Entries by Jannis

This is just a quick announcement that the "Who is using" page over at s9y.org has finally been updated. It is now a lot easier to submit a URL: Just type your blog's URL in a form field, add a title if you wish (if not, it will be autodetected), and you have your blog listed in an instant.

As a little bonus I have added a thumbnail-preview of each blog that is shown when you move the mouse over a link to a s9y blog. Go give it a try!

I hope you have fun with this, but if anything does not work as expected, please let me know :-)

After our server hardware went done some weeks ago, we had to put s9y.org onto a very tiny backup server in order to resume "normal" operations. Now, the new server is all set, and s9y.org has been moved over to it's new home today. The nameservers have been upgraded as well, but it can take "up to a few days" until your nameserver recognizes this change. If you enter "www.s9y.org" and are taken to "s9y.jayniz.de", it means your nameserver has not yet updated, but you can access all contents via s9y.jayniz.de as well.

Please tell me if you note any oddities with the new setups. For example, coWiki is using another url-scheme, but all old links should still be accessible.

Somebody who calls himself NN sent this in - I don't understand each word and unfortunately babelfish can't do OCR on images, but I still think the overall message is clear (at least after you clicked on the screenshot).

This goes out to the devs: Thanks, guys! :-)

After the DNS trouble we had last week, it seemed to be time for the hardware to take a break. The original s9y.org and supersized.org server melted last night. It's down: hardware failure.
Luckily, absynth of de-punkt webhosting, our provider, had a spare machine handy. I spent today migrating the nightly backups to this new server and setting it up.
So remember, that we're on a backup machine right now, some minor things might not work as expected. We'll have a brand new server by next week, and hopefully more hardware luck this time ;-)

Most of you have noticed the slight unavailibility of s9y.org between June 3rd and today. This was due to the fact that my old provider, the one where I registered s9y.org, stopped his business but at the same time did not stop being the admin-c of s9y.org. On June 3rd s9y.org expired, and the expiration-notice, warnings and reminders were sent into the great nowhere, as there was no provider responsible for s9y.org. All apologies to you guys, who couldn't download fresh s9y snapshots.

Thanks to a lot of Vitamin-B and efforts from the cool guys of InterNetX and De-Punkt, GPF and absynth, the domain s9y.org has been magically gone through an instant-recovery from it's PENDING DELETE state back to shiny availibility. Thanks, guys. As the domain is finally completely moved from the old provider everything should go much smoother now.

Blog on...

Last night the server started getting a little cranky. We are assuming there's something funky going on with the hardware (cpu? ram?) and working on it. The server is back right now, but don't rely on it too much for now...

I'll let you know about any news once I got 'em. Sorry for any inconvenience.