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Just a quick note for anyone who cares, the database server has been running on what the authors called a Gamma release. That is, it was mostly stable but they wanted to make absolutely sure before calling it stable… The latest release, which is now installed on the DearDiary server, is now the latest and…

Hahah! The problem is/was due to the Last 10 Updated Diaries query which was run at least every 2 minutes (or more if it happened to take too long to run and someone hit reload). For some reason it suddenly blew up in the last few days to the point where MySQL could no longer…

Apologies for the serious downtime thats been experienced today, and yesterday. It seems that a bug in the kernel, due to our compiler and perhaps the options supplied to it, gradually consumed more and more memory until the machine ran out and fell over. As a result things would have gradually got slower and slower,…

I get to make the negative announcements on here all too frequently 🙂 Still, it’s not all that negative so don’t panic 🙂 We suffered a roughly two and a half to three hour downtime today, in US time this would have been from around 14.30 until around 17.30 (very much ‘ish’). Upon us discovering…

Hi guys, Thanks for all your kind words and suggestions… Given the fairly obvious interest, we will be offering some hosting packages fairly shortly – details need to be finalised just now and I need to get the Control Panel application up and running so that we can easily add (and keep track of –…

OK, so DD… developer diary hasn’t been updated in ages. Well now I’m updating it because there’s lots happening with Dear Diary… and someone, somewhere might want to read whats going on before things are announced… There’s been a lot happening since the last entry posted by Matt back on the 16th October… Wow, that…