power usage in SFO is quite costly. I have equipment in a few California colo's and it's easily 3x what I pay for similar in Nevada, before even getting into tax abatement advantages. On 5/12/20, 1:33 PM, "NANOG on behalf of colin johnston" <nanog-bounces@nanog.org on behalf of colinj@gt86car.org.uk> wrote: Is the increased usage due to more users or more existing users having higher bandwidth at home to request faster ? Would be interested if IPS configured firewall used to block out invalid traffic/spam traffic and if such traffic increased when back end network capacity increased ? What countries are requesting the most data and does this analysis throw up questions as to why ? Are there high network usage hitters which raise question as to why asking for so much data time and time again and is this valid traffic use ? Colin > On 12 May 2020, at 17:33, Tim Požár <pozar@lns.com> wrote: > > Jared... > > Thanks for sharing this. I was the first Director of Operations from '96 to '98, at was was then Internet Archive/Alex. I was the network architect back then got them their ASN and original address space. Folks may also know, I help start SFMIX with Matt Peterson. > > A bit more detail in this... Some of this I got from Jonah Edwards who is the current Network Architect at IA. Yes, the bottle neck was the line cards. They have upgraded and that has certainly helped the bandwidth of late. > > Peering would be a big help for IA. At this point they have two 10Gb LAG interfaces that show up on SFMIX that was turned up last February. Looking at the last couple of weeks the 95th percentile on this 20Gb LAG is 3 Gb. As they just turned up on SFMIX, they are just starting to get peers turned up there. Eyeball networks that show up on SFMIX are highly encouraged to start peering with them. Alas, they are v4 only at this point. > > Additionally, if folks do have some fat pipes that can donate bandwidth at 200 Paul, I am sure Jonah won't turn it down. > > Tim > > On 5/12/20 4:45 AM, Jared Brown wrote: >> Hello all! >> Last week the Internet Archive upgraded their bandwidth 30% from 47 Gbps to 62 Gbps. It was all gobbled up immediately. There's a lovely solid green graph showing how usage grows vertically as each interface comes online until it too is 100% saturated. Looking at the graph legend you can see that their usage for the past 24 hours averages 49.76G on their 50G of transport. >> To see the pretty pictures follow the below link: >> https://blog.archive.org/2020/05/11/thank-you-for-helping-us-increase-our-ba... >> Relevant parts from the blog post: >> "A year ago, usage was 30Gbits/sec. At the beginning of this year, we were at 40Gbits/sec, and we were handling it. ... >> Then Covid-19 hit and demand rocketed to 50Gbits/sec and overran our network infrastructure’s ability to handle it. So much so, our network statistics probes had difficulty collecting data (hence the white spots in the graphs). >> We bought a second router with new line cards, and got it installed and running (and none of this is easy during a pandemic), and increased our capacity from 47Gbits/sec peak to 62Gbits/sec peak. And we are handling it better, but it is still consumed." >> It is obvious that the Internet Archive needs more bandwidth to power the Wayback machine and to fulfill its mission of being the Internet library and the historic archive of our times. >> The Internet Archive is present at Digital Realty SFO (200 Paul) and a member of the San Francisco Metropolitan Internet Exchange (SFMIX). >> I appeal to all list members present or capable of getting to these facilities to peer with and/or donate bandwidth to the Internet Archive. >> I appeal to all vendors and others with equipment that they can donate to the Internet Archive to contact them so that they can scale their services and sustain their growth. >> The Internet Archive is currently running 10G equipment. If you can help them gain 100G connectivity, 100G routing, 100G switching and/or 100G DWDM capabilities, please reach out to them. They have the infrastructure and dark fiber to transition to 100G, but lack the equipment. You can find the Internet Archive's contact information below or you can contact Jonah at the Archive Org directly either by email or via the contact information available on his Twitter profile @jonahedwards. >> You can also donate at https://archive.org/donate/ >> The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Donations are tax-deductible. >> Contact information: >> https://archive.org/about/contact.php >> Volunteering: >> https://archive.org/about/volunteerpositions.php >> Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with the Internet Archive. Nobody asked me to write this post. If something angers you about this post, be angry at me. I merely think that the Internet Archive is a good thing and deserves our support. >> Jared
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:32 AM colin johnston <colinj@gt86car.org.uk> wrote:
Is the increased usage due to more users or more existing users having higher bandwidth at home to request faster ? Would be interested if IPS configured firewall used to block out invalid traffic/spam traffic and if such traffic increased when back end network capacity increased ? What countries are requesting the most data and does this analysis throw up questions as to why ? Are there high network usage hitters which raise question as to why asking for so much data time and time again and is this valid traffic use ?
