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Posts tagged Project Management
We’re Now Live with Gentoo!
Feb 8th
Okay, so I broke down, and got myself that dedicated server. Good news is that I got a coupon code and got it for cheaper than I had thought! So now, we’re running live on a Gentoo Linux-powered dedicated server in some datacenter in Florida. Please note that the Subversion repositories are down, as is the Redmine project management. The Brew Place, and many things Vault Head Games, are also down for the time being. I would have probably gotten the repositories back online tonight before I threw in the towel, but ColdFusion was not being very nice to me and I had some problems in getting isolated instances of ColdFusion running with each Apache virtual host. Needless to say, the Adobe documentation when it comes to Linux is extremely poor. However, after I’m all done with this beast, we will have our own IRC server and a web server that will understand practically every modern, dynamic web language (including (but not limited to) PHP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, Python, and Ruby). I’m strapped with time, however, but regardless, I’m working very quickly to get everything back up and running, so check back here often for updates!
Server Downtimes Addressed
Nov 24th
It came to my attention over the weekend that the Apache webserver running on my server was down for approximately 4 hours on Saturday, and again for about an hour on Sunday. For some reason, Apache keeps receiving terminate signals and shuts down – but I cannot find any real reason behind it in the logs. The best guess I can make is that something is going on with Passenger (a.k.a. – mod_rails) with a spawned Ruby on Rails app, but since I love Redmine too much for SCM and project management I’m going to let this one slide.
Anyways, this problem has been addressed. I installed a process monitor on the server which checks running applications and daemons every minute to make sure they’re up to snuff. Should Apache crash, hang, or simply take up far too much memory it will be restarted. So far in the time since it was installed yesterday, it restarted Apache successfully when it was down this morning. Hopefully I will find a reason behind Apache’s sudden deaths soon so that I do not have to rely on the monit daemon simply to restart it.
