Server is back up. In short, I was using so much bandwidth that Waveform flipped my link back to 10Mb in an effort to cap bandwidth, then when that remained wholly saturated (nice to know that the to-internet link can saturate that, eh?) they turned off the port.
See here for a graph of it all: https://secure.nuxx.net/bandwidthd
Also, my site, any I host, and email is down right now. I’m upgrading MySQL, so it’s not currently running, making things which are backed by it not work.
Email is still coming in, it’s just being queued up. Once MySQL is back up things should be back to normal.
UPDATE @ 09:43 EST: MySQL upgrade done. Email and sites working again. Time to do the PHP upgrade, which will break all websites for a while. Sorry.
UPDATE @ 11:16 EST: All updates complete. Everything should be back to normal. Let me know if it isn’t.
Now a page about the 9090 is up.
I’m also beginning to wish that LJ supported MediaWiki markup. It’s so easy it just sort of flows out of my fingers. Like blood. Only less messy. Usefulness is arguable, though.
UPDATE: Honda / Acura Music Link (Technical) stuff has been moved from dingleberrypie.com, too.
Ah, I finally got around to writing an entry on nuxx.net about the PAiA FatMan Plus. That is, the PAiA FatMan which I rebuilt (and added to) earlier in the year.
Now, just a few more articles to write… the iSight Tripod Adapter, moving the dingleberrypie.com info about Honda electronics in, and a few other things…
Ahh. I finally took the time to create an entry on my site for info about the x0xb0x.
My goal is to eventually list all the background info on projects which I would normally post just to LiveJournal on the site itself, that way the information is more readily accessable. Hopefully within the next few days I’ll finally get information about the PAiA FatMan Rebuild (aka PAiA FatMan Plus) (photo gallery retired), the iPod installation in my car (photo gallery retired), the iSight Tripod Adapter (photo gallery retired), the cheap lighting rig (photo gallery retired), and maybe a few other things.
Now I’m going to head home and (hopefully) work on the P3 (photo gallery retired) some more, confirm that the board for that Casio SK-1 MIDI input fits in the enclosure, and… oh yeah. Eat dinner.
Back in 2003 I went on a cruise in Alaska. Well, while I was there I wrote a journal of whatever happened to be going through my head. Since moving to the new site format I’ve neglected to post it. Until today.
Here it is, if you’d like to see it… I may still add some more photos, but for now I’m happy with it:
I know I should be in bed, but I just made a change to my MediaWiki install which is very important. See, it’s my understanding that Google doesn’t like it very much if you are displaying AdSense ads on non-content pages.
Since MediaWiki has lots of these which I regularly use, I don’t want to upset Google by inadvertently serving myself a bunch of ads which are on these non-content pages.
The solution? Easy. Just don’t show ads on pages for users who are logged in. Since I’m using MediaWiki as a CMS, I’m the only person who will ever be logged in. So, to solve my problem, I wrapped the includes for the ad files in this:
<?php if($this->data['loggedin']!=1) { ?>
...
<?php } ?>
I know this is really basic, but I imagine others may want to know about it, so I’m documenting it here.
Ah. I finally moved a big part of my old website over: The Recipes
All the recipes I had posted before have been republished under the Recipes section of the new site. These recipes include:
Appetizers
· Katester’s Crack Dip
· HummusBreads
· Rosemary Sea Salt Bread
· White Bread (Bread Maker)Beers
· California Style Imperial Pale Ale
· Golden AleBeverages
· Honey Lemon Ginger TeaEntrees
· Plain Old Omelet
· Roasted Corn on the Cob
· Veggie Chili #1Baked Goods
· Chocolate, Toasted Hazelnut, and Almond Biscotti
· Dried Cherry and Almond Biscotti
· Everything But The Kitchen Sink Cookies
· Ginger and Spice Cookies
· The Chewy (Chocolate Chip Cookies)
· Pumpkin Cheese Coffee Cake
· Traditional Chocolate Chip Cookies
· Triple The Ginger CookiesOther
· Emeril’s Essence Creole Seasoning
· Herb Dipping Oil
· Honey Cinnamon Butter
Now I’m working on moving the journal I wrote while on my 2003 trip to Alaska into MediaWiki. It will probably take another 20 minutes at most, if I could just get up the will to do it.
Yay. All websites which I am going to continue to host and for whom the owners have contacted me have been moved to the new server.
Additionally, plans are in place to move all email over.
If things go as I’m hoping they will, I’ll have the server powered down this weekend. It’s too bad that I’m going to be wasting half a month of hosting fees with Waveform, but such is life, I guess.
I guess it’ll be back to my more ‘normal’ projects soon. :D
Things are progressing well with the server move. Except for email.
I’m having big problems with DreamHost’s email. I set up users and things just seem to never finish getting set up.
I’m not sure what’s going on yet… Hopefully tomorrow there will be someone who can explain to be what’s wrong and what is being done to fix it.
< sigh >
This is why I ran my own server before. Because if something was fucked up, it was my fault and I could only blame myself if things weren’t working right.
Option ‘B’ out of this whole thing is to drop ~$1400 on a new server and shuffle everything over to it. But then I’d have the same headaches as before.