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Was down, now back! Thanks, Lifehacker!

April 6, 2010 in A Front Page Item, System Information | No comments

Thanks to an article I wrote being posted on Lifehacker, our server got mobbed by hoards of eager folks (over 2,000 hits in a couple hours – and still going) and collapsed.

With the quick work of Doug & Rabbitt, the site’s operation was tweaked and restored quickly. Within about 30 minutes, it was serving pages again. Thanks, guys, for getting it back together so fast.

Thanks, Lifehacker! I appreciate the link from your site and the chance to real-world load-test the server!

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Gallery Back Online!

December 1, 2009 in A Front Page Item, System Information | No comments

Gallery

After being offline for a long time, our Gallery is finally back online. Of course, since it was offline, it wasn’t being updated. Now that it’s back online, I will shortly dump into it a bunch of new pictures that have been stacking up (including some great new travel shots). Additionally, I tweaked the behavior of the top & side menus – now when you click “Gallery”, it takes you directly to the Gallery (instead of to an introductory page).

Thanks to Doug & Carl for diagnosing and fixing the problems, and thanks to the users that wrote to alert me that it was down.

Please let me know if you encounter any weirdness when using our Gallery.

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Awesome Graph of Operating Systems

September 23, 2009 in A Front Page Item, System Information | No comments

Saw this on GraphJam today. It’s brilliant. Simply brilliant.

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We're Back Online!

July 22, 2009 in A Front Page Item, System Information | No comments

Thanks to my buddy Doug who worked tirelessly to get my site migrated and nestled into his server stack, my site is back up and running properly.

Here’s what happened…

  1. I upgraded my Fedora Core 9 site to Fedora Core 10. This went smoothly.
  2. I upgraded my Fedora Core 10 site to Fedora Core 11 (it is not possible to upgrade directly from Fedora Core 9 to Fedora Core 11). This did not go smoothly. Something went wrong midway through the install which left my site in an unstable condition. Depending on where you looked, the server thought it was running FC10 in some spots and FC11 in others. Not good.
  3. Attempts to rebuild the server failed.
  4. Diagnosis proved that the hard drive in the server was on its last legs, so needed to be replaced.
  5. During this time, Doug re-issued his standing offer to host my site on his server, so I finally took him up on it.
  6. The transition to his server went fairly smoothly, though we’ve still got a couple things to work on including a theme issue to resolve and my RSS feeds.

Phew!

System Updates 2009-07-11

July 10, 2009 in A Front Page Item, System Information | No comments

This evening, I updated the server software from Fedora Core 9 to Fedora Core 10. The update went very well, with only one minor annoyance (mod_proxy) that was easily fixed. Total system downtime was about 50 minutes.

I am currently downloading all the updated software to bring my Fedora Core 10 to current status, then I will update it to Fedora Core 11.

I just noticed that WordPress 2.8.1 has been released from beta. I will install that after upgrading to Fedora Core 11.

Upgraded to WordPress 2.7

December 14, 2008 in A Front Page Item, System Information | No comments

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This morning, I upgraded the site to WordPress 2.7. For some reason, I felt anxious about this upgrade (since it involved a mandatory upgrade to my theme as well), but I needn’t have worried… With the exception of a couple plugin issues that were very quickly mended, the entire process went smoothly. System downtime was about 15 minutes.

Please let me know if you spot any weirdness while using this site.

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