Archive for the 'System Changes' Category

Spunky and Central Move

Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago (March 21st, 2008 at 7:50 pm PST)

We’re about to begin to move the spunky cluster and our central machines. We’ll be taking down servers soon, but our status site, of course, will remain up and running.
Again, we’ll try to keep this move quick and painless as we possibly can, and we apologize for the inconvenience.
For more details on this, see the […]

FastCGI Environment Changes for Rails - Updated

Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago (March 14th, 2008 at 2:05 pm PST)

Recently we’ve made changes to FastCGI to disallow any environment except for Production when using Rails. This was brought on by some issues with the Development environment causing the quality of service to degrade. If you need to run your application in Development mode, please use your local machine for this. If you […]

LAX Networking upgrade

Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago (March 10th, 2008 at 11:54 am PST)

On Wednesday, March 12, starting at 10PM we need to do a quick network migration. We are moving from one router to a newer, larger router. This will hopefully solve a problem we are having with load balancing across our links back to our downtown datacenter. Cisco isn’t sure what is causing it, and we […]

Blingy file server upgrade

Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago (March 10th, 2008 at 9:52 am PST)

On Wednesday night, March 12, 2008 starting at 10:00pm Pacific time, we will be performing a major OS upgrade on the file server that handles the entire blingy cluster. This upgrade is at the direct recommendation of BlueArc to hopefully resolve periodic slowdown issues and other quirks of the system. The estimated downtime by the […]

Randy cluster move

Posted 3 months, 1 week ago (January 26th, 2008 at 9:45 am PST)

Due to continued space and power constraints in our primary data center, we will be moving the “randy” cluster to one of our newer data centers. This move will begin Friday, February 8, at 10PM PST, and is expected to last up to 8 hours, until Saturday, February 9, 6AM PST. All web […]

New php4 packages

Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago (January 16th, 2008 at 12:21 pm PST)

In order to fix a couple of bugs with PHPMotion and to fix a couple of security flaws, we’re slowly rolling out new PHP4 packages to all servers. The changes are fairly minor, containing only a minor version bump and a fix to the binary installed to /usr/local/bin/php (it had previously been the CGI […]

Panel downtime

Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago (December 27th, 2007 at 3:11 am PST)

Next Thursday morning, we will be performing some maintenance on one of the database servers which powers our Web Panel. This requires us take the Panel off line. The downtime window will begin at 2:00am PST Jan 3, and extend for two hours, until 4:00am PST Jan 3. Expected downtime within this […]

Rails upgrade addendum

Posted 4 months, 3 weeks 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 4 months, 3 weeks 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 4 months, 3 weeks 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 […]