Site will be down for maintenance Sunday night
All: Sometime Sunday night (I’m not exactly sure when I’ll get around to this, but probably after 9PM Pacific time), I will be taking the org down for a little while for database maintenance, and one...
View ArticlePhase 2 of server move (site will be down for a bit…)
Two months ago when I started working on moving us to a new server, I had hoped to have everything done within a week. I spent about a week’s worth of effort on getting everything set up and installed,...
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…and we’re back!
Whew. That was fun (not!) My apologies for our outage for the last 5 days. Not that it was my fault, but I still feel bad about it. I know many of you have missed your “org fix” as one person wrote to...
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Minor outage — my bad!
Sorry for the unavailability this morning — turns out I (d’oh!) didn’t update the credit card on file at the hosting provider and they turned off the traffic. All fixed, paid in full, happiness again
View ArticleChat was down for half of Jan 1…
Sorry, as usual, I forgot to take the necessary steps to ensure the chat would keep working on January 1st… I think this is the 5th year in a row that I’ve managed to neglect that! Sorry, it’s all...
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.org hardware switch over MLK holiday… cross yer fingers!
I’m going to take another shot at moving the .org to the faster server over the holiday, probably starting Sunday night. Expect some downtime! You’ve been warned Thanks for your understanding! Ben
View ArticleSunday morning, time for a break :)
The org decided it needed a little nap this morning. Ok, well, actually, I upgraded some parts of the server software to keep up on the security and maintenance, and it borked the webserver such that...
View Article~1 hr downtime
Sorry for the downtime today — had to try and repair a piece of the database. While I was at it, I upgraded some other bits and pieces of the system software, which required a reboot… but we seem to be...
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Upcoming downtime for database maintenance
Heads-up, we’ll have a (hopefully!) short outage in the next 12-72 hours for database maintenance. I’m hoping to do it late tonight Pacific Time (i.e., around 11pm tonight) but it’s possible I might...
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If the elevator stops, punch a higher floor… oops, server crash!
OK, so the BET awards last night caused a pretty significant influx of additional traffic to prince.org. Once we got 3.5x the usual traffic, things started to go downhill quickly. We ran out of memory,...
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