News

A Quick Update

10 Jul 2010

I purchased a new computer recently to replace several of my old ones. Two computers in particular were responsible for retrieving graph data and plotting graph data respectively. The new system has a slightly different Munin configuration because I switched from Debian to Ubuntu. So the graph colors will be different. Also some of the [...]
A different way to look at the network

9 Oct 2009

Since the middle of August the crawler has been recording the time when hubs join and leave the network. This allows for certain time based trends to be realized. The hub is identified by its IP address. One way to visualize a set of IP addresses is with the Hilbert curve which was made popular [...]
Two new experimental features

3 Oct 2009

A few weeks ago two new features were released. The first is a world map view of the country page and the second shows how the network size changes over time. World Map The world map shows two different data sets. Red circles represent where hubs say they are located. The size of the circle indicates how [...]
Network size

25 May 2009

The network size is now featured on the front page once again. When the new crawler was implemented that statistic had to be dropped because it was too resource intensive to calculate with how the new crawler worked. But now that issue has been resolved. Some background The number of leaves on the network isn’t a good [...]