Status Update (15/03/09)

Hi All,

just a bit of information about the recent turbulence in regards to the website being offline at times, the servers being offline and requests not working etc.

We are moving a few of our servers around, one of our Shoutcast DNAS cluster boxes was recently re-imaged because it had a Beta Linux Kernel which became bugged. It has now been re-imaged to the latest stable release, as such a lot of services had to be re-configured/setup so I decided I'd take the time to create a Jail/Chroot environment for all the services.

We have now moved the IRC server and DNAS cluster into this environment, also one of the public Eggdrop configs.

I have still yet to install the FTP upload server. That will come hopefully soon.


In regards to the website etc, it has been moved to a new server. This box is more powerful than the old one and also has redundant hard-drives (RAID1).

I believe it was only a matter of time before the single drive in our old server failed and since ThePlanet did not want to give us a break after being with them for a number of years and would only offer an upgrade for $40/m for the RAID card and probably another $30-$40/m for an additional disk I thought it was time to move on.

So for a short period (or maybe not so short) the website and a few things like forums/scripts that were hard-coded or had hard-coded configurations broke because the paths have changed slightly. If you find any "issues" let me know.

As the weeks progress I hope to have more of the services migrated over to the new box.

At the moment a few things still need to be migrated, like another one of the DNAS clusters and the MySQL replication needs to be rebuilt for the new servers so that it has a local copy to handle requests etc.

Once the major parts are done, I'll look at the rest.


Also I am interested in getting the website re-done, as many of you know the website has been in a state of "half-design" for a long time now, I think it's better to just look at a solution like Joomla, so if you have any design skills let me know. Hopefully then we can get more activity.

Once all this is completed I will probably finally look at a memory leak in our back-end Eggdrop script which seems to slowly eat all my RAM on the server, need to narrow down what is causing it as there is a fair bit the script does.