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lprent - Date published:
5:09 pm, May 16th, 2009 - 2 comments
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There was an annoying outage in the site earlier for a few hours. The hosting site was investigating a performance issue on the server unrelated to The Standard, and took the Apache server offline for script generated HTML.
Thanks to all those who txt’ed, e-mailed, and skype’d to let me know of the problem. I was putting a post up at the time – so now I have to find if the post survived the experience.
Surprisingly, I found something else to do during the outage – the filibuster in parliament is actually fun to listen to.
The server will be getting hardware changes this evening starting at 10pm NZDT.
The site will be off line for some hours.
You don’t have a dedicated server??
Nope. The volumes are too large for a server off the main trunks. The requirements are too small to be bothered with maintaining own own server. This costs less than $20 per month and we have to have these little issues to put up with.