Archive for August, 2007

randy filer on the fritz!

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago (August 2nd, 2007 at 3:20 am PST)

The filer ’squeezer’ in the randy cluster has gone down and will be causing intermittent issues on machines in the randy cluster.
Our hardware team is looking into it right now and we will have an update for you shortly.
We apologize for any inconvenience!
Update: 3:27am - Squeezer is back online and kicking!

trans-am getting DDoSed

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago (August 2nd, 2007 at 12:14 am PST)

The server trans-am is under a heavy denial of service attack right now. Our network engineers are looking into it and we will have an update for you soon!
Thank you for your patience and we apologize for the inconvenience!
Update: 12:36pm PST: the ddos has been taken care of and trans-am is back in business! [...]

Moving milk onto new hardware

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago (August 1st, 2007 at 8:39 pm PST)

Webserver milk has been kernel panicking lately, and so we’re going to move it onto new hardware. This process should take less than an hour and cause only brief downtime for those customers hosted on milk.
Update: 8:44pm due to unforseen difficulties this is being delayed until 10pm or so.
Update: 11:46pm - James apparently forgot [...]