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Post subject: Server Downtime
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 09:29 PM
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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.
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Post subject: Server Downtime
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 08:24 AM
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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.
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Post subject: Server Downtime
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 08:29 AM
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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?
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Post subject: Server Downtime
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 08:43 AM
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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.
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Post subject: Server Downtime
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 09:01 AM
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Have the server hosts advised that they are aware of anything happening on the platform that they run the VM on?
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Post subject: Server Downtime
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 09:04 AM
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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.
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Post subject: Server Downtime
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:36 AM
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Still no idea what's causing it. I think it's apache though :\
A pain to configure, that program.
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