TagsTagsOur highly trained team of mutant caffeine-addicted hamsters has been wrestling with server issues most of the day, but it looks like everything's straightened out now and running at full speed. Contrary to any crazy rumors you might have heard, our host, the Network Operations Center, and my own monitoring ...
Open Thread, Little Green Footballs, Web Server, Mutant Hamsters
With the new web server installed and configured, at peak traffic time today with more 3,000 visitors online, the load average never got above 0.87. Typical load average for that kind of activity with our previous, somewhat underpowered web server was in the neighborhood of 4 to 6. Big win. That’s ...
We’re still digging through our speedy new web server and finding things to edit or optimize; at the moment I’m trying to figure out why mod_deflate doesn’t want to compress our CSS and Javascript files, even though I’ve set Apache’s configuration file to (supposedly) compress everything but images and PDFs. ...
You may have noticed some downtime last night; it’s because we’ve finally switched over to that new high-powered web server we mentioned recently, and a few things needed tweaking. Here’s an open thread while we look for more loose ends. UPDATE at 12/3/08 9:50:20 am: There are lots of little things to ...
Well, not quite here, but it’s set up and ready to migrate everything over from the current one, the one that’s serving the page you’re reading right now. The old one is a dual core Xeon 3.0, the new one is a quad core Xeon 3.4 with hyperthreading, so the processor ...
Unlike the last one, here’s a tech note about something you will notice. Today we were trying to figure out why LGF was responding very slowly, even though traffic was not especially high. At first we suspected the new installation of Mint, but Mint is not the culprit. Digging around the web ...