Friday, August 21. 200900:37:17 up 36 min
Well, I finally made it over to the data center to complete the physical inspection of our box. In the process, I rebooted it - 516 days of time, gone.
Everything checked out on the hardware, although if any of you have a spare 1U case, or a DRR1 333Mhz stick of RAM (in anything greater than 512MB) laying around, our (recently turned) 5 years old server would probably appreciate some new life. Tuesday, August 4. 2009The Homestarmy Offline
thehomestarmy.com and its associated domains (joeysmith.com, hashphp.org and wingedwolves.com) will be offline tonight for a few hours so I can perform some system maintenance. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Wednesday, July 15. 2009Why you shouldn't hire crappy programmers
I came across the notes for a support item that I thought you all might enjoy:
It will never crash again. It will never output broken images again. Old <crappy programmers name removed> code cleaned up. It will run faster with less calls. But functionality wise the schema of these tables has left me confused. Tuesday, July 14. 2009I Want His Job
So we recently built a new site with online ordering for a company with 400+ franchises in multiple countries. It was a bit stressful for me taking the site live, and we pulled some long hours to work around a few oddities in the hosting environment. None of this was helped by the guy who is supposed to be in charge of the site (the client's head of IT). Then today, we get this awesome email from him.
I am the IT Admin for the <Client X> site and I do not have access to the File Manager portion of the <Hosting Environment> Admin site to archive the logs. Is this something that your admin has access to or could grant me access? Monday, June 15. 2009Site Outage Notification
If everything goes as planned, thehomestarmy.com, wingedwolves.com and joeysmith.com will be offline starting Friday afternoon at about 3pm through Sunday morning while we validate our backups and test recovery scenarios.
Monday, December 1. 2008Wednesday, November 12. 2008
This is why I'm not a server admin Posted by The Mad Giggler
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XMission Outage
--------------- XMission experienced a serious outage while we were performing some standard UPS maintenance today. The outage affected all services and started at approximately 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 11th. Network services for many were partially restored by about 2:30 p.m. but some other services required a lot of attention and took much longer. Details ------- About 40% of our data center, including our server room, suffered a power outage when a technician flipped a mislabled breaker during some standard maintenance on one of our 3 UPS units. Although the power outage was momentary, servers and routers often respond very poorly to losing power and sometimes take extensive work to come back up. Unfortunately, such was the case today with many systems. Seriously Affected Systems -------------------------- ** An important router, which some connections and servers rely on, required extensive attention from our network administrators. ** DNS (Domain Name Service) was sporadic for some customers for over an hour. ** Email services were down for over 5 hours. ** Web hosting suffered the longest outage because our NetApp storage appliance which houses all customer files and web sites lost multiple hard drives. As a result, we are currently restoring files to our new NetApp 2020 from our November 9th backup, which will take many hours yet to complete. We recently purchased this new NetApp and were merely days away from getting it online. Conclusion ---------- Today's outage was exascerbated by multiple systems responding poorly to losing power. In spite of the holiday, our systems administrators were on site within minutes and continue to work tirelessly to restore all services. In the end, we should have performed this maintenance on a day when our systems administrators were on site because problems can arise no matter how carefully you proceed. Sunday, September 28. 2008Blog Maintenance
Our blog has finally outgrown my Pentium 3 with 256MB of RAM - I'm shuffling things around to make it work a little better. In the meantime, you may see some outages or other strange messages. Please bear with me.
Tuesday, May 27. 2008Upgraded
s9y upgraded to 1.3.1
PHP upgraded to 5.2.6 Apache upgraded to 2.2.8 Let me know if anything's broken. Thursday, April 3. 2008From the New Game ShowHe Said ItMG: My lords, my ladies (and everybody else here not sitting on a cushion! ) let me present a link to a comment AoD made this week. Continue reading "From the New Game Show" Saturday, February 2. 2008"Category" Bug Fixed
When Radar was here tonight, after sharing Rodgasms of laughter, we were looking at the blog and noticed that the per-category view was not working - a bug that crept in during the 1.2.1 upgrade due to a missed SQL upgrade script on my part. This has now been rectum, you can again enjoy per-category viewing.
Thursday, January 31. 2008Just Marvey
[Ed: moved image below the fold per Daboo's request]
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Tuesday, January 29. 2008s9y Upgraded
We've moved to s9y - that's the software used to run this blog - version 1.2.1.
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