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2012-01-29 13:45 (PST) Outage

Lorrin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:20:04 +0000

Kiwi (hosting everything except the Gallery) was down for an hour due to RAID issues on the host machine. Alas, for a while now MySQL hasn’t been starting automatically on reboot. I forgot about this and therefore WordPress was out of commission for two days. Mea Culpa. I have now finally fixed the MySQL configuration so it should be able to start automatically again.

2011-04-30 Web, mail outage

Lorrin — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 08:30:20 +0000

Подарък иконаикониKiwi (web presence other than Gallery; email) moved to new hardware in the RimuHosting Dallas data center. Outage was 12:51 – 1:24 am Pacific time. IP addresses changed from 72.249.17.232 to 74.50.48.111.

In unrelated news, I’ve taken down the public nerdylorrin.net wiki. It turns out not many people were excited about poking around my notes.

2010-08-01 Web, mail outage

Lorrin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 04:37:07 +0000

Kiwi ran completely out of memory and crashed hard just before noon (PDT) today. Back up around 9:15 pm (PDT).

Gallery, wiki unaffected (they run on different servers).

Update 2010-08-06:

I’ve belatedly taken some stops to reduce memory usage. Spamassassin and Apache will now fork fewer child processes, which will hopefully keep things under control.

2010-05-08 Kiwi upgraded

Lorrin — Fri, 21 May 2010 05:06:05 +0000

(belated notification)

Two weekends ago I upgraded kiwi to the latest Ubuntu release. I think the only visible effect is a major update to the WordPress administrative interface. For those of you using webmail (oh wait, that’s no one outside of this house) the upgrade paves the way major updates there as well. Blogs were down for a couple hours, everything else for a few minutes.

2010-02-26 Web, Mail outage

Lorrin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:52:19 +0000

Kiwi ran out of disk space and memory (perhaps running out of disk space resulted in no room for the swap file to grow?) around 1 am PST this morning. Upgraded both and brought back online around 6:45pm PST.

Web sites (except Gallery and Wiki) and mail were down. Everything should be back to normal now.

2009-10-09 Web outage

Lorrin — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:04:41 +0000

Module misconfiguration on kiwi brought Apache down from 9:15 – 11:00 PM (PST). Web sites (except Gallery and Wiki) were down. Everything should be back to normal now.

2009-08-21 Web outage

Lorrin — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:04:28 +0000

An upgrade on kiwi didn’t go as smoothly as one might hope. Web sites (except Gallery and Wiki) were down starting around 9 pm PST. Blogs in particular were down for about three hours. Everything should be back to normal now.

2009-03-27 Web, mail outages

Lorrin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:16:03 +0000

Websites (other than wiki and gallery) and mail were out a few hours this evening (approx 4:00 – 7:15 p.m. PDT ). They’re hosted on kiwi, which locked up and needed to be restarted. Unlike the December outage, this time it was just kiwi and not the parent Xen host. Root cause unclear. Spam Assassin was churning through a bunch of spam at the time, but that could be a random correlation.

2008-12-24 Web, mail outages

Lorrin — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:09:19 +0000

Websites (other than wiki and gallery) and mail were out a couple times this afternoon. The parent Xen host crashed twice and was rebooted by RimuHosting. Sigh. Hopefully it’ll stay up this time.

Update 12-25: I must have jinxed it. Host continued to have issues and was out overnight. (Sleigh riding with Santa?) Seems to be back up now after a Xen upgrade.

WordPress upgraded

Lorrin — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:09:14 +0000

I’ve upgraded WordPress, the software which runs the blogs, from 2.0 to 2.2. The visual editor is improved in many ways:

built-in spell-checking
tabs for flipping between Visual and Code views

However, you may find that it is disabled by default! To enable, go to Users -> Your Profile and select Use the visual editor when writing.

Other enhancements include auto-saving of posts while you edit them, better performance, and improved comment spam filtering.

As always, please let me know if you encounter any problems.