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Server Woes

Published by Will Chatham on 2/4/2005

So I just got my web server back in order after about 12 hours of problems. I ran some upgrades early this morning that borked the entire server.

It turns out something got misconfigured in lilo, the Linux boot loader, and it wouldn’t boot up after the upgrades. Once that was resolved, I had some problems with my root directory being full. After that, I learned that there was a PHP file that didn’t get upgraded, which took down all WordPress installations (me, chris, chris, lauren, etc). I finally got that resolved. Lastly, webmail started showing up in Arabic, and that was due to the same PHP problem.

I’m glad I got everything straightened out with no loss of data. Downtime stinks and is stressful when you have a bunch of clients hosted who rely on email and generate money off their sites every day, but it happens to the best of them.

Thanks for the patience of everyone.

New Kids on the Block

Published by Will Chatham on 1/22/2005

Let’s give a big welcome to Chris and Chris, two guys I work with, who recently started blogging at the urging of yours truly. It took a while for them to come around, but they finally saw the geek light, got their domain names, and established camp on the World Wide Web (on yours truly’s server).

Elsewhere, I heard the other day that the re-release of Speed, the first record by Crain, the band I was in back in 89-92, is ready to go. I set up a site for the occasion at CrainSpeed.com, where there will soon be some of the remastered tracks available for download. I am supposed to be getting some advanced copies of the discs soon. They put three unreleased songs on there too, and it allegedly sounds excellent!

And how about them Looeyville Cards?

Changing Directions (again)

Published by Will Chatham on 9/6/2004

First off, 5 unknown people and 1 I sorta know grabbed up the Gmail invitations. Congrats!

Second off (is that even a term?), I can now announce that this is my last week as the webmaster at Ingles. After 6 short and enjoyable months, I have been offered a position with a government contractor, working for the Air Force. I’m not sure how much more I should say yet, but it was too good to pass up. I will be developing a really cool web application with a co-worker whom I already know. I will provide more info when I can.