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Server outage - my bad!
vanderaj - April 15th, 2008 at 01:43 PM

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 - April 15th, 2008 at 02:02 PM

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. :tu:

vanderaj - April 15th, 2008 at 02:09 PM

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 - April 15th, 2008 at 02:22 PM

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

pod - April 15th, 2008 at 02:26 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by squizy
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. :tu:


Ditto:tu::D:yes:

1303Steve - April 15th, 2008 at 03:00 PM

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

matara - April 15th, 2008 at 03:09 PM

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 - April 15th, 2008 at 03:12 PM

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

ancientbugger - April 15th, 2008 at 03:32 PM

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:tu:

Pumba - April 15th, 2008 at 04:19 PM

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:rolleyes::spin::rolleyes:

LIFE IN THE LOW LANE - April 15th, 2008 at 04:27 PM

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....

dangerous - April 15th, 2008 at 06:15 PM

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

ztnoo - April 15th, 2008 at 07:27 PM

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