Plaidophile: Sorry about the outage

November 3, 2005

Sorry about the outage (meta)

by fluffy at 1:41 PM

I upgraded my server to OSX 10.4.3 this morning and didn't realize that the upgrade turned off the Postgres startup item, breaking basically everything on my site. It's turned back on now. Yay.

Also, somehow a version of php5 without Postgres support got installed. I wonder when that happened — how long has my site been down, anyway?! Because the last time I did any Postgres updating was several days ago. ~~So if you're reading this it's probably via the RSS feed, which isn't affected.~~ Finally I figured out what was causing the fixed version of mod_php to not be running, though. (PROTIP: Restart Apache to reload modules.) Grr.

6:55 PM Ah, I see that several people did tell me. At 1 PM. Via AIM. While I was at work, and not on AIM.

11/4/2005 Today's outage was because the system hosting my DNS went down for unknown reasons. I'm looking into setting up some redundant hosting.

Comments

#6657 11/04/2005 01:02 pm

hmm, i just assume that you're on the im if you're logged in. you should maybe hide yourself when you're not there?
-bill

#6659 11/04/2005 02:35 pm

I should automatically get set away when I'm not at my computer. Away means, you know, away.

#6764 11/17/2005 10:25 am

a lot of people i know set away when they're not really.... you know, whatever Smile

-bill