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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.

2010-06-14 Gallery Outage

Lorrin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:22:36 +0000

It looks to me like Dreamhost did an upgrade that broke my PHP installation. Gallery was returning HTTP 500 errors from 9 am to 11 pm PDT. Fixed.

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.

2009-08-07 Gallery Upgraded

Lorrin — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:38:30 +0000

Gallery has been migrated from Tomato (who lives in our basement) to Dreamhost. I’ve also upgraded to Gallery 2.3. The most exciting update in this release is a much improved Slideshow feature. I’ve also installed a few more themes to choose from. Floatrix was available before but I hadn’t tried it; it seems like an improvement over the usual Matrix theme.

Let me know if you notice anything that didn’t migrate correctly.

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.