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

25
Jan

Shell server crash Jan 25 c. 9:45am ET

By Dave|GeekISP, Tech

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 [...]

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21
Jan

MySQL database moving to a new server

By Dave|GeekISP

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 [...]

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13
Jan

PHP Upgrade to 5.3.9

By Dave|GeekISP, Tech

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.

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02
Jan

Trac and SVN services moving to a new host

By Dave|GeekISP

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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08
Dec

SpamAssassin gone wild!

By Dave|GeekISP

It seems that lately SpamAssassin has had a bit too much fun marking mail as spam with the ‘BAYES_99′ rule. This seems to have started recently when the Bayesian spam DB was upgraded from MySQL 5.0 to 5.5. Exactly what went wrong… well I am still working on that. For now, Bayes processing is disabled [...]

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