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jema
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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 05 10:14 am Post subject: Short outage this morning

Sorry about the short outage. I have enquired of our hosts what the reason was?

I am also making enquiries about getting a semi dedicated server from them, though this may not be quite affordable as yet.

Actually typcial of f5hosting, I have just had a reply to say it was a rack power problem. f5hosting are very fast on support

they also say that the server has been up constantly apart from this, and so other brief outages a few people have reported are probably down to the usual isp/routing type issues we all see now and again on the net.

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jema
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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 05 10:28 am Post subject:
Another reply from f5 says that the server had been up for 100 days, but with the odd minute or so of outage when some processes had to be rebooted. This fits in with what I have seen. jema

jema
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 05 3:53 pm Post subject:

Quote:

There is a bug in PHP 4.3.10 (which is necessary for security) which causes load spikes. There is nothing we can do about this until they release 4.3.11. There is a fix in CVS, but we can't run a CVS snapshot on a production server.

I also have a ticket in with the NOC. There was a problem with the power outlet for Pluto Saturday night. They said they fixed it, but the server has gone down and come up on it's own in the middle of the night each of the last two nights. I'm having them check out the power outlet again.

Michael Everhart
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For middle of the night, read morning time for us.

jema

tahir

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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 05 3:56 pm Post subject:
Well that's a bugger isn't it?

jema
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 05 4:00 pm Post subject:
But it is explained and will therefore be fixed. I am much happier knowing the score jema

tahir

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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 05 4:01 pm Post subject:
Yup

jema
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 05 4:03 pm Post subject:
I would guess though that "check out the power outlet" may well mean we take another dive jema

tahir

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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 05 4:22 pm Post subject:
My thoughts exactly

sean
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 05 4:23 pm Post subject:
Maybe the cleaner unplugs it

tahir

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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 05 4:24 pm Post subject:
For the hoover?

jema
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 05 4:26 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Maybe the cleaner unplugs it

Mike claims the servers are in a dedicated data centre, but I suspect him claim to be a middle aged network engineer are a lie, and the server is in his bedroom and gets unplugged when his mum does the vaccuming

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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 05 7:12 am Post subject:
I see we were down again a couple of hours ago. Touch wood that was the power being sorted. jema

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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 05 9:56 am Post subject:
And we are showing as being up for 10 hours running, so there was another glith though I missed it. jema

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