Entries by Jannis

The nightly snapshot versions of the serendipity development branch are back (for good)! Sing along!

Update, July 2nd: The Server is online again!

Hey folks,

as usual when I post here, it's kinda bad news. As you may have noticed, the main server running s9y.org and board.s9y.org went down a couple of hours ago. Since engineers at the noc are expensive on weekends (200€/h), it won't come back until monday. blog.s9y.org is hosted at supersized.org and not affected (obviously). But don't worry, another server is set up and s9y.org and board.s9y.org will be transferred over to that one asap and things should run a lot smoother than in the past.

For those of you who didn't upgrade yet, here are temporary downloads for the current versions:

• s9y-1.2beta2
• s9y-1.1.3

Update: The power adapter died and has been replaced.

Chris just called to inform me that the server has been repaired and all services should be back to normal. I am writing this with my cellphone because i'm on the autobahn, driving home to Berlin. So I'll keep this short!

For those of you who haven't seen the s9y.org main site since yesterday, we had a hardware failure in the server that was running the s9y.org wiki. Most likely the power adapter stopped working, a new one is on the way and will hopefully be installed tomorrow. If it doesn't, I will start setting up a "read only" interim site with backup data, because it's not very likely that Santa is going to install a new power adapter, so it could take a while until the original server is back in place. But don't forget, it's "only" the Wiki and the board that are down. The other parts of the s9y.org run on different servers, so you can still use:

• Sourceforge (Project downloads)
• Spartacus (Plugin repository)

Thanks go out to these people, who have offered to donate server power to the s9y.org project (If you're one of them and haven't heard from me: Don't hate, I have happily read your email and will reply as soon as I can):

• Jan Albrecht
• Frédéric Huet
• Robert Hayes
• Andrew Kroenert
• Zac Garret

I'll keep you up to date, sorry for everything.

UPDATE: It turned out the defective part was the CPU fan, a new one is on it's way and will be installed tomorrow, Friday 22nd 2006 - what a nice birthday present for me ;-)  Also, I have received a lot of emails of people/companies offering backup server sponsorships, I'll let you know when the talks have finished and a deciscion has been made.

The nice folks of AOE media GmbH offered to sponsor the s9y project with another dedicated server, which arrived today. I spent the day installing the base system, setting up mysql replication through a vpn between the two servers, and stuff like that. So for those of you who noticed a downtime today, it was a planned one (and also un-announced ;-), that I used to copy a snapshot of the s9y.org and supersized.org databases over to the new server. I hope it didn't cause too much trouble for you, but this made future work/load-distribution over the servers a lot easier. All the s9y.org-webserver-responsiveness-jazz of the last months should ease up a little over the next few months. Finally ;)

It's pretty hot in germany today with temperatures above 30°C and  it appears that either this server's cooling system is not strong enough or that the air conditioning at our hosting provider is at it's limit. Therefore the CPU speed has automatically been lowered to avoid hardware failure. So if things feel slow or the server explodes soon: You have been warned ;-)