Amongst a certain group of users, bulk downloading of the archive is popular: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/an8srw/is_there_anyway_to_bulk... Tom
Heh. I just did this recently as I started a low power FM station (KPEA-LP). I did a bulk download of about 10,000 cuts of IA's 78 collection from 1923 and earlier as those recordings are all in the public domain. Tim On 5/12/20 11:50 AM, Tom Hayward wrote:
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:32 AM colin johnston <colinj@gt86car.org.uk> wrote:
Is the increased usage due to more users or more existing users having higher bandwidth at home to request faster ? Would be interested if IPS configured firewall used to block out invalid traffic/spam traffic and if such traffic increased when back end network capacity increased ? What countries are requesting the most data and does this analysis throw up questions as to why ? Are there high network usage hitters which raise question as to why asking for so much data time and time again and is this valid traffic use ?
Amongst a certain group of users, bulk downloading of the archive is popular: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/an8srw/is_there_anyway_to_bulk...
Tom
Thank you Jared & Tim! Fortunately the recent upgrade has gotten us some overhead in the short term -- we generally run very close to the edge, capacity-wise, in order to get the most out of what we have, so a sudden unexpected burst in demand pinned us for a bit there. I expect more upgrades to be necessary in the near future, particularly on the egress bandwidth and long-haul datacenter interconnect fronts, and would love to talk off-list about help with peering/pipes in the Bay Area and 100G gear especially. To answer a couple sibling thread questions, traffic is pretty legitimate -- lots of users accessing lots of content. We're fine with folks downloading in bulk and most who do use our torrent functionality to do so. We have a broad view of regionality of visitors, but we very intentionally don't keep specific usage records (after all, we are a library, and we don't track our patrons -- this also precludes the use of most commercial CDNs). See e.g. https://archive.org/services/docs/api/views.html#footnote-what-is-the-deal-w... for some info. As far as colocation costs, we run our own datacenters in the Bay Area, where most of our on-site staff lives and where fully ambient cooling is possible year-round. Our presence in 200 Paul is a terminus for our dark fiber and a place to make XCs -- actually only a single rack. Thanks again for the all the appreciation and help - -- Jonah Edwards jonah@archive.org 4157638676 On 2020-05-12 09:33, Tim Požár wrote:
Jared...
Thanks for sharing this. I was the first Director of Operations from '96 to '98, at was was then Internet Archive/Alex. I was the network architect back then got them their ASN and original address space. Folks may also know, I help start SFMIX with Matt Peterson.
A bit more detail in this... Some of this I got from Jonah Edwards who is the current Network Architect at IA. Yes, the bottle neck was the line cards. They have upgraded and that has certainly helped the bandwidth of late.
Peering would be a big help for IA. At this point they have two 10Gb LAG interfaces that show up on SFMIX that was turned up last February. Looking at the last couple of weeks the 95th percentile on this 20Gb LAG is 3 Gb. As they just turned up on SFMIX, they are just starting to get peers turned up there. Eyeball networks that show up on SFMIX are highly encouraged to start peering with them. Alas, they are v4 only at this point.
Additionally, if folks do have some fat pipes that can donate bandwidth at 200 Paul, I am sure Jonah won't turn it down.
Tim
On 5/12/20 4:45 AM, Jared Brown wrote:
Hello all!
Last week the Internet Archive upgraded their bandwidth 30% from 47 Gbps to 62 Gbps. It was all gobbled up immediately. There's a lovely solid green graph showing how usage grows vertically as each interface comes online until it too is 100% saturated. Looking at the graph legend you can see that their usage for the past 24 hours averages 49.76G on their 50G of transport.
To see the pretty pictures follow the below link: https://blog.archive.org/2020/05/11/thank-you-for-helping-us-increase-our-ba...
Relevant parts from the blog post: "A year ago, usage was 30Gbits/sec. At the beginning of this year, we were at 40Gbits/sec, and we were handling it. ...
