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2006-May-16
Automatic spam filtering is now enabled. Affects all mail services, including forwarding accounts and mailing lists.
2006-May-05
http/https (web) services down from 7:28 to 9:07 PDT. Same as last week.
2006-Apr-28
http/https (web) services down from 12:24 to 20:53 PDT. Somehow Apache's getting completely tied up waiting for Tomcat. Added timeouts and periodic connection recycling. This happened once earlier this year and I forgot to add it to this log.
2005-Dec-10
All services down from 11:45 to 12:05 PST. Migration to replacement hardware complete. Replaced disks, motherboard, power supply.
2005-Dec-03
All services down from 21:00 to 00:00 PST. Failed to migrate to replacement hardware. Downtime in the the new few days to try again.
2005-Nov-18
All services down from approx 6:00 to 20:00 PST due to hardware failures. The motherboard and/or the power supply went flakey and one hard disk failed. All services are back up on the remaining disk and borrowed hardware. There will be downtime 12/03 to install replacement parts.

Current Status

Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) running on kiwi. Local time is Fri Jul 30 20:51:24 2010 PDT. Check out the UPS status.

Infrastructure

The server, carrot, runs Debian ("Sarge" release) Linux. The box is an Intel P4 with a simple RAID-1. Between you and carrot is an IPCop firewall. It's an old AMD K6-III with 256 MiB named rhubarb.

History

This website started life on an AMD K6-2 laptop made by now-bankrupt Trogon. In 2004-02 I switched from SuSE to Debian, which (back then) was trickier to install but is much easier to maintain. In late 2004 the server moved to an AMD K6-III with 256 MiB of RAM and migrated from Debian Woody to Debian Sarge. Daily backups with BackupPC started in 2004-03. Mail service added 2004-07. I set up an IPCop firewall in 2004-08 (upgrading from a LinkSys router). The server moved to its current host, carrot, in 2004-10. The old K6-III, redubbed rhubarb, took on the firewall role in 2005-05 (replacing an older Pentium that had been thrown out at my old job). Webmail, Galleries, Blogs, and traffic analysis followed later in 2005. The RAID paid off in the end of 2005 when a harddisk failed. Coupled with simultaneous motherboard and power supply failures this lead to some downtime but no data loss.

More information about the software running on the server can be deduced by browsing through all my notes on the wiki.

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