Category nuxx.net

Well, even though rowla.nuxx.net made it to an uptime of 500 days back on the 11th, that didn’t last. Today Waveform unexpectedly moved my box to their new data center, causing a bit of an unexpected outage. As you can see in the bandwidthd graph above there was a period of time during which the server was unreachable.

I was ssh’d in at the time talking to people on #llamasoft when things just up and went away. It seems that Waveform simply pulled the plug on the boxes and moved them. Thankfully mine came back up safely.

Hey everyone… My server at http://nuxx.net is down, and no, I don’t know why. I think Waveform is moving locations, but they didn’t notify me, so I’m just not sure what’s up. I have a support ticket open about it, but they haven’t replied yet. So, we’ll see… I hope I don’t have to move providers.

I’ll be upgrading some things on nuxx.net over the next few hours, so anything hosted there (including email, as SpamAssassin needs an upgrade) may be temporarily unavailable.

I’ll update this post once things are done.

So, earlier today I submitted my Lightsticks In The Toilet LJ Post and photo album (photo gallery retired) to the Make Blog. I had also submitted it to Digg sometime last night.

Well, it has been posted on the Make Blog, and the Digg link has really taken off. With a total of 5 fastcgi processes for myself (nuxx.net, et al) the box is sitting at a load of ~5 to ~10, and is handing out loads of data. Feel free to watch the bandwidth consumption here.

This is interesting. I’ve only had to deal with tremendous bandwidth load before (eg: hosting the SG videos, or original seed for Katrina photos), not something that actually loads the box.

I just moved the photos to nine per page (3×3) to cut down on the impact of each page load. We’ll see what happens, I guess…

I’ll be upgrading PHP on rowla.nuxx.net a bit later today, so the hosted website(s) will go down for a while.

To everyone who uses rowla.nuxx.net to some degree: This machine is going to be moved at some point within the next few weeks, hopefully within the next few days. The colocation provider I use is getting their new building / data center going, and I’m going to move in there sooner than later. Because of this I will have to switch to a new IP address and have the server down for a few hours while it is driven to the new building, but after that things should be fine. It should just come back up once turned on.

Email deliveries attempted while the server is off should be queued by the last-hop mail server and delivered after things come back online.

I’ll post more info (and more specific dates / times as I have them) here, but for now just know that it’ll be happening.

Ah, I’ve now done a write-up on nuxx.net. So, feel free to give it a read if you are curious what sort of things are running behind the scenes on the box which hosts my (and others) sites to… well… host things.