Tech news and updates about GeekISP, a Shared & VPS Hosting provider

27
May

Service Interruption – 5/27/12

By Dave|Uncategorized

We’re experiencing a service interruption currently related to a power overload in the datacenter. This began at roughly 9:30pm ET. As of about 10:45pm ET web services have been restored but we still need to redistribute some of the power load. Updates to follow. Update 11:05pm ET: Mail services should be back now. Post mortem [...]

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11
May

Minor interruption

By Dave|GeekISP

We had a few machines reboot just now. Still investigating… UPDATE 1 – 12:45pm ET – All services are restored. Investigation continuing. UPDATE 2 – 1:10pm ET – As best I can tell this was caused by a cascading power issue in the datacenter. I believe due to a batch task plus other normal activity [...]

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08
Apr

Major Outage – NFS server forced migration

By Dave|GeekISP, Tech

Outage estimated at approximately 6 hours, from Saturday 4/7 @ 7pm ET through 4/8 @ 1am ET. Power issues affecting our primary NFS server appeared to cause some sort of boot failure. Emergency NFS migration performed. All services restored, all data should be intact. More info to come. Update – 10:15am 4/8 – MySQL InnoDB [...]

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14
Mar

SquirrelMail Misbehaving

By Dave|GeekISP

A couple customers have written in this morning to report issues with SQMail. I’m looking at this now. UPDATE @10:25am ET – I found the cause – one of GeekISP’s firewalls rebooted last night, and the daemon startup sequence was such that haproxy, which is used to handle load balancing of some internal traffic, started [...]

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13
Mar

Webserver work this morning

By Dave|GeekISP

Just a quickie heads-up – I’m doing some work on the webservers this morning, so they may be a little slow until I’m done. Shouldn’t be more than 15-20 minutes, hopefully. EDIT – Took a little longer than expected (I had to remember that there is a crazy manual patch step required for libxml2, see [...]

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06
Feb

Monday Updates – PHP to 5.3.10

By Dave|GeekISP

Happy Monday folks… I’ll be upgrading GeekISP’s PHP install to 5.3.10 to patch a security vulnerability announced a few days ago. Expect a little bit of a slowdown as I take various backends out of service for the upgrade. I’ll try to handle everything as quickly as possible. PS – I obviously didn’t get to [...]

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