Shell server crash – 1/27 c. 4:45pm ET
Twice in one week… fun times. It’s been back now for a bit, and I’m continuing to investigate the cause and any possible fixes.
Continue Reading →Twice in one week… fun times. It’s been back now for a bit, and I’m continuing to investigate the cause and any possible fixes.
Continue Reading →Well that was quick… we just had our first crash with the shell server since the upgrade to OpenBSD 5.0. This one was different from prior crashes under 4.7. I’m still investigating the issue in the hopes of uncovering a fix. The machine is back up and working properly again – total downtime was around [...]
Continue Reading →Just a quickie heads-up: I’ll be moving GeekISP’s MySQL database to a new host fairly soon. This migration will bring us up to a more recent version of MySQL, but we’re staying on the 5.0 series for now. The new box has a lot more RAM and a lot more CPU cores, so it should [...]
Continue Reading →I’m planning to bring the main OpenBSD shell server up to date this Sunday morning at around 10 or 11am ET. This will bring us from OpenBSD 4.7 to 5.0 and hopefully will resolve some of the sporadic crashes we’ve seen on this server. The upgrade is expected to take roughly an hour, with an [...]
Continue Reading →I did the upgrade this morning from about 9:45am until 10:45am ET due to security announcements in a PHP extension we use. Things were a little chunky through that time, but should be back to normal now. Sorry if this caused any inconvenience.
Continue Reading →After the recent migration of Trac and SVN services at GeekISP, I had hoped that the new version we moved to (0.12.x) would consume a little bit less memory than in the prior 0.11.x deployment. Not so – in fact, memory usage seemed to increase, and rapidly. Sadly Google doesn’t provide a ton of helpful [...]
Continue Reading →http://wordpress.org/news/2012/01/wordpress-3-3-1/ Another day, another WordPress update. Be sure to update your blogs to keep yourself protected!
Continue Reading →Happy New Year! I’m moving Trac & SVN services off to a VM dedicated to the task (previously the shell server was doing double-duty and helping out here). In the process Trac is getting upgraded to 0.12 and generally getting more resources allocated so it can be a better experience for our heavy users. You’ll [...]
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