nerdylorrin.net

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.

2008-12-22 Gallery, Wiki outage

Lorrin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:26:12 +0000

Another four months, another outage. Comcast was down for a couple hours, presumably due to snow. Gallery and wiki, which are hosted in the basement on carrot and tomato, were inaccessible.

There was also a gallery and wiki outage about two weeks ago due to an unexpected IP address change.

As usual, mail, blogs, and other websites were unaffected. They’re hosted on kiwi, which is located in a data center in Dallas.

2008-08-22 Gallery, Wiki outage

Lorrin — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:58:25 +0000

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!

2008-07-04 - 2008-07-12 Extended Gallery, Wiki outage

Lorrin — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:02:12 +0000

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!

2008-06-18 Gallery, Wiki outage

Lorrin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:31:45 +0000

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.

2008-06-16 Gallery, Wiki outage

Lorrin — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:39:50 +0000

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!

2008-05-24 Gallery Upgraded

Lorrin — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:57:54 +0000

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:

Photo auto-rotation based on camera sensors or on settings from other applications.
Dynamic albums: You can e.g. create an album based on a search for photos with certain keywords
Fixes a bug in handling images with no EXIF data
New module to send Ecards
WebDAV album maintenance

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

2008-01-21 Planned outage

Lorrin — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:22:30 +0000

RimuHosting is moving our main server, kiwi, to a different cabinet on Monday, January 21st @ 4 PM PST. Services will down for approximately half an hour.

The Gallery and Wiki are unaffected. Inbound email will be accepted but not delivered until the outage is over.

Update: Maintenance was delayed by 24 hours.

2007-11-04 Hiccups, memory upgrades

Lorrin — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:57:58 +0000

The main server, kiwi, now has a little more than twice the memory it used to. This should improve website responsiveness and put an end to the sporadic outages of the email spam filter. The upgrade involved a few reboots over the weekend.

2007-08-24 Gallery, Wiki outage

Lorrin — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:01:24 +0000

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…