Archive for December, 2007

One-Click Upgrades: phpBB, phpGedView, dotProject

Posted 7 months ago (December 21st, 2007 at 4:40 pm PST)

We’ve got a bit of an early Christmas (or late Chanukah) present for those of you running the above mentioned bits of web based software. In an afternoon flurry of productivity, phpBB has been upgraded to version 3.0 [Release Notes], phpGedView was bumped up to version 4.1.3 [Release Notes] and dotProject is now at [...]

system problems

Posted 7 months ago (December 20th, 2007 at 12:36 pm PST)

We pushed out a bit of code and it’s having an adverse effect on almost all of our servers. If your site is down now, we’re aware of the issue and are working hard to get everything back up ASAP. Please keep an eye on this status post, as we’ll update it as soon as [...]

Rails upgrade addendum

Posted 7 months ago (December 18th, 2007 at 3:32 pm PST)

As many of you noticed, there was a slight glitch when you tried to freeze your rails. You probably got an ugly error like:
no such file to load — /home/.blah/blah/blah/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer
Not very helpful! As it turns out, there’s a bug in rails 1.2.6 that causes this! Thankfully, it was a matter of just slightly adjusting one [...]

Dedicated Server Mail Upgrades

Posted 7 months ago (December 18th, 2007 at 12:36 am PST)

If you received an email last week about the mail service on your dedicated server being upgraded then you will be affected by this upgrade. If not then your upgrade will happen later this week and we will email you regarding the date and time of the upgrade. This upgrade should not cause more then [...]

Rails: The Revenge!

Posted 7 months ago (December 17th, 2007 at 4:02 pm PST)

Just when I thought it was safe to upgrade, another version appears!
I’m going to start upgrading our servers to Rails 2.0.2. This involves packaging, testing, and then slowly rolling it out. The jump is to a 2.x version from 1.2.6, so I’m going to take my time with this one to make sure nothing goes [...]

Annoying Network Issues

Posted 7 months, 1 week ago (December 15th, 2007 at 2:19 pm PST)

It appears as if we’re running into little flurries of bad connectivity on the network currently. Please know that we’re doing everything we can to level this back out. Hopefully it shouldn’t take too long to remedy, but we thought those of you seeing issues would appreciate the acknowledgement of a problem. [...]

Replacing hardware on Heracles

Posted 7 months, 1 week ago (December 12th, 2007 at 12:13 pm PST)

We are in the process of moving heracles to new hardware. The machine should be back online with the next 45 minutes. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Please check back for future updates.
UPDATE: The machine is back online. We will continue to actively monitor the stability. Again, we apologize for [...]

Control panel “status” section giving errors. (RESOLVED)

Posted 7 months, 1 week ago (December 11th, 2007 at 8:58 am PST)

First let me apologize for the inconvenience. The “disk usage”, “bandwidth usage” and “mySQL usage” sections in the control panel are giving errors at the moment. Our admins are currently working on the situation and hope to have it resolved soon.
Please check back here later for updates.
UPDATED: 12/11/2007 11:49 PST, looks like [...]

Mario server is down

Posted 7 months, 1 week ago (December 11th, 2007 at 6:52 am PST)

last night the Mario server experienced issues that caused it to need hardware replacement, we have our admin working on getting it moved over and up and running. Sorry for the inconvenience and keep checking for an update to this issue.
UPDATE: Ok our admin was able to get the Mario server back online, it is [...]

File server issue in the frisky cluster

Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago (December 9th, 2007 at 10:00 am PST)

One of the file servers in the frisky cluster is having performance issues which is effecting a small number of frisky cluster web servers, causing higher loads and some apaches to respond slow. A file server admin is working on the issue now. We are working to get this issue resolved as soon [...]