Server outage - my bad! · Aussieveedubbers

vanderaj Administrator a suffusion of yellow

3,130 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 15 Apr 2008, 1:43 pm

#640954

My bad.

The server restarted automatically during Saturday night, presumably to coincide with our hoster's network downtime I previous announced. This normally would not be a problem as the server is good to get going without my help - normally.

However, I was in the middle of a change that I was not yet ready to promote into production. Ironically, the change is to add real time monitoring (with paging and escalation!) so that soon, I would be immediately informed of such impending feats of doom.

Due to my fiddling, the web server's configuration files were inconsistent as I hadn't tested them at that stage, and thus Apache failed to start when the server rebooted.

Not good. My bad. I don't normally let such things happen.

The good news is that I *should* be notified of any such outages again in the future, even if they are the result of operator error!

thanks,
Andrew

squizy Thinking about another dub...maybe

4,082 posts · joined Dec 2002 · 15 Apr 2008, 2:02 pm

#640955

Andrew as if we'd complain. Considering you do this for nicks, knowing that you're going to be alerted in the future is great. Not having AVD means we just got in with other things. 👍

vanderaj Administrator a suffusion of yellow

3,130 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 15 Apr 2008, 2:09 pm

#640957

I couldn't imagine the withdrawal symptoms and shaking. People would have to go play with their VWs instead of coming to this site! 🙂

Dasdubber DAS Resto Haus

5,746 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 15 Apr 2008, 2:22 pm

#640960

Thanks for sorting out the problems Andrew - hopefully someone who is IT savvy can put their hands up to offer some assistance so it all doesn't fall on your shoulders each time there is a problem! I would help if I knew what I was doing 🙂
Al

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4,980 posts · joined Dec 2003 · 15 Apr 2008, 2:26 pm

#640961

squizy wrote:Andrew as if we'd complain. Considering you do this for nicks, knowing that you're going to be alerted in the future is great. Not having AVD means we just got in with other things. 👍

Ditto👍😀👍

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1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 15 Apr 2008, 3:00 pm

#640967

Hi

Thanks for all the great work. I didn't know I was addicted until I couldn't log on for a few day, the family and the VWs got some more attention though.

Steve

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1,342 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 15 Apr 2008, 3:09 pm

#640968

Andrew, I'm happy to setup a cron job to do a curl test to the forum page from my hosting server to check its working, and if not send an email/sms to you if that helps?

Cheers

Steve

NUMNUTS Learner Dubber

15 posts · joined Apr 2008 · 15 Apr 2008, 3:12 pm

#640969

I thought it was my computer ! was about to take a shotgun to it !

ancientbugger Custom Title Time!

1,986 posts · joined Mar 2004 · 15 Apr 2008, 3:32 pm

#640974

I'm with NUMNUTS, and how can Squizy be so complacent about it!!? Andrew this cannot happen again, do you realise the stress you've put my family through?! Seiously though I'm glad it's back👍

Pumba Veteran Volks Folk

2,138 posts · joined Jan 2007 · 15 Apr 2008, 4:19 pm

#640984

I had nothing else to do than listen to the wife and pretend i was interested,I dont know what i will do if it happens again🙄😵‍💫🙄

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2,534 posts · joined Mar 2007 · 15 Apr 2008, 4:27 pm

#640987

3 whole days is just torture!!!! Had to keep looking at other car forums although somebody on cal look.com broadcast the Bug In to a site which meant those who didn't go got to watch the racing live!! Thanks to dak a tak for the tip off!! Kinda filled the void of this site being down....

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5,901 posts · joined Jan 2005 · 15 Apr 2008, 6:15 pm

#641012

Ahhhh.
Thanks Andrew.
That's better.
Ahhhh.

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ztnoo Insano Dub Head

730 posts · joined Aug 2007 · 15 Apr 2008, 7:27 pm

#641028

Thanks Andrew for fixing the problem(s).
It was a long weekend here in Indiana.
Glad the site is back.
👍
Regards,
Steve

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