Migration Was Broken

The new shiny server turned out to be a pile of poo and I had to revert everything back to the old server. The hardware was not set up correctly and the server technicians answer was ‘we will need to reload your server’… My response was ‘I don’t think so – I have 100 customers…

Just to clarify. We have no problem with people having multiple diaries, nor do we or will we require them to be linked. We couldn’t enforce such a policy anyway. The rules cover not talking about other diarists (as is already IN the terms and conditions, but is blatantly flouted), whether they are your own…

There seems to be a particular script on the system that is not behaving properly as every now and then a perl process is eating the whole CPU for breakfast. I’m trying to track down what it is, and will let you know. If anyone sees a particular part of the side that consistently fails…

Well, they said it should be today but it doesn’t look good, we haven’t heard anything yet about it so we’re just biding our time. So far we’ve found three other services on the net that are similar to what we are trying to achieve however most of them seem to have focused on the…

I’m just writing to let you know that we’re OK – in case anyone who knows us reads here. We still have a house, by the Grace of God. I can’t pretend to understand His plan, but for some reason He spared our house while others nearby burned to the ground. We’re running on generator…

Hi all, Yeah, of course, moving a server its gonna break… Back to the drawing board! I am looking into whats causing the extended crashes (particularly since Windows is supposed to restart it all!) and hope to have something sensible to report later today. Steve