February 13, 2008
Up. Down. Up. Down. Up.
Between the recent weather-related power outages, an underpowered (not necessarily uninterruptible) power supply, and an increasingly cranky server, email and web services for the Newted Community have been less than reliable this week. To all those community members that rely on Newted for their mail, I apologize for the unexpected downtime. I really wish it were possible to see these things coming, but they tend to sneak up behind you when you’re not looking and smack you upside the head. That being said, I am trying to address the server stability by clearing out a pile of older files to give the memory swap a bit more legroom (or is that headroom?). However, the reality of the situation is that this 9 year old Cobalt Qube may be ready for retirement. That being said, migrating existing users over to a newer server platform from the Qube will be neither simple nor quick (perhaps not even possible, except by manually adding hundreds of individual accounts). The good news is that everything appears to be running normally this morning.
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