All the work is done and we are happy and healthy on our new server, ready to start the next round of software upgrades.

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We switched database servers last night, and a config entry got lost somewhere, and as a result users couldn't post new blog entries or upload files.

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Our statistics database filled up.  This wasn't immediately obvious from the logs, and since it was due to a size limit being set too low rather than running out of server resources, it wasn't obvious from the state of the server.

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The server exploded.

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The first question to ask yourself is, are you a spammer?*

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As we do a little spring cleaning, get rid of the mothballs and the cobwebs, and - bunny!!

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We'll be taking a short outage at 1AM CDT this Sunday to swap out the drive that failed during last weekend's power outage.  Should only be about 15 minutes.

Update: Took a little longer than expected, but maintenance completed successfully.

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I was supposed to be in a conference session on hosting Python web applications right about now, but we had a drive failure, which caused a server reboot, which caused a lengthy filesystem check, and when that was done we tripped over a network configuration problem (unnoticed previously since the server hadn't been rebooted in nearly 18 months) and then found that some MySQL tables had been corrupted by the crash and needed to be repaired.

Oh, and the shared filesystem for user uploads was offline too, which made the blogs look a little spartan for a while.

Which has all been fixed now, so I hope to make some of the later conference sessions.

Sorry about the downtime folks, and enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Update: Turns out that the root cause was a power failure at our hosting company.  That triggered the drive failure and reboot the server and lead to an unpleasant morning here at mee.nu HQ.

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Wherever you are.

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The Grand Unified Minx Theory


The mee.nu User Domains


The Minx Components

(Reposted from an earlier entry on my personal blog.)

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