Server Downtime

Post subject: Server Downtime Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 09:29 PM

The server was down for a while tonight. Sorry about this, I'm told it was due to some problems with virtual memory management. I'm going to be tweaking the installed software on the server a bit so periods of downtime may be expected this Saturday (9th June) as I install/uninstall and configure things.

Post subject: Server Downtime Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 08:24 AM

Yep the server went down again a second ago. I moved forward some maintenance and upgraded Apache, MySQL et al so see if this improves things. The server appears to be getting hammered recently.

Will probably have to do a full reinstallation of server software, although I may try a reboot, so expect more downtime.

Post subject: Server Downtime Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 08:29 AM

Is the traffic that's coming to the server real stuff or is it "other" stuff.

What is the current traffic running at and what does it normally run at?

Odd questions I know - just be good to know if there is anything I can do to help. Is this hosted on a paid for server or is it done on a home system?

Post subject: Server Downtime Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 08:43 AM

Just had to reboot the server.

Not sure what's causing the memory problems, to be honest, I'm hoping it's not just the current... interest in the forums - at least if it's a DDOS I know I don't need to upgrade my package. I've rebooted in case it's a Windoze problem.

The server is a virtual private Windows 2003 Server with not amazing amounts of memory, hosted by SolarVPS on a 100MB connection at a datacentre in London somewhere.

Post subject: Server Downtime Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 09:01 AM

Have the server hosts advised that they are aware of anything happening on the platform that they run the VM on?

Post subject: Server Downtime Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 09:04 AM

It seems to have stopped now.

I've been tweaking some forum settings too. Clown is not the only site hosted on my VPS, but it is probably the most active one - and I've cut down the number of DB queries per page access to see if that helps.

Post subject: Server Downtime Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:36 AM

Still no idea what's causing it. I think it's apache though :\

A pain to configure, that program.