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It appears that entries by e-mail posting facility is experiencing some random crashes and causing posts not to be sent until the service is restarted. I shall look into what’s happening and give feedback as soon as I know more about what it’s up to. Apologies for the inconvenience. Steve. powered by performancing firefox

The AtomIC Server fell over at around 16:00 Finnish time (14:00 UK time or (I think) 09:00 New York time?) with a serious problem with the database. For some odd reason best known to itself, the mysql process decided it was no longer going to respond to anything. Even (for those in the UNIX know)…

Sorry for spamming you all, I meant to mention this in my last update 🙂 Another point that should be born in mind is that most of the adult entries that minors shouldn’t be exposed to (eg. the explicit/graphic ones) will generally cause a greater load on our server and thus increase the amount of…

I restarted the database only to discover it had eaten itself, or more specifically its access permissions. For a while it wouldn’t come up at all, and then when it did, none of the scripts could connect because the access control lists were gone… These are now restored so everything should be working, but if…

I’ve noticed a HUGE number of people have email addresses on other diarists notify lists which are no longer valid and are bouncing. The mailbox for the user who runs the webserver process (and is the sender of all notify mails) was over 160Meg when I returned to the UK!! To that end, I have…

That moving a server means moving IP addresses. Moving IP addresses of a nameserver means dealing with Network Solutions to get the host record changed. Dealing with Network Solutions is like selling your soul to the devil only MUCH MUCH more painful. So we transferred the domains to Easyspace 🙂 However, as a result, we…