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I’ll be moving the servers rhubarb, carrot, and tomato back down to the basement today (basement renovation is nearly done!). Consequently the Gallery and Wiki will be down for a few hours.
Mail, blogs, and other websites will be unaffected. They’re hosted on kiwi, which is located in a data center in Dallas.
Update 7:35 p.m. PDT: Back online!
While we were out of town a power loss took down the gallery and wiki. They’re on UPSes but apparently not big enough ones!
A disk failure crashed carrot around 6:00 PDT. Everything is back up as of 16:30 PDT and the RAID array is rebuilding in the background.
I’ll be moving the servers rhubarb, carrot, and tomato today (basement renovation!). Consequently the Gallery and Wiki will be down for a few hours.
Mail, blogs, and other websites will be unaffected. They’re hosted on kiwi, which is located in a data center in Dallas.
Update 1:30 PDT: Move complete!
Gallery has been migrated to tomato, carrot’s eventual replacement. (They both live in the basement here in Seattle). Tomato’s running Ubuntu 8.04 with Gallery 2.2. Exciting new features include:
Let me know if you notice anything that didn’t migrate correctly.
Gallery and Wiki were down for ~ 10 hours. The usual drill: Comcast changed my IP address and everything hosted in the basement became inaccessible. I didn’t notice right away because I had forgotten to update the the health checks to specifically test the Gallery and Wiki now that they’re hosted separately from everything else. Then again, Esmae keeps us so busy I probably wouldn’t have noticed the alert emails pouring in…
On July 25th rhubarb, the firewall machine in the basement, had a spectacular hard disk crash. It sounded like a cat fight and startled us out of bed! 
Rhubarb kept routing traffic, so I was lazy and didn’t get around to rebuilding on a new disk until today. Carrot, which hosts the Gallery and the Wiki, was inaccessible during rhubarb’s rebuild. Kiwi, which hosts everything else and lives in a data center in Texas, was unaffected.
The gap in the traffic graph below reflects the time during which rhubarb had no working hard disk and couldn’t record log files. If you had been attempting to hack in to my network, that would have been a good time to do so surreptitiously!
On May 16th I set up a /robots.txt file which instructs search engines not to index the Gallery (as well as some miscellaneous other pages). This has effectively dropped the Gallery out of search results as far as I can tell.
My motivation was to save bandwidth. I had mixed feelings about all the Gallery photos being so easily locatable. Now I have mixed feelings about them being so hard to find!
If you prefer to have your Gallery pages indexed by search engines, let me know and we’ll work something out.
If you have other nerdylorrin.net content you’d like to not let be indexed, I can add it to the list. But be aware that while search engines do honor /robots.txt, this should not be seen as a way of making anything private. In fact, one way to look for interesting things on a website is to open up the robots.txt file for a list of things not to look at!
