Hey everyone, I just flopped ns1.nuxx.net from it’s old home at 216.29.181.213 to it’s new home at 204.11.33.41. There should be nothing that you need to change, but if you are running into any problems accessing any of the sites that I host, please let me know. Thanks!
Hey everyone… It looks like I’m going to be installing rez.nuxx.net in the colocation facility tomorrow. I’ll have just under a week to move things over from the current server, bornslippy.nuxx.net.
So, if I host stuff for you, you should pay attention to this. In short, if you have a message board, photo gallery, or anything which ties uses the database (MySQL) there is a good chance that there will be some reconfiguring needed in order to get things back in order. This is because I’m changing around the paths to where data is stored.
Additionally, there is likely to be some downtime while websites, databases, email, and other such things are moved.
I will be going through the sites one at a time in an attempt to ensure that everything is running smoothly. If you find that something isn’t working right, please contact me via AIM or telephone so that we can sort it out.
There should be no loss of data — be it email, web, or in a database — and I’m going to try to make things go as smoothly as possible, but there could be some bumps. So, again, if things arne’t working quite right, please let me know and we can sort it out.
Also, I’ll post updates here as things get moved over. As long as your DNS points to ns1.nuxx.net and ns2.nuxx.net everything should transition smoothly.
So, keep an eye out and hopefully things will be running even better by this time next week.
Well, all I seem to post about lately is beer. Thinking about it, for some reason I haven’t been working on much lately besides making beer and my new webserver. Oh, and spending time with
Anyway, the sixth beer, a modified golden ale, has been bottled. Finally. This is the one that I thought was a bit too sweet and thick, so I added an extra yeast to it. Well, that seems to have done the job. I added 125g of corn sugar (in 2 cups of water) to it today and bottled it. Now it’s down in the basement waiting for it to age…
And now I’m going to relax. I feel really tired for some reason. :(
Oh, if you’re curious how the berry ale is coming along, take a look at the following two links. In short, it’s looking rather interesting, and it is clearly continuing to ferment: 1 · 2
Well, more progress on the Wheat Berry Ale that I’ve been working on. When I got home after work today it seemed that the fermentation had progressed to the point where I could add the berries. This, however, isn’t quite as simple as dumping them in, because they will ferment more, causing more krausen, and I need to get the beer off of the trub (oil / yeast / hops gunk left in the carboy). So, first I had to first rack (transfer) the beer to a 5 gallon carboy and set it aside. Then I washed and sanitized the inside of the 6.5 gallon carboy, which due to the incredible amounts of gunk inside was no simple task.
Then it was time to take the thawed berries (which had been previously frozen to -15°F and were thusly frozen quite solid) and add them to the carboy. After getting getting the berries into the carboy I then had to simply rack the beer back on to the berries and give it a gentle stir.
After putting the carboy to ferment one could see berry chunks floating in the beer along with a settling layer of a whiteish fluff. This became even more apparent after it sat for a few minutes.
(And that has been another link-er-iffic post, this time made with context-appropriate links instead of bullet points. Oh, and I forgot that I snapped this, and I guess it came out decent: a picture of me from when I was grinding metal to make the power supply bracket for the forthcoming rez.nuxx.net.)
Well, since installing the new power supply on Friday night I’ve taken rez.nuxx.net and wiped it clean and reinstalled the OS. I wanted to be sure that any potential disk corruption was completely gone, so I also completely rebuilt all the arrays.
Last night I reinstalled 5.4-RELEASE, build both world and a new kernel, slightly optimized and targeted to the CPUs. All seems to be running nicely. I’m able to sync the 18GB or so of website data to it with no problems, all seems good.
Tonight I’ll shove it back in the rack to test it headless, and hopefully get a bunch of the other needed things (apache2, mysql, etc) installed and locked down.
This makes me happy… Maybe I will actually get it to the colo around the first of the month. I would shoot for Friday, but I’m hoping to go out of town this weekend, so that wouldn’t be the best idea.
Oh, and remember, if I host you it’s your responsibility to understand when server outages will be. All this gets posted to my LJ… I hope I don’t sound too bitchy, but this is free hosting, and while I shoot for lots of uptime, I don’t guarantee it. I don’t anticipate any problems, but I prefer not to fight with people over what’s essentially a gift of free hosting.
This is weird. I heard a POP-tinkle-tinkle-tinkle sound over the music, and figured I should go to investigate. I went downstairs and the little red cap had blow off the airlock of the fermenter and it was sitting next to the carboy.
Interestingly, the vodka in the airlock was still pure, and there was only a little yeast stuck in the bottom tube.
I’m thinking what happened was that the base of the airlock clogged, it built up a lot of pressure, and when that raced through the cap popped off the airlock and hit the ceiling, which is what I heard.
I’m just glad I caught it now, instead of tomorrow when it completely clogged, giving the basement a yeast and beer shower.
So, to make a long story short, I switched back to a blowoff hose (note that it’s now clean). I had gone to the airlock from the blowoff tube earlier this evening, as I thought the ferment was slowing down. I guess it wasn’t…
Well, I’ll definitely be leaving this as-is for the next few days.
This yeast really is odd… I’ve never seen any do this. Oh, also, I tasted some of the yeast that got stuck in the airlock, and it’s a really, weird, interesting, trappist-ale flavor with the texture of thin yogurt. Almost like melty frozen yogurt, but sour. Sorta neat…
(For some reason I’m not interested in posting the pictures themselves to LJ tonight.)
This is what I made to hopefully correct the problems with the new webserver, rez.nuxx.net. It allows me to mount a spare 2U power supply inside of a normal ATX power supply space in my mid-tower server case.
I don’t mean to brag, but I personally think it came out pretty damn good. After mounting everything, this is how it came out. In doing this I ended up moving the fan guard and mains power connector to the outside of the case. Personally, I think it came out pretty good.
As can be seen here, there is also a good bit of room now, plenty of space for the bundling of the cables. Additionally, here is the first shot of the inside of the case, parts installed. This may change around a bit before I install it in the colo facility, but it’s the exact hardware config I hope to use.
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(Click each for larger versions…)
So this morning I went down to check on the beer, and what did I find? Somehow this beer began fermenting as aggressively as the Rochefort 10 Clone in around 9-10 hours. It’s already pushing a solid stream of krausen out of the airlock into the blowoff bucket.
This yeast, WLP530, is really very interesting. For a beer with half the sugars of the Rochefort 10 clone it’s fermenting just as aggressively. Just as as was seen in the starter, once it gets going, it really gets going.
I wonder how long it’ll be before I can put the beer on the berries. I’m really looking forward to that, not least of which because the carboy will probably be swirling with all sorts of fruity lumpyness, and hopefully smelling rather good.
Well, the yeast is pitched and the start of the berry ale is fermenting.
For the record, I saw the first bubble rise from the blowoff tube at right about midnight while I was on the phone with my mom.
I can’t wait to see how it looks tomorrow…
Anyway, if you want to see some more pictures, including a nice close-up of a bowl of whole hops, click either the image above or this link and you’ll be taken to the Berry Ale album.
And now, bed!
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So today I was going to brew some beer, and I decided that the best way to dechlorinate my water would be to run it through an activated charcoal filter. Well, ~US$20 and a visit to Home Depot later, and I had what you see above. A 2000-gallon activated charcoal inline water filter for a fridge, garden hose connectors, and enough 1/4″ line to reach easily into the carboy / pot / whatever. It’s really easy to use, and I’d have to strongly suggest that anyone looking to filter their water before brewing do something similar. Or, if you just need a portable filter it works as well.
Now, off to keep this brew going! The water is just coming to a boil now…