Then Covid-19 hit and demand rocketed to 50Gbits/sec and overran our network infrastructure’s ability to handle it. So much so, our network statistics probes had difficulty collecting data (hence the white spots in the graphs).
We bought a second router with new line cards, and got it installed and running (and none of this is easy during a pandemic), and increased our capacity from 47Gbits/sec peak to 62Gbits/sec peak. And we are handling it better, but it is still consumed."
It is obvious that the Internet Archive needs more bandwidth to power the Wayback machine and to fulfill its mission of being the Internet library and the historic archive of our times.
The Internet Archive is present at Digital Realty SFO (200 Paul) and a member of the San Francisco Metropolitan Internet Exchange (SFMIX). I appeal to all list members present or capable of getting to these facilities to peer with and/or donate bandwidth to the Internet Archive. I appeal to all vendors and others with equipment that they can donate to the Internet Archive to contact them so that they can scale their services and sustain their growth.
The Internet Archive is currently running 10G equipment. If you can help them gain 100G connectivity, 100G routing, 100G switching and/or 100G DWDM capabilities, please reach out to them. They have the infrastructure and dark fiber to transition to 100G, but lack the equipment. You can find the Internet Archive's contact information below or you can contact Jonah at the Archive Org directly either by email or via the contact information available on his Twitter profile @jonahedwards.
You can also donate at https://archive.org/donate/ The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Donations are tax-deductible.
Contact information: https://archive.org/about/contact.php
Volunteering: https://archive.org/about/volunteerpositions.php
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with the Internet Archive. Nobody asked me to write this post. If something angers you about this post, be angry at me. I merely think that the Internet Archive is a good thing and deserves our support.
Jared
We can absolutely help and will gladly donate. I’ll reach out to Joah, anyone else want to coordinate? -Ben Ms. Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO ben@6by7.net <mailto:ben@6by7.net> "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ
On May 12, 2020, at 4:45 AM, Jared Brown <nanog-isp@mail.com> wrote:
Hello all!
Last week the Internet Archive upgraded their bandwidth 30% from 47 Gbps to 62 Gbps. It was all gobbled up immediately. There's a lovely solid green graph showing how usage grows vertically as each interface comes online until it too is 100% saturated. Looking at the graph legend you can see that their usage for the past 24 hours averages 49.76G on their 50G of transport.
To see the pretty pictures follow the below link: https://blog.archive.org/2020/05/11/thank-you-for-helping-us-increase-our-ba...
Relevant parts from the blog post: "A year ago, usage was 30Gbits/sec. At the beginning of this year, we were at 40Gbits/sec, and we were handling it. ...
Then Covid-19 hit and demand rocketed to 50Gbits/sec and overran our network infrastructure’s ability to handle it. So much so, our network statistics probes had difficulty collecting data (hence the white spots in the graphs).
We bought a second router with new line cards, and got it installed and running (and none of this is easy during a pandemic), and increased our capacity from 47Gbits/sec peak to 62Gbits/sec peak. And we are handling it better, but it is still consumed."
It is obvious that the Internet Archive needs more bandwidth to power the Wayback machine and to fulfill its mission of being the Internet library and the historic archive of our times.
The Internet Archive is present at Digital Realty SFO (200 Paul) and a member of the San Francisco Metropolitan Internet Exchange (SFMIX). I appeal to all list members present or capable of getting to these facilities to peer with and/or donate bandwidth to the Internet Archive. I appeal to all vendors and others with equipment that they can donate to the Internet Archive to contact them so that they can scale their services and sustain their growth.
The Internet Archive is currently running 10G equipment. If you can help them gain 100G connectivity, 100G routing, 100G switching and/or 100G DWDM capabilities, please reach out to them. They have the infrastructure and dark fiber to transition to 100G, but lack the equipment. You can find the Internet Archive's contact information below or you can contact Jonah at the Archive Org directly either by email or via the contact information available on his Twitter profile @jonahedwards.
You can also donate at https://archive.org/donate/ The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Donations are tax-deductible.
Contact information: https://archive.org/about/contact.php
Volunteering: https://archive.org/about/volunteerpositions.php
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with the Internet Archive. Nobody asked me to write this post. If something angers you about this post, be angry at me. I merely think that the Internet Archive is a good thing and deserves our support.
Jared
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Ben Cannon -
colin johnston -
David Hubbard -
Jared Brown -
Jonah Edwards -
Tim Požár -
Tom Hayward